Water Major Projects - Principal Civil Engineer

Location/s: Cambridge, Reading, Belfast or Leeds; UK
Recruiter contact: Laura Easdon

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

The Water Consultancy Division is Mott Mac Donald’s centre of excellence for responding to water and wastewater challenges, offering fantastic opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations and protecting our environment. Our multi‑disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies, through outline and detailed design, to construction support and site supervision.

Due to significant growth and future market opportunities within our Water Consultancy Division, we are looking to establish and grow a Front‑end Engineering Delivery team focussed on the leadership, management and engineering delivery of major water projects. This will include the UK water company Strategic Resource Options and major schemes working on flood and coastal risk management, navigation and water land and biodiversity assets and across the hydropower market.

Front‑end Engineering is expected to include feasibility, concept and outline design stages.

We are looking for a Principal Civil Engineer to lead teams to deliver front‑end engineering across a large range of complex multi‑disciplinary engineering projects, including water major projects. In this role you will also help with our people management function and mentoring of our water team capability across the region. Your work will ensure that our technical delivery performance meets the expectations of both our clients and our internal focus on technical excellence, and contribute to winning proposals.

• Lead multi‑disciplinary design teams in project delivery
• Support technical excellence activities through digital innovation, sharing best practice and implementing robust QA procedures
• Contribute to our commercial success through forecasting and risk management, and the production of bids and proposals
• Work to Mott Mac Donald’s global standards and review Health, Safety and Welfare alongside environmental impact
• Review design submissions to ensure compliance with contract requirements
• Conduct discipline checker role on standard outputs
• Interfacing and liaising with clients and other stakeholders
• Mentoring and contributing to the development of junior staff
• Working with resource leads to coordinate project resources and grow and develop our capability through recruitment and training
• Business development including providing specialist support to our Account Leaders and Practices and leading on proposals and tenders in the water and wastewater fields

We are seeking a driven individual with a passion for finding solutions that meet environmental and cost drivers whilst delivering excellent customer outputs.

Essential

• Chartered engineer with relevant technical degree
• Experience of leading engineering design and/or multi‑disciplinary design teams on water or wastewater projects in the UK and Ireland water market
• Front‑end major projects experience
• Solid knowledge of water or wastewater specifications and standards
• A team leader capable of managing and motivating individuals to consistently deliver
• Commercial awareness, delivering cost‑effective solutions within time and cost constraints
• Strong communication skills to interact with other disciplines and clients, and to develop and promote the team
• Willingness to contribute to and develop technical knowledge networks
• A drive to keep abreast of professional development and knowledge of current and emerging technical solutions
• Proactive approach, with an ability to adapt to changing scenarios

Desirable

• Experience of complex, multi‑disciplinary engineering projects
• Experience or canals or flood defence projects
• Good understanding of designers' responsibilities under CDM
• Strong digital capability (e.g. Civils 3D, GIS, hydraulic modelling…