Head of Process Engineering - Nuclear

Location/s

Altrincham, Glasgow, Bristol; UK

Recruiter contact

Erinda Hazizi

Mott Mac Donald 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.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best.

As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.

Whatever your ambition, Mott Mac Donald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the business unit

The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across several sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks.

Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension.

Together with our clients, we’re helping to deliver the energy transition globally.

Overview of the role

Are you an experienced Process Engineering leader looking for a role where you can shape projects, influence clients, and develop high-performing teams?

Do you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges while having the autonomy to make decisions and drive innovation?

If so, we'd love to hear from you.

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• Head of Process Engineering to join our

Nuclear, Defence and Civil team, working across a diverse portfolio of projects that includes nuclear decommissioning, defence, and major energy and infrastructure programmes.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in delivering technically challenging projects while helping to grow our capability and strengthen client relationships.

As a senior leader within the business, you'll combine technical excellence with people and client leadership.

You'll lead and develop a team of engineers, support business growth through client engagement and opportunity development, and provide expert guidance across a range of multidisciplinary projects.

The role covers all stages of engineering delivery, from feasibility and concept development through to detailed design.

Working closely with clients and project teams, you'll help develop practical, innovative solutions to complex challenges, prepare and review technical documentation, and represent the business at client meetings and site visits.

Along the way, you'll mentor and support engineers at all levels, helping to build a strong and collaborative engineering team.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys balancing technical leadership, client engagement, and team development while contributing to some of the UK's most important and exciting projects.

Candidate specification

Essential

• You’ll be responsible for providing quality assurance of others work by surveillance and checking
• Line management responsibilities for the nuclear process team
• Chartered status with the IChem E or other relevant professional body
• Lead process engineering aspects of multi-discipline design projects
• Possess a broad knowledge of industry standards and legislation
• Be able to present and defend solutions to complex problems to clients
• Ensures safety is an integral part of process engineering design
• Technical chemical/process engineering experience
• Demonstrable experience in process engineering design
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to adapt and work on multiple projects
• Client-facing experience as well as a commercial awareness of FEED projects
• Experience of supporting or mentoring more junior engineers
• Able to actively seek input from other engineers, specialists, facility and project team members to improve understanding and deliver fit for purpose solutions

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.

• Internal Job Title: Senior Principal Process Engineer
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• UK Immigration

Mott Mac Donald 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.

Agile working

At Mott Mac Donald, 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 at reasonable. adjustments@mottmac. com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

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.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
• Employee Ownership
• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.
• Health and wellbeing
• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day 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.
• 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.
• 10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers.
• 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 and carers leave
• 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.
• We offer policies and dedicated support to help military families balance service life with career and wellbeing.
• 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.
• Networks, communities, and social outcomes
• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Gold Award holders in the MOD Employer Recognition Scheme, supported by our dedicated internal Armed Forces Network.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes .

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.