Senior Consultant Climate Resilience

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.

About the business unit: Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors. We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.

Overview of the role: Mott MacDonald is committed to improving people’s lives through delivering sustainable infrastructure solutions, and are looking for like-minded, forward-thinking individuals to join our growing Climate, Social and Sustainability Team for the European Region. You will be part of our team working to deliver climate resilient solutions to a range of infrastructure clients in the private and public sector. Recent clients have included East West Rail, Heathrow Airport, Transport for London, Severn Trent Water, Scottish Water and Department for Transport. You will be responsible for leading bids and delivering projects, including quantitative and qualitative climate change risk assessments, interpreting climate projection data, and identifying adaptation measures for infrastructure projects. This is a mid-level appointment with long-term career potential, working in a rapidly growing area.

Candidate specification:

• Essential:
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Engineering, Environmental Science, Maths, Computing, Geography, or similar subject
• Chartered or working towards chartership with a professional institution
• Experience of obtaining, analysing and applying UK climate projection data to infrastructure projects
• Numerical skills - proficiency in MS Excel and/or statistics packages, coding (Python experience preferred), and manipulating large datasets
• Experience of undertaking qualitative and quantitative physical climate change risk assessments
• Track record in leading and winning bids for climate resilience services
• A good communicator, ability to understand client needs, and convey messages about climate risk and resilience in an accessible manner.
• Desirable:
• Master’s level education in Climate Change, Engineering or Environmental Sciences or similar subject
• Minimum five years of experience in delivering climate resilience services
• A collaborator with ability to build good working relationships across the business to identify adaptation opportunities
• Experience using climate data within GIS and/or digital visualisation tool development
• Use of global climate data and experience in carrying out international climate change risk assessments

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

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 feel supported and able to perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. If there is anything we can do to make applying or interviewing with us more accessible, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we'll be happy to discuss how we can help.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Enhanced family and carers leave: Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• 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.