Senior Process Engineer - Southern England

Location

Location/s: Brighton, Croydon, London, Reading, Cambridge, Southampton; UK

Recruiter contact: Aoife Cullen

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 global industries, delivering work that defines our future and makes an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. We are an employee-owned business, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.

About The Business Division

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 ensures safe water supplies for future generations, prevents urban flooding, and improves the health of our rivers and coastal environments. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide services across the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies to outline and detailed design. We deliver best-in-class solutions to our clients while offering diverse and technically stimulating opportunities to our people.

Overview Of The Role

Join our dynamic and award-winning OneWater Team at Mott MacDonald, committed to our Clients, our People and the Environment. Our process engineering team works as part of a fully integrated multi-disciplinary service offering. We deliver client-centric solutions across a diverse portfolio of water sector projects and frameworks. Building on our 70-year track record in Ireland, we have secured numerous framework appointments up to 2030 and beyond, allowing us to grow our pool of talented Process Engineers.

We are agile across resource teams, offering candidates excellent career progression opportunities. We are the core of our global water and wastewater delivery capability, providing support to colleagues across our global business. You will work alongside industry-recognised experts to deliver value to key utility company clients, such as Uisce Éireann, NI Water, Scottish Water and other AMP water companies. You will undertake process investigation and design across all stages of water and wastewater scheme development; from high level master planning through to detailed design and commissioning.

Your typical duties and responsibilities will include preparation of studies and reports, process calculations and drawings to support other disciplines in the preparation of their deliverables. You will also be involved with business development including providing specialist support to our account leaders and engineering practices. The role will require mentoring a team of engineers and scientists, and you will play a key role in their professional development. The role may also include line management responsibility in future.

Candidate specification

Essential

• Degree in Chemical Engineering or related engineering field
• Chartered Status (CEng) with a recognised Professional Institution
• A deep understanding of conventional and innovative water treatment technologies
• Track record of process engineering technical leadership, being client facing and driving innovation and low carbon solutions
• Significant experience in development and delivery of outline, feasibility and detailed process engineering design solutions within Ireland and/or the UK water sector using appropriate calculation tools, including excellent technical report writing skills in concise English
• Track record in conducting water treatment plant and process root-cause analysis reviews

Desirable

• Track record in building teams and capability of junior staff
• Understanding of key water sector treatment and sustainability needs
• Ability to support process elements of bids, fee proposals or offers of service
• Strong communication skills with experience in effective collaboration across internal multi-disciplinary teams as well as Client teams
• Ability to travel to sites in various locations across Ireland and the UK

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is a consequence of changes to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working

We believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces wellbeing, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We promote equal opportunities for all and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute. We encourage individual expression in our workplace.

Accessibility

If you are disabled or need support to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com.

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 to 6 x.
• Income protection with financial benefit, 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 with all colleagues, including annual bonus schemes.

Employee Ownership

• Employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Employees have a stake and a voice in our business, with performance bonuses.
• Your career growth increases your stake, recognising long-term impact and contribution.
• Voice matters with opportunities to connect with senior leadership to help shape our future.
• For senior roles, a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan for everyday costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy for menopause support.
• Wellbeing program with resources for you and your family.
• Option to flex salary to include health benefits for you and family.

Lifestyle

• Minimum of 33-35 days holiday per year, inclusive of public holidays, with buy/sell options.
• Holiday entitlement increases to at least 35 days after 5 years of service.
• Saving schemes and retailer discounts.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity/adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Shared parental leave up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave for significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• Opportunities to develop technical and soft skills through mentoring, training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join groups including Advanced Employee Networks supporting LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Contribute to community impact through our social outcomes programs.

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

Location(s): Brighton, GB; Cambridge, GB; London, GB; Southampton, GB; Croydon, GB; Reading, GB

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Water

Discipline: Water

Job Ref: 13321

Recruiter Contact: Aoife Cullen