Strategic Investment Planning Modeller in Cambridge

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.

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.

Overview of the role: The Asset Management and Infrastructure Planning team is one of five subsectors within our Water Utilities Division, a 510-strong community of specialists across the UK. We work with UK and international water companies and infrastructure providers to deliver strategic, technical and systematic expertise across the following areas:

• Technical assurance of statutory and regulatory submissions (e.g., annual performance reporting, business cases, business plans, long-term strategies, operational plans)
• Water resource investment planning
• Wastewater and bioresources investment planning
• Strategic asset management and business planning
• Carbon and net-zero appraisal and strategic planning
• Integrated systems management
• Data analytics and decision-support tools
• Contract appraisal (NEC, PPP)

We are growing our capability in integrated water systems modelling and are seeking a technical frontrunner to help shape and advance this area. As a Strategic Investment Planning Modeller, you will undertake the creation, development, and assurance of integrated water system models. Your work will help clients understand and quantify future uncertainties across complex water and wastewater systems, enabling more resilient, efficient and sustainable long-term planning.

Candidate specification:

• Degree in water management, engineering, environmental science, or a related technical discipline
• Experience delivering and assuring modelling for one or more of the following: Water treatment, Water distribution, Wastewater network modelling, Wastewater treatment
• Strong interest in integrated water management and a desire to promote the development of modelling theory and practice
• Keen interest in promoting the introduction of new technical processes, methods, or modelling approaches

• Working towards chartership with a recognised professional institution, or IAM Certification
• Familiarity with UK water sector regulation
• Experience developing: Regional water resource plans, Water company plans (business plans, WRMPs, drought plans, wastewater and drainage plans, sludge strategies, regional water resource plans)
• Project management, client-facing, and consultancy skills
• Experience of options appraisal and best-value planning
• Experience in auditing and assurance processes
• Understanding and use of asset information for planning or modelling
• Strong report-writing, communication, and presentation skills

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, 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.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Financial wellbeing: 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.

Health and wellbeing: 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.

Lifestyle: 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.

Learning and development: 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.

Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.