Materials Engineer

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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.

We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. From preparing the business case and advising on related issues - such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation - to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.

We are looking for a motivated, proactive Materials Engineer to join our Special Services team in our Heavy Civil Infrastructure Division. You will be working with other Materials, Civil and Structural Engineers within a diverse and highly skilled specialist team. You will be working on unique, technically demanding projects across a range of sectors. This will involve addressing technical queries, preparing durability assessments for new structures including durability modelling, writing specifications, conducting on-site inspections and investigations of structures, reviewing available data, developing remedial and maintenance options, solving technical problems and providing sustainable solutions for colleagues and clients.

You will need the capability and willingness to take responsibility for interacting directly with clients and ensuring that their needs are met by efficiently producing high quality project deliverables on time and to budget.

You’ll work with experienced engineers who will support you in managing your work and help you to ensure that work is carried out to a high standard and following necessary quality, environmental and safety requirements. You will work on a variety of projects of various sizes and across different project stages. You will share your skills and knowledge across the team as well as develop knowledge from other disciplines when necessary.

Additionally, you will develop and strengthen your skills to be involved in more specialist areas such as developing state-of-the-art models to simulate the behaviour of different construction material properties exposed to selected environments.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Preparing durability assessments which involves identifying potential and actual deterioration mechanisms of construction products and structural materials in service and developing solutions to ensure design life is achieved
• Providing general advice, detailed technical input or developing innovative and sustainable solutions for both internal and external clients
• Ensuring deliverables meet project requirements, including managing internal/ external client…