Civil Engineer

Locations: Glasgow, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Altrincham, York, Bristol, Cardiff, Brighton, Southampton

Recruiter contact: Cassidy Browne

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

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The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across several sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension. Together with our clients, we’re helping to deliver the energy transition globally.

Our office‑based department provides Civil and Structural expertise across Substation, HVDC Converter Station, Overhead Line, and Cable projects. We are looking for a Civil/Structural Engineer with minimum five to eight years of experience to join our Digital Award winning High Voltage (HV) Civil and Structural Team based in Genova, Italy, Madrid, Spain or Belgrade, Serbia. The role will span a diverse portfolio of work and there will be opportunities for advancement within the team.

• Design and Development functions:
• Project Management.
• Proposal Writing.
• Scheme Costing.
• Front End Engineering Design (FEED).
• Preparation of drawings for use in planning applications and tender packages.
• Detailed Civil/Structural Design.
• Cable Routing Design.
• Design Coordination across multidisciplinary teams.
• Preparation of Specifications.
• Condition and Structural Assessment of existing structures to determine suitability for reuse.
• Design Assurance functions:
• Civil and structural review of designs
• Provide technical support to clients on project issues.
• Attend design and interface meetings with clients and stakeholders.
• Proposal writing.
• Project Management and coordination across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Provide authorization for commissioning settings and design assurance for Electricity Transmission Assets if authorised.

• Willingness to engage with new challenges as well as an ability to work confidently on tasks for which they have prior experience.
• Demonstrate good written communication skills including report writing.
• Excellent communication and people skills. You will be in a client facing role and will be expected to liaise with clients and contractors both on‑site and over the phone.
• Degree in Civil or Structural engineering. They should also be a Chartered Engineer or be working towards applying chartership now.
• Prepared to undertake leadership role and assist in further development of the team.
• Previous experience as an Engineer working with Transmission and Distribution (T&D) Networks in high voltage substations and cable routing projects.
• Detailed knowledge of construction health and safety regulations and preferably, although not essential, knowledge of transmission network operator’s construction practices.
• Experience of Civil/structural engineering applied to converter stations would be an advantage. Including awareness of process, equipment layout and associated considerations such as RFI and fire protection.

Although the central team is mainly UK based, we regularly…