Principal Maritime Civil Engineer

Locations: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness

Relocation supported: Not supported, but internal applications are welcome

Recruiter contact: Andrea Gaffney

Hiring manager contact: Mathew Ross

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20000 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 Buildings and Cities Unit (BLD) has a major presence in Mott Mac Donald’s regional offices throughout the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross‑sector skills across five key sectors:
Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation and Water. We also provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the Group in these sectors.

We are growing our regional maritime teams and are currently recruiting for a Principal Ports/ Maritime Engineer (Design Manager/Associate) to join our growing maritime team in Scotland and North East England, where we are providing advisory, project management, design and supervisory services to a range of private and public sector clients on a variety of ports and coastal projects. Recent and current projects include refurbishment and upgrade of linkspans, pier refurbishment works, breakwater works, STAG and OBC studies for new ferry terminals and ferries, long sea outfalls, cooling water intake and outfall systems and redevelopment of a former shipyard site, together with general port and coastal engineering.

In addition, across Mott Mac Donald we are growing and developing our maritime business on a global basis. As a result, there may be opportunities to provide input to projects in other regions.

Reporting to the unit Maritime Account Leader you will use your high standard of technical capability to deliver projects within the maritime sector and guide and develop other members of the team on technical aspects of projects. You will collaborate with colleagues in a constructive manner on projects, sharing knowledge freely. We have established a comprehensive set of quality, health and safety and environmental management procedures and you will conform to these procedures and act as a role model in their proper implementation.

In this role you will likely contribute to the delivery and/or management of multiple projects concurrently. You will plan your work in a structured manner using appropriate planning tools and collaborate with colleagues in addressing the peaks and troughs in resource demand, taking account of priorities on their projects as well as your own. Projects rarely go according to plan and you will track and monitor performance against baseline and work constructively to recover and bring projects to a successful outcome to meet or exceed targeted profit, deadlines and output quality.

You will contribute to bidding and winning work, using your knowledge of clients and understanding of the technical requirements and risks associated with prospects. As part of supporting business development initiatives, you will understand and define key selling points and added value within bids which will help to differentiate the service that Mott Mac Donald will offer. As part of the bidding process you will assist with the calculation of fees, taking account…