Senior Ports Engineer

Overview

Locations: Liverpool, Newcastle, Croydon, Bristol, Southampton
Recruiter contact: Ainsley Anstess

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.

Mott Mac Donald is one of the global leaders advising a broad range of clients across all types of infrastructure, and at all stages in the project cycle, striving to exceed expectations in the most innovative and sustainable solutions.

It’s an exciting time for our Ports Coastal and Offshore team with major project success and workload growth. Join our experts and you’ll be involved in multi-disciplinary teams for the planning, science, engineering, and implementation of all types of ports projects including container, ro-ro and energy terminals in locations such as the US and Canada, The Bahamas, Dominican Republic and Senegal, as well as the UK.

Specialist areas include metocean and hydrodynamic investigations, port master planning, feasibility assessments and FEED, to detailed design, D&B, construction documentation and site supervision. We are pioneering the use of digital, carbon and positive social outcomes appraisal to provide clients with optimum solutions.

As a key member of the PCO team, you will have a major input and influence on our maritime projects by contributing to successful technical outcomes. Depending on your skills and interest you may have project management responsibilities such as resourcing, programming and dealing with commercial and contract matters as well as overseeing risk and quality, and the procurement process. You will support new business development initiatives to facilitate further growth of our PCO Account.

You will be supported to develop your career aspirations and you’ll also mentor other members of the PCO team to help progress their development.

We are looking for flexible and motivated team members with a genuine passion and a desire to make a difference in the maritime world, with the following characteristics:

• Methodical approach to problem solving
• Ability to use your initiative to undertake tasks efficiently and independently.
• Excellent verbal communication skills, which allow you to confidently liaise with clients and other team members, and enjoy building relationship networks
• Excellent written communication and attention to detail and be able to demonstrate accurate technical analysis and good report writing.
• You will be chartered through a relevant professional institution and be able to demonstrate your experience in successfully delivering ports projects using innovative and digitally driven techniques.

As we want the best people for the role, its available as part time, job share or full time. This is because we…