Principal Consultant - Regulatory Technical Assurance

Principal Consultant - Regulatory Technical Assurance

Brighton, United Kingdom / London, United Kingdom / Cambridge, United Kingdom / Leeds, United Kingdom / Reading, United Kingdom / Cardiff, United Kingdom / Manchester, United Kingdom / Bristol, United Kingdom

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 Water Utilities Division is Mott Mac Donald’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.

The Asset Management and Infrastructure Planning team is one of five sub‑sectors within our Water Utilities Division, which employs around 350 people across the UK. We have an exciting opportunity in our Technical Assurance workstream for a senior role. As a Senior Professional for Assurance, you will be at the heart of our assurance delivery for Clients, with contributions to our delivery capability.

Reporting directly to the Workstream Lead, you will be an important part of our Assurance Team and the wider asset management practice community.

We work in the water sector and with other infrastructure providers both in the UK and internationally in the following workstream areas:

• Technical assurance of statutory regulatory submissions such as annual performance reporting, business cases and business plans, long term strategic plans, operational performance and deliverables
• Wastewater and bioresources investment planning
• Strategic asset management and business planning
• Carbon and net zero appraisal and strategic planning
• Integrated systems management
• Data analytics and decision support tools

• Regulatory technical assurance experience linked to the water industry's AMP cycles
• Academic and professional qualifications, with relevant skills and experience
• Background of engineering, accounting/economics, asset management, auditing and technical assurance of statutory regulatory submissions such as annual performance reporting, business cases and business plans, long term strategic plans and deliverables
• Skills in asset management ISO standards and requirements, technical audits, the assessment of regulatory requirements and impacts on service outputs, service metrics, performance commitments and the associated base and enhancement schemes
• Experience of delivering technical assurance work with the constraints of regulatory submission timescales
• Membership of a professional body and/or water regulatory networks
• Capable of presenting assurance findings in a clear and understandable manner through formal and information presentations and assurance reports
• Skills to adapt to changing situations and environments and to respond quickly and proactively to emerging…