Location
Belfast, UK
Recruiter Contact
Will Bates
Role Overview
As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, your role will include assessing and understanding project requirements, undertaking mechanical design across a number of disciplines and agreeing timescales and specifications with design teams, clients and managers. Leading and directing junior staff, you will be actively involved in the preparation of documents, reports and health and safety risk assessments as well as interpreting commercial and/or contractual aspects of correspondence with or between fellow professionals on multidisciplinary projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing the delivery of assigned mechanical and building services elements of multidisciplinary projects across a range of sectors including Built Environment, Water, Transport, and Advisory.
- Working and liaising with associated engineering disciplines as part of delivering projects.
- Dealing with and managing internal and external stakeholders.
- Carrying out design and calculation work using relevant industry software (IES, Revit etc).
- Demonstrating technical expertise, providing in depth knowledge whilst proactively coaching and developing more junior team members.
- Developing, maintaining and monitoring programmes for scheduling and reporting on deliverables across specific projects.
- Maximising profitability of projects, monitoring against budget, reacting and anticipating potential problems and communicating in line with client expectations.
Areas of Expertise
- Mechanical building services design with experience in a number of the following areas:
- Healthcare
- Education
- Industrial/Pharma
- Food Processing
- Transportation
- Water/Wastewater
- Steam, Condensate and associated equipment
- Low Pressure / Low Temperature Hot Water
- Chilled Water and associated equipment
- Domestic hot and cold water systems for both commercial and industrial projects
- Public health systems
- Vacuum systems and associated equipment
- Fuel gas systems
- Fuel oil systems
- Process/plant water
- Reverse Osmosis (RO) Water
- Medical gases
- Natural Ventilation systems
- HVAC systems
- Refrigeration
- Specialist extract systems
- BMS (Building Management Systems) and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems
- Instrumentation, Control and Automation systems
- Services co‑ordination and integration of plant and equipment in buildings and for underground services
- BIM, AutoCAD and Revit
- Site experience an advantage
Candidate Specification
- Essential:
- B.Eng / M.Eng
- Chartered Engineer
- Have experience of leading on Mechanical services and some multidisciplinary projects
- Have experience of mentoring and leading graduate engineers
- Be enthusiastic and ambitious
- Possess excellent communication skills, including report writing and presentation
- Have the ability to lead electrical elements of one large project or a portfolio of smaller projects
- Have some experience of managing client relationships and expectations as there will be a requirement to attend Client Facing meetings via Teams
UK Immigration
Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is 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.
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.
Benefits
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 everyday 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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