Overview

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Location/s: Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Cardiff, Bristol, Cambridge, Reading, London, Brighton & Belfast; UK

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. 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 is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations, preventing urban flooding, and improving the health of our rivers and coastal environments.

We are looking for a driven, experienced Senior Modeller to provide key technical inputs on a diverse range of UK wastewater infrastructure projects, from feasibility through to detailed design, and to mentor and develop others.

Key Duties And Responsibilities

• Delivering wastewater infrastructure projects of varying sizes
• Collaborating closely with our clients to ensure they understand model outputs and processes
• Mentoring and training of graduate modellers and providing guidance to support their professional development
• Specification and management of flow surveys
• Undertaking a technical lead role of model build and verification projects
• Contributing and checking technical reports and presentations
• Developing technical calculation outputs when needed
• Opportunity to project manage infrastructure projects. This will involve being responsible for programme, commercial performance and technical excellence

Mott MacDonald offers a highly innovative and collaborative environment with opportunities to develop technically, managerially or client-facing directions, and strong prospects for career progression.

Candidate specification

Essential

• Ability to be a team player and develop relationships at all levels
• Working collaboratively with clients as delivery lead, planning and delivering wastewater modelling projects of varying sizes
• Strong communication skills
• Qualified candidates should have a strong working knowledge of InfoWorks ICM as well GIS packages
• Project Management experience and skills would be advantageous but not required
• Chartered with a relevant professional institution (i.e. ICE or CIWEM)
• Excellent skills in spreadsheet data analysis (i.e: using MS Excel pivot tables or PowerBI)
• Programming skills in languages such as VBA or Python would be advantageous

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 the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We 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.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, promoting 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

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 everyday health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support through our wellbeing program, including 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.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance up to 4 x your basic salary, with option to increase to 6 x.
• Income protection, 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.
• Annual bonus schemes as part of sharing in the financial success of the business.

Lifestyle

• Minimum 33-35 days holiday per year, inclusive of public holidays, with option to buy/sell leave.
• Holiday entitlement increases to 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies including 26 weeks paid maternity/adoption leave, 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 paid.

Learning and development

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

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join groups including Advanced Employee Networks supporting diverse communities.
• Contribute to social outcomes in communities.