Location
Southampton, Croydon, Liverpool, Newcastle, Bristol; UK
Recruiter contact
Ainsley Anstess
Overview
Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees. We advise a broad range of clients on the planning, design and construction of coastal and offshore infrastructure across an array of sizes and types, from the Caribbean to the UK. As a key member of the Ports, Coastal and Offshore (PCO) team, the Principal Coastal Scientist will lead projects focused on coastal resilience, climate adaptation and marine ecosystem management. The successful candidate will bring expertise in coastal processes, shoreline management and evidence‑based decision‑making to guide multidisciplinary teams, inform policy and business case efforts, mentor junior staff and support business development and bidding.
Candidate Specification
Essential qualifications
- Master’s degree in Coastal Science, Oceanography, or a related field
- Experience in Coastal Management in a consultancy environment
- Demonstrated project leadership
- Strong written communication skills and comfort writing reports and delivering presentations
- Familiarity with climate adaptation planning and policy
- Experience in business development, including client liaison and bid preparation
- Chartered with a relevant professional institution such as CIWEM (or equivalent working experience)
- Proficiency in GIS, and knowledge/experience of remote sensing and coastal modelling tools such as Delft3D, SWAN, ADCIRC (advantageous)
Desirable qualifications
- Willingness to travel overseas for project assignments when required
- Strong project management skills, comfortable networking and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, and ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders
Benefits
Health and Wellbeing
- Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues
- Health cash plan to support everyday health costs and treatments
- Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts
- Comprehensive wellbeing programme, including support for you and your family
- Flexibility to adjust salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family
Financial Wellbeing
- We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%
- Life assurance equal up to 4× your basic salary, with the option to increase cover to 6× your salary
- Income protection scheme providing a financial benefit, 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 wills writing
- Independent business shares in annual bonus schemes
Lifestyle
- Minimum of 33‑35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays; the option to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme
- Holiday entitlement increases 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
- Shared parental leave matches maternity leave, paying up to 24 weeks at full pay
- Up to five additional days leave for significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid
Learning and Development
- Primary annual professional institution subscription
- Opportunities to enhance technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training and self‑development options
Networks, Communities and Social Outcomes
- Access to advanced employee networks supporting LGBTQ+, gender, race, ethnicity, disability and parent/carer communities
- Opportunities to make a difference within communities through social outcomes initiatives
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.
Work Flexibility
This role is available as part‑time, job share or full‑time to accommodate varied working needs.
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