Technical Principal ​/ Director Energy Environment

Location/s:

UK-wide

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

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you're surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.

Whatever your ambition, Mott Mac Donald is where people come to be brilliant.

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.

Mott Mac Donald's energy environment and social team is at the leading edge of delivering environmental services for energy projects. We pride ourselves on the working relationship between our engineering and environmental colleagues operating a ‘one team' approach to maximise benefits for our clients.

We're looking for a Technical Principal or Technical Director level environmental consultant to join our energy team and play an important role in ambitious growth.

The focus of the role will be providing environmental and consenting technical direction for a range of projects primarily in the energy network sectors, but also nuclear and renewables. These could include grid connections and large scale transmission and distribution and pipeline projects. The role will also require leading business development activities through engagement with key clients and bidding for new prospects.

Key elements of the role will include:

• Leading the environment and consent team for large linear projects in the energy sector
• Working closely with our engineering colleagues as part of consent led teams to ensure environmental considerations are made during project development
• Supporting contractors meet environmental requirements
• Providing leadership and guidance for project teams and technically assuring deliverables
• Directing projects
• Building relationships with clients
• Managing sub-consultants
• Responsibility for approving technical and commercial aspects of proposals
• Playing a key role in the delivery of teams business plan and growth strategy
• Travel

You'd be part of a truly multidisciplinary team; working alongside some of the best environmental specialists, social specialists and engineers in the industry.

• Fluent in English
• Degree and Masters qualified in an environmental subject
• Led DCO applications and permitting for UK energy projects such as transmission and distribution, solar, hydro, wind, and thermal generation technologies
• Extensive experience in developing client relationships and preparing proposals for new project opportunities
• Understanding of the technical aspects of energy projects
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and writing skills
• Experience of providing support and guidance to junior members of staff
• Able to work within a team and motivate others to deliver to high standards
• Able to meet challenging budgets and timescales
• A high standard in an environmental specialism and a broader awareness of other environmental or social disciplines
• Experience of options appraisals and iterative design processes

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon…