Senior Road Safety Consultant in Sheffield

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Recruiter contact: Madeleine Knight

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

Location/s: Altrincham, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Colwyn Bay, Croydon, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Sheffield, Southampton, UK.

About The Business Unit

We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators across the globe. From preparing the business case and advising on related issues—such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation—to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.

Overview Of Role

Mott MacDonald have ambitious plans to grow our road safety services in the UK and internationally. We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Principal Road Safety Consultant to support our growth and develop our team. This role can be based out of any one of our UK offices. This is an exciting senior role with the opportunity to develop and grow in our Road Safety Team and contribute to achieving a high performing shared enterprise with our partners. Your focus will be on delivering great work, supporting a high‑performing team and helping to mentor the next generation of road safety consultants. You will be leading on a wide range of activities from road safety auditing, operational safety, delivery of iRAP projects and helping to grow our advisory offering around safety guidance, policy and research to our clients. Some of our most recent and ongoing projects include Lower Thames Crossing (Kent Roads), provision of road safety auditing to National Highways East Region and iRAP studies for NMWTRA in Wales and Transport for Greater Manchester.

Senior Road Safety Consultant Responsibilities

Technical leadership and project delivery

• Act as Project Technical Lead or Road Safety Discipline Lead on appropriate medium to large scale projects.
• Act as a senior technical leader for our road safety discipline.
• Develop and mentor junior staff in the team, building a robust technical group and giving people clear pathways for their development.
• Engage proactively with the Mott MacDonald Highways Practice globally as a subject matter expert.
• Manage road safety delivery on your projects. This may include the road safety component of a large project like Lower Thames Crossing, or project managing a road safety project such as an iRAP study or SPaTS3 task.

Business Development

• Provide technical and subject matter input to bids and opportunities to win new work.
• Support efforts to secure specialist road safety work (e.g. advisory work on the SPaTS3 Framework).
• Support the WIN team with client engagement on road safety subject matter.
• Build your internal Mott MacDonald network globally.
• Grow your external network and opportunities to promote your expertise and Mott MacDonald capability at external events and conferences.

Essential

• Honours degree or greater in a relevant engineering, transport planning or safety related subject.
• Demonstrable experience in the road safety sector.
• Demonstrable experience in road safety auditing and operational safety.
• Experience in client-facing roles, providing technical advice and guidance.

Desirable

• Professional accreditation, such as Chartered status.
• Experience overseeing and growing technical teams.
• Experience managing project deliveries.

If Security Clearance Is Required

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.

UK Immigration

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

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 perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. 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 talk to you about how we can support you.

We Offer Some Fantastic Benefits Including

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day 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 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.

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 wills 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.

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.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high‑street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• 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.

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.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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Location(s): Cambridge, GB Newcastle Upon Tyne, GB Manchester, GB London, GB Colwyn Bay, GB Altrincham, GB Sheffield, GB Glasgow, GB Norwich, GB Bristol, GB Birmingham, GB Cardiff, GB Croydon, GB Edinburgh, GB Liverpool, GB Leeds, GB Southampton, GB

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Transport

Discipline: Highways

Job Ref: 12308

Recruiter Contact: Madeleine Knight

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Management and Manufacturing

Industries

Civil Engineering