Overview

Job Description

Location/s: London, UK

Recruiter contact: Christopher Raybould

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across diverse industries, delivering work that defines our future and makes a societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance; we succeed when they do. There are opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, with a culture that values excellence and inclusion. As an employee-owned business, we invest in creating a space where everyone can feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the business unit

The Buildings Unit (BLD) has a major presence in Mott MacDonald\'s regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross‑sector skills across five key Sectors: Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation, and Water. We provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the Group in these sectors.

Overview of the role

We are recruiting an Associate Civil Engineer to join our busy Infrastructure team in London, working on a variety of projects for a diverse range of clients and sectors. The right candidate will combine managerial and technical responsibilities, promote a cooperative approach, and inspire teams to deliver projects to quality, budget, and timescales. You will be offered, and expected to take on, a high degree of autonomy and responsibility and contribute to growing the Infrastructure team\'s profile through successful project delivery and participation in business development. The role offers opportunities to develop skills and progress within a team of innovative engineers and specialists.

Candidate specification

You will be responsible for managing projects and multi-disciplinary design teams, producing and assuring designs, controlling task budgets, and developing staff competencies and career paths. You will also support our Practices in business development activities and take responsibility for developing commercial and technical responses to new opportunities. The successful candidate will be professionally qualified with an engineering institution (ICE, CIHT, PW|, etc.).

The following experience is required:

• Early-stage optioneering
• Understanding of all stages of design (Feasibility through Detailed Design)
• Experience leading infrastructure schemes through feasibility, concept design, detailed design, construction, commissioning, operations, etc.
• Project management (procurement, requirements, technical assurance, risk)
• Awareness of Health & Safety legislation and CDM Regulations and how they apply to the design process

The candidate should demonstrate practical skills in the following areas:

• Project management of multi-disciplinary projects from bidding to delivery against contracted cost and programme
• Excellent communication skills and client-facing experience
• Experience working on UK public sector infrastructure projects
• Infrastructure design experience with the ability to independently check and approve the work of others
• Experience using Digital Design Tools for deliverables including BIM

The following would be beneficial but are not essential:

• Technical excellence with coaching, mentoring, and developing people and teams
• Experience with UK public sector infrastructure projects
• Knowledge of contract preparation, procurement and risk management
• Appreciation of operational and maintenance impacts of design solutions

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. is not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. Applications from candidates eligible for alternative immigration routes that do not require sponsorship are welcomed.

Agile working

We offer a hybrid working policy that supports effective work for client, team, and personal commitments.

Equality, accessibility, and inclusion

We are committed to equality and inclusion, promoting fair employment procedures and equal opportunities. We encourage individual expression and strive to create an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute. If you need support to apply or attend an interview, please contact reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com for assistance.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits including health and wellbeing, financial wellbeing, lifestyle, enhanced family and carers leave, learning and development, and networks and communities. Specific benefits include:

• Health and wellbeing: private medical insurance, health cash plan, wellbeing program, and flexible benefits for health-related options
• Financial wellbeing: pension contributions matching, life assurance, income protection, flexible benefits, and annual bonus schemes
• Lifestyle: generous holiday entitlement, savings schemes, and retailer discounts
• Enhanced family and carers leave: paid maternity/adoption leave, shared parental leave, and caring responsibilities leave
• Learning and development: professional subscription and opportunities for mentoring, training, and self-development
• Networks and communities: access to employee networks and social impact opportunities

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