Principal Civil Engineer - Digital in Croydon

Mott MacDonald 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.

About the business unit

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.

Overview of role

You’ll be a senior member of the team, leading the growth and development of our Information Management capability within the Birmingham office. You’ll be responsible for growth targets, pipeline of work, training and development of the team while promoting the capability and service offering of the Information Management account. The Information Management account is a team of 40+ digital consultants driving digital transformation on all our major projects, mostly based in Croydon and London with aspirations of increasing our footprint. Outside of the leadership responsibilities, you’ll act as project lead driving digital transformation on major infrastructure projects. You will be involved with the development of strategies, planning of processes and implementation of tools to improve major project delivery. Sometimes this might be working directly with our clients, other times this might be supporting our internal delivery projects. You will be an advocate for digital ways of working, a promoter of good information management and comfortable working closely with our clients to share our experience.

Responsibilities

• Successful management of the client relationship, managing feedback, managing scope change and client expectations
• Responsible for ensuring that projects are delivered successfully for the client and for Mott MacDonald, technically, commercially, and financially
• Growth and development of the Birmingham team
• Leading the technical delivery of consultancy services
• Delivery of a programme of technical solutions as agreed with the client
• Compliance with the Mott MacDonald management, quality, safety and environmental system requirements
• Coordinate and manage contract requirements (industry standard & bespoke contracts)
• Identification and management of the project delivery teams
• Maintaining knowledge of the latest industry and company best practice in digitally‑enabled project delivery

Candidate specification

• A degree in Civil/Structural Engineering (or equivalent)
• Experience project managing multi‑disciplinary projects, ideally within transport and using the ISO 19650 suite of standards
• Appetite and experience of management, growth and development of teams
• Familiarity with industry standard tools and technologies used during the delivery phase
• Strong communication, team working and problem‑solving skills
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, 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.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We put equality 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.

Benefits

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues
• Health cash plan to support you with everyday health costs and treatments
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues
• Wide range of wellbeing support available through our comprehensive wellbeing programme, including support for you and your family
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family
• Financial wellbeing: we match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%
• Life assurance up to 4 times your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 times your salary
• Income protection scheme providing a financial benefit, and 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
• Annual bonus schemes
• Minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays; can buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years'
• Employee saving schemes and discounts from high‑street retailers
• Enhanced family and carers leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, two weeks paid paternity/partner leave, shared parental leave matching maternity leave at up to 24 weeks at full pay
• Up to five additional days leave for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid
• Primary annual professional institution subscription
• Opportunities for mentoring, formal training and self‑development options
• Networks, communities and social outcomes: join a wide range of groups including Advanced Employee Networks that support LGBTQ+ and parent/carer communities and help create social impact