Project Leader

Job Overview

Internal applicants are welcome. Mott Mac Donald Bentley is a fully integrated design and build business that combines design expertise with contracting experience.

• Be part of a unique and dynamic Design-and-Build environment?
• Project manage the design of water and wastewater projects?
• Fast track your Chartership and attain a clear route for career progression?
• Be a member of a multi-disciplinary project team, supporting both your and the team's personal and professional development?
• Have the flexibility of working from home, office and site?
• Have the opportunity to see your designs brought to life?

• Work as part of a "project triangle" alongside a Site Manager and Quantity Surveyor to consider technical, constructability and commercial aspects of delivery.
• Lead the design of treatment or infrastructure projects from the initial outline to detailed design, through construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Coordinate the project team including civil, electrical, mechanical and process designers, BIM modelers and technical specialists to ensure designs are completed on programme, within budget, and to the quality defined by each framework and industry specifications.
• Undertake design in own discipline and mentor less experienced colleagues where appropriate.
• Build positive relationships with the client’s project, operational and technical assurance teams and promote a "one-team" approach.

• Accredited Degree in Civil Engineering.
• Incorporated Member of Engineering Institution.
• Outline and detailed design experience of water or wastewater projects.
• Knowledge of the Designer or Principal Designer duties under CDM 2015.

• Financial wellbeing: MMB match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%; annual bonus scheme; payment of annual professional institution subscription costs.
• Health and wellbeing:
  Minimum of 33 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays, with the ability to buy, sell or carry over annual leave; access to life assurance, private medical insurance, critical illness insurance and health screening options.
• Flexible working:
  Open discussion about flexible working and support for responsibilities beyond the workplace.
• Inclusive communities:
  Join a wide range of groups including Advanced Employee Networks supporting LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.

Mott Mac Donald Bentley 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 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.

We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment practices are barrier‑free and as inclusive as possible. This includes making adjustments during the job application process and throughout your future career with us. Please call or email  to discuss any adjustments we can make. You can read more about our Equal Opportunities Policy at Integrity, diversity and inclusion – Mott Mac Donald.