Graduate Building Physics Engineering Career Path

Start your career with a global, employee‑owned consultancy where your work can make a real difference. At Mott Mac Donald, you'll work alongside experts, contribute to meaningful projects, and have the support, learning opportunities, and experience needed to grow your career from day one.

Shape the Places Where People Thrive

At Mott Mac Donald, we believe the built environment has the power to improve lives, strengthen communities, and create a more sustainable future. As a Graduate Building Physics Engineer, you'll help shape buildings, neighbourhoods, and cities that are comfortable, resilient, energy‑efficient, and designed with people and the planet in mind.

Join our growing Engineering Sciences team and become part of a community of specialists who use the principles of physics to solve some of the most important challenges facing the built environment. From creating healthier, more comfortable spaces and supporting the transition to net zero carbon, to helping cities adapt to climate change, your work will contribute to projects that make a meaningful difference to society.

Our team is proud to have worked on projects ranging from the Royal College of Art Battersea South building to supporting the NHS and public sector organisations in developing net zero carbon strategies, helping create lasting positive outcomes for communities today and for future generations.

As a Graduate Building Physicist, you'll have the opportunity to develop your technical expertise while working alongside experienced specialists, designers, engineers, architects, and clients on a wide variety of exciting projects.

You'll be supported through structured learning, mentoring, and hands‑on project experience, gaining exposure to some of the latest digital tools and analytical techniques used to improve building performance and environmental outcomes.

From your first day, you'll be encouraged to contribute ideas, ask questions, and collaborate with colleagues who are passionate about sharing knowledge and helping others succeed.

As part of our inclusive and multidisciplinary Engineering Sciences team, you'll help deliver design and strategic advice that enables clients to make informed, sustainable decisions.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the thermal modelling of buildings at a range of scales to evaluate thermal comfort, visual comfort, energy performance, climate resilience, and carbon impacts.
• Helping design teams identify practical and innovative solutions that improve building performance and user wellbeing.
• Assisting with qualitative building performance assessments during the early stages of design, providing valuable insights that influence key project decisions.
• Developing parametric modelling studies to support low‑carbon and net zero design strategies at building, campus, and masterplan scales.
• Supporting computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling to understand airflow and wind behaviour around buildings and urban environments.
• Contributing to studies that assess urban heat island effects and support the adaptation of cities and communities to future climate challenges.
• Working collaboratively with architects, engineers, planners, sustainability consultants, and stakeholders to develop integrated and impactful design solutions.
• Supporting senior team members in delivering projects across a diverse range of sectors and scales.

Buildings and cities are responsible for a significant proportion of energy use and carbon emissions globally. The decisions made during the design process have lasting consequences for occupants, communities, and the environment.

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