Principal​/Senior Associate Façade Engineer

Location/s:
London, UK
Recruiter contact:
Andrea Gaffney

Mott Mac Donald is seeking a Principal / Senior Associate Façade Engineer to join a growing London team and help deliver a wide variety of façade projects. The role offers exposure to everything from investigative surveys and defect assessments to large-scale new-build developments.

The ideal candidate will combine strong technical expertise with the ability to communicate effectively with clients and project teams. You will be involved in coordinating design activities, resolving technical challenges and delivering practical engineering solutions. This is an excellent opportunity to become part of a supportive and dynamic team and to contribute to the ongoing growth of a broader building engineering business.

• Lead and deliver façade projects in a technically competent and timely manner
• Provide technical façade engineering advice to various stakeholders
• Develop façade documentation and specifications to a high level of quality
• Review specialist contractor submissions
• Assist in the growth of the façade business, contribute to bid writing and the winning of work
• Foster and maintain strong client relationships with new and existing clients, architects and contractors
• Supervision and mentoring of other design staff, checking and approving documentation for issue

Essential:

• Chartered Engineer with Bachelor’s degree in civil/structural engineering or significant experience from within the façade industry
• Significant experience within façade design with particular emphasis on the structural aspects of façade design, durability, material selection, and design for weather tightness
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including report preparation
• Commercially aware with the ability to successfully lead façade projects through all phases whilst managing and developing strong client relationships
• Be a self-motivated, enthusiastic and team focused individual able to collaborate in multi-discipline environment to successfully deliver Mott Mac Donald façade projects

Mott Mac Donald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

At Mott Mac Donald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reaso and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long‑term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

• Our employee ownership model means no external…