Principal / Associate Wastewater Network Modeller in Edinburgh

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.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal or Associate Wastewater Network Modeller to join our national wastewater network modelling team. Following our success in securing multiple AMP8 Frameworks, in addition to our continued support to Scottish Water and the input we provide to international projects we offer a diverse and exciting range of opportunities for you to lead, shape, and drive. You will be a driven individual experienced in wastewater modelling, and have the desire to evolve within Mott MacDonald, whilst playing a key role in mentoring and leadership of others. You will be able to operate proactively to lead projects and people to deliver successful outcomes. As a Principal or Associate Modeller, you would be responsible for technical leadership, taking on management responsibilities and influencing modelling strategy both within Mott MacDonald and with specific clients.

Typical Duties

• Leading flood alleviation, environmental studies and Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO) projects
• Leading model build, model maintenance, and verification projects
• Leading the development of survey specifications
• Writing reports and preparing presentation materials and checking the completion of these deliverables by less experienced staff
• Supervising and developing staff and providing guidance to support their professional development
• Working in close partnership with clients representing the company in meetings, workshops and business development opportunities
• Driving continuous improvement in project delivery
• Involvement in bidding opportunities contributing to technical and commercial submissions

Candidate Specification

Essential

• Proven experience of model build, verification and solution development
• Experience in managing projects, leading teams and development of people
• Expertise in use of InfoWorks ICM, as well as GIS packages
• Good collaboration and communication skills, able to hold technical discussions in a logical and coherent fashion in both oral presentations and written reports, to colleagues, non-technical staff and clients
• Able to check and review work of others to provide quality assurance and drive continuous improvement in work delivered to the client
• Relevant degree qualified or vocational qualification. Chartered with a relevant professional institution (i.e. ICE or CIWEM) or have equivalent experience

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience in the UK water industry
• Any programming skills in FME or languages such as VBA, Ruby scripts or Python would be advantageous but not essential
• Experience in collaboration across multidisciplinary teams
• Project Management experience or skills
• Line Management experience or 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.

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 and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We Offer Some Fantastic 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.
• 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 × your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 × 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.
• 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.
• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• 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.