Overview

Due to significant growth and future market opportunities within our Water Consultancy Division, we are looking to establish and grow a technical advisory team to provide specialist technical advice on major water projects. This will include:

• Lenders Technical Advisory (LTA) work
• Technical Advisory projects (eg one off technical reviews or ongoing 'drumbeat' audits, assurance and risk reviews to investors/IPs/CAPs)
• Independent design reviews, coordinating wider resources as required, including CAT 3 checks
• Support to Independent Technical Advisor bids and delivery

To keep our service offering joined up, ensure consistent, high-quality technical output, and to provide space for our people to grow around a team working on similar work with similar clients, we plan to establish a Major Projects Technical Advisory team within the Water Engineering Team of our Water Consultancy Division. The Major Projects Technical Advisory Lead will have responsibility for leading on all technical advisory work undertaken by our technical (e.g. engineering) water teams on major projects.

Responsibilities

• Establish and grow a team to deliver technical advisory work on major water projects
• Business development by working with Account Leaders and Client Directors to engage with the market, develop new opportunities and help maintain significant work for the team
• Team leadership, line management and resource management (noting line management and resource management to be delegated as required)
• Ownership of external proposition to the market of our water projects Technical Advisory offering
• Overall responsibility for all technical advisory work undertaken by our technical (e.g. engineering) water teams
• Technical Lead or Project Director for delivery of Technical Advisory projects

Company policy: 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

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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 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 to 6 x your salary.
  • Income protection and return-to-work support for long-term illness or injury.
  • Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance, 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 including annual bonus schemes.
• Experience and development
  • Experience of delivering technical advisory work to investors, lenders or finance institutions
  • Experience of business development and growing service offerings and teams
  • Major project delivery experience, ideally in the water sector
• Company information
• Our people power our performance. We work across global industries delivering exciting work that defines our future and makes a societal impact. We are a proudly employee-owned business and value empowerment, inclusion, and growth for everyone. The Water Consultancy Division is our centre of excellence for responding to water and wastewater challenges, providing diverse and technically challenging work across the full project life cycle.

Additional benefits

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme; holiday entitlement increases to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years of service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
• Enhanced family and carers leave: 26 weeks paid maternity/adoption leave, two weeks paid paternity/partner leave, shared parental leave up to 24 weeks at full pay, and up to five additional days leave for caring responsibilities (two paid).
• Learning and development: primary annual professional institution subscription and opportunities to enhance technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
• Networks, communities, and social outcomes: join groups supporting LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities; contribute to social outcomes.