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Location/s: Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Inverness, Leeds, London, Manchester; UK

Relocation supported: Not supported, but internal applications are welcome

Recruiter contact: Maria Cervantes

Hiring manager contact: James Brookes

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.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About Thebusinessunit

The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across several sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension. Together with our clients, we’re helping to deliver the energy transition globally.

Overview Of The Role

Our Energy unit have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Air Quality Consultant to join their growing team located in one of our Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Inverness, Leeds, London, Manchester offices. You'll have the opportunity to be involved in projects not only in the UK but internationally across a variety of sectors including energy, transportation and advisory.

Our recent international air quality jobs have been in countries such as Ireland, Australia, Hong Kong, Qatar, Vietnam, Barbados, the USA and the UAE. Our energy projects span from CCGT, energy from waste to biomass, diesel and gas engines, whist our transportation projects include aviation, rail and highways. We are involved in providing technical advice to a range of clients, such as lenders, who are either looking to develop or acquire a assets globally.

With us, in addition to delivering air quality assessments for UK planning and permit applications and EIA's, you will undertake large scale air quality projects on behalf of governments, international financial institutions and private banks. You’ll be responsible for providing country wide policy advice, monitoring and modelling as well as leading air quality assessments, undertaking project technical reviews, project management and helping to train and supervise junior team members. Winning work is an essential part of our business, and you will also have the opportunity to get involved in business development and production of proposals.

James will be your manager: “We have an array of exciting projects lined up, including major UK infrastructure initiatives, UK planning applications with EIA's, environmental permit applications, international development projects, and nationally significant infrastructure projects in the UK. You'll be an integral part of my team, delivering these remarkable projects. We are looking for someone who has the drive to deliver high quality work and is looking for more responsibility in a role as a senior air quality consultant.”

Candidate specification

We are looking for someone with at least five years past experience as an air quality consultant who is able to lead air quality assessments and coach junior members of the team. Having experience of leading bids and project management would also be advantageous. We are looking for a candidate with suitable academic qualifications such as a Degree or Masters in a relevant subject.

While we’re involved with a lot of energy and international work, we also need you to have experience on UK transport related projects as these are ongoing and you’ll need to be familiar with the UK assessment approaches and related tools required including ADMS-Roads, ADMS and/or AERMOD and GIS platforms. Experience in modelling transport and industrial related emissions as part of air quality assessments for planning and permit applications is going to be essential as well as being able to provide comprehensive high quality reports both for stand alone and EIA assessments.

Essential

• Suitable academic qualifications such as a Bachelors or Masters degree in a relevant air quality related subject
• Ability to lead on a range of air quality assessments for infrastructure projects as part of a collaborative multi-disciplinary team
• Must be able to demonstrate high proficiency in the use of internationally recognised dispersion models including ADMS, ADMS-Roads and AERMOD
• Experience delivering energy generation projects either in the UK or internationally
• Able to produce air quality focussed proposals
• Fluent in English (spoken and written) with excellent written communication skills
• Membership of professional body such as IAQM or IEMA
• Experience in training junior team members
• Good knowledge of monitoring approaches for a range of different pollutants
  
  

• Experience of developing emissions inventories for regional scale projects
• Knowledge of operational monitoring reporting for international energy projects and analysis of CEMS data
• Experience in using geographical information systems (GIS)
• Experience using OpenAir and Python
• Fluent in French or Spanish or German
  
  

• 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.
  
  

• 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.
  
  

• 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 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.
  
  

• 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.
  
  

• 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.
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Quality Assurance

• Industries

  Civil Engineering

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