Asset Management Advisor

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 Division

The Water Utilities Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to the UK and Ireland's water and wastewater challenges. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations, preventing urban flooding, and improving the health of our rivers and coastal environments. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies to outline and detailed design. Together, we deliver best-in-class solutions to our clients while offering diverse and technically stimulating opportunities to our people.

Overview Of The Role

Are you motivated to support the water sector become more efficient and effective in delivering their services while protecting the environment? Are you passionate about sustainability and eager to support the water sector to become Net Zero and resilient to climate change? Do you enjoy working within multidisciplinary teams and learning on the job? Are you seeking the opportunity to deliver projects that make a difference? Then we want to hear from you!

The Asset Management And Infrastructure Planning Team Is One Of Five Sub-sectors Within Our Water Consultancy Division, Which Employs Around 600 People Across The UK. We Work In The Water Sector And With Other Infrastructure Providers Both In The UK And Internationally In The Following Areas:

• Water resource investment planning
• Wastewater and bioresources investment planning
• Strategic asset management and business planning
• Technical assurance of operational performance and business cases
• Carbon and net zero appraisal and strategic planning
• Integrated systems management
• Data analytics and decision support tools
• Contract’s appraisal (NEC, PPP)

Our clients are facing significant challenges from climate change, population growth and ageing assets. Their customers expect increasing service levels and less impact on the environment at lower cost. Asset management is key to overcoming these challenges and therefore we are growing our team in this area.

We are looking for motivated professionals, with at least 5 years of asset management experience preferably in the water sector, to join our team based in the UK. The ideal candidate will have a desire for a long-term career in asset management, becoming a Member of the Institute of Asset Management and managing their own projects.

Key Responsibilities And Duties Include:

• Assist the technical delivery of asset management advisory projects, including frequent interaction with clients and working from within client environments
• Contribute to the development of project outputs, including investment business cases and reports
• Support business development activities, including client engagement, preparing and managing project proposals
• Facilitate asset management capability assessments and identifying areas for improvement
• Support project and budget management, including team coordination and ensuring compliance with PM procedures
• Undertake identified training to support technical excellence
• Perform data analysis to support project delivery

Candidate specification

You Will Have Experience In The Following:

• Asset planning or asset strategy
• Risk assessment and management
• Investment appraisal or cost benefit analysis
• Investment planning or investment programme optimisation
• Resilience assessment and planning
• Developing decision support tools
• Performance monitoring/reporting
• Some experience/knowledge of ISO 55000 or another ISO standard

Essential:

• Degree qualified in an environmental or other relevant subject
• Chartership recently achieved through a relevant organisation (ICE, CIWEM or similar), or working at an equivalent level with demonstrable progress towards Chartership
• Industry experience in asset management, ideally in a water company or consultancy
• Critical thinking and analytical skills
• Strong interpersonal, communication and writing skills. This would include the ability to review complex documents, summarise and present the key issues in a clear and concise way.
• Project management, client liaison and consulting skills
• Willingness to undertake assignments throughout the UK, as well as short international visits

Desired:

• Certificate or Diploma in Asset Management from the Institute of Asset Management
• Assurance/audit experience including experience of ISO auditing
• Commercial awareness and project proposal preparation
• Organisational change management
• Chartership with a relevant environmental or asset management professional institution
• Industry experience and/or willingness to actively embrace on and off the job training in additional areas such as decarbonisation, climate resilience, systems thinking, nature-based solutions and/or circular economy
• A broader awareness of other environmental and social disciplines

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We 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.

Accessibility

We 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 reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

We are happy to talk openly about flexible working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We Offer Some Fantastic Benefits Including:

• 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.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access 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 too.
• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as 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.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
• A 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.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

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