Due to significant growth and future market opportunities within our Water Consultancy Division, we are looking to establish and grow a Front‑end Engineering Delivery team focused on the leadership, management and engineering delivery of major water projects. This will include the UK water company Strategic Resource Options and major schemes working on flood and coastal risk management, navigation and water land and biodiversity assets and across the hydropower market. Front‑end Engineering is expected to include feasibility, concept and outline design stages.
Responsibilities
- Undertake studies, concept and outline design
- Lead or coordinate multi‑disciplinary design teams in project delivery
- Review design submissions to ensure compliance with contract requirements
- Act as discipline checker on standard outputs
- Interface and liaise with clients and other stakeholders
- Mentor and contribute to the development of junior staff
- Work with resource leads to coordinate project resources and grow capability through recruitment and training
- Support business development, including providing support to Account Leaders and production of bids and proposals
- Support technical excellence activities through digital innovation, sharing best practice and implementing robust QA procedures
- Work to global standards and review Health, Safety and Welfare alongside environmental impact
Candidate Specification
- Chartered engineer with a relevant technical degree
- Solid knowledge of water or wastewater specifications and standards
- Experience developing civil engineering designs and checking designs done by others under your supervision
- Strong communication skills to interact with other disciplines and clients, and to develop the team
- Willingness to contribute to and develop technical knowledge networks
- A drive to keep abreast of professional development and knowledge of current and emerging technical solutions
- Proactive approach with an ability to adapt to changing scenarios
- Commercial awareness, delivering cost‑effective solutions within time and cost constraints
Desirable
- Experience of complex, multi‑disciplinary engineering projects
- Experience of water or wastewater projects in the UK and Ireland water market
- Front‑end major projects experience
- Experience of canals or flood defence projects
- Good understanding of designers' responsibilities under CDM
- Strong digital capability (e.g. Civils 3D, GIS, hydraulic modelling software)
- Contributed towards the identification and development of low‑carbon solutions
- Able to travel to other offices and sites, as required
Benefits
- Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues
- Health cash plan to support everyday health costs and treatments
- Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues
- A variety of wellbeing support available through a comprehensive wellbeing programme, including access for you and your family
- 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 cover to 6× 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 and annual leave of 33–35 days per year (35 days after 5 years' service)
- Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave and 2 weeks paid paternity/partner leave; shared parental leave matches maternity leave up to 24 weeks at full pay; up to five additional days leave for significant caring responsibilities
- Primary annual professional institution subscription and a broad range of development opportunities
- Access to advanced employee networks supporting LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parent/carer communities; opportunity to contribute to social outcomes
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment practices and ensure equal opportunities for all.
Accessibility
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 discuss how we can support you.
