Senior Civil Engineer - Water

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.

Due to sustained framework successes, we have opportunities for Senior Civil Engineers in our Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle offices within our multidisciplinary Water Utilities Division. This is a design-focused role, primarily supporting the delivery of outline and detailed design for water and wastewater projects across major UK water frameworks. You will work as part of integrated design teams to develop practical, buildable and efficient engineering solutions that help improve water infrastructure and environmental performance.

The role will involve taking projects from feasibility design into outline and detailed design, producing and coordinating design drawings, calculations, specifications, schedules and supporting technical documentation. You will help manage design interfaces, contribute to buildability reviews, support technical assurance and provide technical input during construction where required. This is an opportunity to develop your technical leadership capability while working on varied, high-profile water sector projects with colleagues across our UK and global business.

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Delivering outline and detailed civil engineering design for water and wastewater projects, with a main focus on United Utilities and other UK water clients
• Preparing and coordinating design deliverables, including calculations, drawings, specifications, schedules, technical reports and design submissions
• Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, including hydraulic, process, mechanical, electrical, environmental and construction specialists
• Managing design interfaces, resolving technical issues and helping ensure designs are practical, safe, buildable and efficient
• Supporting technical assurance, including checking and reviewing design information in line with project and client requirements
• Mentoring and supporting junior engineers and technicians, helping them develop their technical capability
• Engaging confidently with clients, contractors and stakeholders to support successful project delivery and build strong working relationships

We are looking for someone who enjoys solving practical engineering problems, working collaboratively and developing designs that can be confidently taken forward into construction.

Essential:

• Civil Engineering degree or other relevant degree
• Chartered or near chartered status (ICE or equivalent)
• Water and/or wastewater engineering OR infrastructure engineering design experience, ideally including outline and detailed design deliverables
• Experience preparing or reviewing engineering calculations, drawings, specifications, reports or design submissions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Understanding of the importance of prioritising health, safety, and environmental issues
• Proactive approach, with the ability to adapt to changing project requirements and work collaboratively across design teams
• Awareness of construction issues affecting design and being confident in developing solutions in collaboration with Client delivery partners.

Desirable:

• Strong digital capability (e.g. Civils 3D, GIS)
• Contributed towards the identification and development of low carbon solutions
• Knowledge of CDM and especially duties of Designers and Principal Designers
• Knowledge of contractual arrangements and commercial processes

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 are happy to talk openly about flexible working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with everyday health costs and treatments.
• 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.
• 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.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.