Location/s: Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds, Edinburgh, Glasgow & Inverness; UK
Recruiter contact: Nicola Coyle
Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.
About the Water Utilities Division
The Water Utilities Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to the UK and Ireland’s water and wastewater challenges. We provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle from advisory to detailed design.
Overview of the role
Senior civil engineer (design engineer) positions within the multidisciplinary Water Division. Projects cover water treatment, water distribution, wastewater drainage and recycling, desalination and more. Clients include UK water utility companies and other organisations in the UK and abroad. The role spans feasibility studies through detailed design, construction support and commissioning.
Responsibilities
- Working across multiple UK and Ireland water companies
- Being part of multi-disciplinary design teams in project delivery
- Delivering excellence every day
- Preparing design submissions to ensure compliance with contract requirements
- Undertaking studies, concept, preliminary and detailed design
- Interfacing and liaising with clients and other stakeholders
Candidate specification
Essential
- Civil Engineering degree or other relevant degree
- Chartered or near chartered status (ICE or equivalent)
- Water and/or wastewater engineering design experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Understanding of the importance of prioritising health, safety and environmental issues
- Proactive approach, with an ability to adapt to changing scenarios
Desirable
- Strong digital capability (e.g. Civils 3D, GIS, Pipeline hydraulics software)
- Contributed towards the identification and development of low carbon solutions
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.
Benefits
Financial wellbeing
- We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
- Life assurance equal up to 4 × your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 × 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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