Water Major Projects - Principal Civil Engineer in Reading

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. Join our dynamic and award-winning OneWater Team at Mott MacDonald, where we are committed to our Clients, our People and the Environment.

In this role you will provide leadership and technical excellence across multi-disciplinary teams, ensure compliance with contract and safety standards, drive business development, and mentor junior staff.

• Lead multi-disciplinary design teams in project delivery
• Support technical excellence activities through digital innovation, sharing best practice and implementing robust QA procedures
• Contribute to our commercial success through forecasting and risk management, and the production of bids and proposals
• Work to Mott MacDonald’s global standards and review Health, Safety and Welfare alongside environmental impact
• Review of design submissions to ensure compliance with contract requirements
• Conduct discipline checker role on standard outputs
• Interfacing and liaising with clients and other stakeholders
• Mentoring and contributing to the development of junior staff
• Working with resource leads to coordinate project resources and to grow and develop our capability through recruitment and training
• Business development including providing specialist support to our Account Leaders and Practices and leading on proposals and tenders in the water and wastewater fields

We are seeking a driven individual with a passion for finding solutions that meet environmental and cost drivers whilst delivering excellent customer outputs.

• Chartered engineer with relevant technical degree
• Experience of leading engineering design and/or multi-disciplinary design teams on water or wastewater projects in the UK and Ireland water market
• Front-end major projects experience
• Solid knowledge of water or wastewater specifications and standards
• A team leader capable of managing and motivating individuals to consistently deliver
• Commercial awareness, delivering cost-effective solutions within time and cost constraints
• Strong communication skills to interact with other disciplines and clients, and to develop and promote the team
• willingness to contribute to and develop technical knowledge networks
• A drive to be abreast of professional development and knowledge of current and emerging technical solutions
• Proactive approach, with an ability to adapt to changing scenarios

• Experience of complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects
• Experience or 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
• Resource management and line management experience
• Experience of Development Consent Orders (DCO)
• Able to travel to other offices and sites, as required

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 programme, 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 4x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6x 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. Holiday entitlement: at least 35 days p.a. (35 days after 5 years of service), inclusive of public holidays. Ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme. 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. Join a wide range of groups, including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race, ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities. Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

Mott MacDonald is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or any other protected characteristic.