Location

UK-wide

Recruiter contact

Alice Roostan

Overview of the role

We are seeking an individual who will contribute technically to Mott MacDonald's technology services ITS Engineering and Consultancy team. This may include work on a specific project seconded into our client in the South East region. This would involve weekly travel to the Hampshire area to visit our client. As a separate matter, your main Mott MacDonald office location will be discussed at interview stage. The weekly travel to Hampshire would be coordinated with other colleagues seconded into our client, several of which are based in the Bristol and Southampton Mott MacDonald offices as their main location.

Depending on the project in the South East region, either from the start or in due course, your role will primarily be centred around designing and specifying a varied range of ITS projects using your skills and experience to deliver technical excellence to schemes on behalf of our clients. You will also have experience with supervising other team members, and this may include mentoring, support, training, and general guidance within their day-to-day activities. You will be a member of a professional body (e.g. Institute of Highway Engineers, Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation, Institution of Engineer & Technology). The ability to travel and the flexibility to work from different offices/locations on occasion would be beneficial.

Candidate Specification

You will most likely have an engineering background with a track record of design input (at any stage of the process) to ITS projects. You will have a detailed understanding of ITS and/or related technologies, along with a broad insight to developing trends across the transport sector, together with their operational applications to meet client needs.

Essential:

• BEng / BSc (in engineering or related subject) or relevant professional experience


• A track record in the design of ITS schemes in the UK


• A good working knowledge of national standards, equipment capabilities and design specifications


• Chartership with a relevant institution

Desirable:

• Experience of working with Highways England and UK local authorities


• Experience of designing major project ITS schemes


• Experience of working in a collaborative environment


• Project management experience in an ITS project context


• Ability to develop relationships and engender trust with clients and partners


• Excellent communication skills


• Strong sense of initiative


• Sector 8 Accreditation

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.

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.

Agile working

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

Benefits

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 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.

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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