Job Description
We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy. \nOur purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities. \n\nA fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs. \n\nMott MacDonald\n\nPosition location: Manchester & Liverpool\nRecruiter contact: Nikki George\n\nWe’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy. \nOur purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities. \n\nA fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs. \n\nWe are proud to be a one of to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a in the UK.\n\nOur values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence. \n\nAbout the division \n\nThe Water Consultancy Division is Mott MacDonald’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. \n\nDo you want to use your experience to make an impact?
At Mott MacDonald we support all leadership potential, creating high-performing teams with a flatter hierarchy that fosters more autonomy and greater employee engagement. We understand that development never stops. Our leaders have a vision of who they want to be and a strategy to take them there.
As a company with a fully independent ownership, we're proud to be stewards of our business. We embed real leadership behaviours and the business priorities they serve, and believe transparency and openness make us agile and adaptable. So bring your expertise to a company looking for acknowledged and emerging leaders, where your professional journey can take a wide variety of forms.
Driven by you and supported by us. \n\nOverview of role\n\nMott MacDonald is a market leader in the UK water sector, being a key supplier to major water companies and delivering a wide variety of engineering and advisory projects in support to the challenges faced by the sector. Our Water Consultancy Division has ambitious growth plans in line with AMP8 investment needs and we are proud of our strong reputation in the industry which is allowing us to expand our business.
Having been appointed to a large UK water consultancy framework in 2024, we are looking for a Senior Associate Mechanical Engineer to support the delivery of our water and wastewater programmes.\n\nYou will have the opportunity to steer the technical direction of discipline related activities, working closely with our client and our other discipline leads. You will own the technical quality of the deliverables created by engineers/consultants and manage technical problem solving. You will also be expected to hold a key relationship with equivalent discipline leads for the client, leveraging this to help resolve technical issues and blockers.
The scale of investment required in AMP8 is both a significant challenge but a major opportunity to provide a long-lasting legacy to our client and their region. It also requires new more efficient ways of delivering our services and for the successful candidate to demonstrate their ability to identify and implement innovations that maintain delivery to programme and commercial targets.\n\nKey elements of the role will include taking a lead on and managing the following activities:\n\nProvide technical mechanical expertise across our programmes of water and wastewater engineering. \nPerform feasibility, outline, and detailed mechanical design. \nAccountable for checking and the overall technical quality of the deliverables created by the mechanical team. \nWork closely with other disciplines, contributing to deliverables including, for example, technical reports, drawings, models, plant and equipment specifications, schedules, design risk assessments, and cost and program estimates.
\nDevelop and nurture sound relationships with our clients. \nCo-ordinate mechanical resources across the framework alongside resource managers, project managers and project technical leads. \nLine manage, track and encourage the continuous development of mechanical discipline staff.
\nThe role is expected to develop and evolve in line with the framework requirements and the candidates’ own skills and development areas. It also offers the opportunity to develop the next generation of talent within our business.\n\nCandidate specification\n\nWe are looking for someone who is keen to make a difference in the sector, take wide responsibilities and progress professionally.\n \nRequired skills and experience:\n\nChartered Status (CEng) with a recognised professional Institution. \nProven ability to lead a portfolio of technical projects, ensuring compliance with relevant quality assurance and technical standards and supporting the development of less experienced staff.
\nExperience in multi-disciplinary feasibility, outline, and detailed design within the UK water sector. \nStrong communication skills with experience in effective collaboration across internal multi-disciplinary teams with other technical disciplines. \nA drive to be abreast of professional development and knowledge of current and emerging technical solutions. \nDesire to take a leading role with client engagement on mechanical engineering needs in the UK.
\nGood understanding of designers’ responsibilities under CDM. \nFlexibility to travel regularly for client meetings. \n\nDesired skills and experience:\n\nExperience with NEC PS contracts.
\nProven project management experience. \nUK water sector experience in delivering programme of works. \nIf you meet most of these requirements, we would like to hear from you.
We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.\n\n#LI - NG\n\nUK Immigration\n\nMott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK.
This decision is as 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.\n\nEquality, diversity, and inclusion \n\nWe 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.\n\nAccessibility \n\nWe 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 and we will talk to you about how we can support you.\n\nAgile working \n\nHappy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.\n\nWe offer some fantastic benefits including:\n\nHealth and wellbeing\n\nPrivate medical insurance for all UK colleagues. \nHealth cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments. \nAccess to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
\nA variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family. \nAbility to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too. Financial wellbeing\n\nWe match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
\nLife assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary. \nOur income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury. \nFlexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
\nAs an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes. Lifestyle \n\nA minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme. \nHoliday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
\nVariety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers. Enhanced family and carers leave\n\nEnhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave. \nOur shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
\nUp to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid. Learning and development\n\nPrimary annual professional institution subscription. \nA broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
Networks, communities, and social outcomes\n\nJoin a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities. \nMake a difference within our communities through our. Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click #LI-NC1