Location/s: Edinburgh, Glasgow & Inverness; UK
Relocation supported: Not supported, but internal applications are welcome
Recruiter contact: Maria Cervantes
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 incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.
Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.
About the business division
The Water Utilities Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to the UK and Ireland's water and wastewater challenges. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations, preventing urban flooding, and improving the health of our rivers and coastal environments. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies to outline and detailed design. Together, we deliver best-in-class solutions to our clients while offering diverse and technically stimulating opportunities to our people.
Overview of the role
Due to sustained framework successes, we have opportunities for Senior Civil Engineers within our multidisciplinary Water Utilities Division. This is a design-focused role, primarily supporting the delivery of outline and detailed design for water and wastewater projects across major UK water frameworks. You will work as part of integrated design teams to develop practical, buildable and efficient engineering solutions that help improve water infrastructure and environmental performance. We work on a range of design projects covering, for example:
- Water treatment
- Water distribution
- Wastewater networks
- Wastewater treatment / recycling
- Storm overflow upgrades
The role will involve taking projects from feasibility design into outline and detailed design, producing and coordinating design drawings, calculations, specifications, schedules and supporting technical documentation. You will help manage design interfaces, contribute to buildability reviews, support technical assurance and provide technical input during construction where required. This is an opportunity to develop your technical leadership capability while working on varied, high-profile water sector projects with colleagues across our UK and global business. Our clients include the majority of UK water utility companies, as well as governmental organisations and private companies in the UK and overseas.
In this role you will be responsible for:
- Delivering outline and detailed civil engineering design for water and wastewater projects, with a main focus on United Utilities and other UK water clients
- Preparing and coordinating design deliverables, including calculations, drawings, specifications, schedules, technical reports and design submissions
- Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, including hydraulic, process, mechanical, electrical, environmental and construction specialists
- Managing design interfaces, resolving technical issues and helping ensure designs are practical, safe, buildable and efficient
- Supporting technical assurance, including checking and reviewing design information in line with project and client requirements
- Mentoring and supporting junior engineers and technicians, helping them develop their technical capability
- Engaging confidently with clients, contractors and stakeholders to support successful project delivery and build strong working relationships
You will work in close partnership with clients and contractors, building trusted relationships and helping strengthen Mott MacDonald’s reputation for high-quality, collaborative design delivery.
Candidate specification
We are looking for someone who enjoys solving practical engineering problems, working collaboratively and developing designs that can be confidently taken forward into construction.
Essential:
- Civil Engineering degree or other relevant degree
- Chartered or near chartered status (ICE or equivalent)
- Water and/or wastewater engineering OR infrastructure engineering design experience, ideally including outline and detailed design deliverables
- Experience preparing or reviewing engineering calculations, drawings, specifications, reports or design submissions
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Understanding of the importance of prioritising health, safety, and environmental issues
- Proactive approach, with the ability to adapt to changing project requirements and work collaboratively across design teams
- Awareness of construction issues affecting design and being confident in developing solutions in collaboration with Client delivery partners.
Desirable
- Strong digital capability (e.g. Civils 3D, GIS)
- Contributed towards the identification and development of low carbon solutions
- Knowledge of CDM and especially duties of Designers and Principal Designers
- Knowledge of contractual arrangements and commercial processes
UK Immigration
Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.
Agile working
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.
Accessibility
We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.
We offer some fantastic benefits including:
Financial wellbeing
- We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
- Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
- Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
- Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
- As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
Employee Ownership
- Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
- Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
- As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
- Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
- For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.
Health and wellbeing
- Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
- Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
- Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
- A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
- Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
Lifestyle
- A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
- Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
- Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
Enhanced family and carers leave
- Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
- Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
- Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
Learning and development
- Primary annual professional institution subscription.
- A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
Networks, communities, and social outcomes
- Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
- Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.
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