Mott MacDonald
Position location: Cambridge, Leeds, Reading, Bristol, Brighton, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Newcastle.
Recruiter contact: Hayley Alexander
We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.
A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.
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Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.
About the business unit
The Water Consultancy Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to water and wastewater challenges, offering fantastic opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations and protecting our environment. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies, through outline and detailed design, to construction support and site supervision.
Ready for your next challenge? We're a company that actively fuels the creativity of our people. We create the right foundations to bring brain and soul together and we understand that careers take many forms. We've had enormous success in the AMP8 frameworks, and we know that variety is key to job satisfaction. We use our success to help our people learn through new challenges. So take the next step in your career, with a company focused on supporting the development of our people through defined technical career pathways and supporting creativity with global and local mentors. You have the skills, now use them at Mott MacDonald, a company that values a different perspective. If water's the new gold - shift your career and help address our planet's needs.
Overview of role
We are looking for a technical leader to be responsible for technical direction and quality, whether applying innovative thinking to new or established services or developing your own concepts from scratch. Alongside the technical role, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop skills in project management and business development through engaging with our water sector and regulatory framework clients.
You will lead need definition, option identification and assessment, feasibility assessments, concept design and detailed design of solutions for catchment management and wastewater treatment. These solutions will include established NBS such as facultative lagoons, reedbeds, vertical flow and horizontal flow constructed wetlands as well as recent developments such as Integrated Constructed Wetlands (ICWs), floating treatment wetlands, the application of constructed wetlands for storm water and Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) treatment, and Natural Flood Management and SuDS to manage flows in the network. As a Nature Based Solutions Specialist, your remit will cover a range of technical, management and commercial/client-facing activities.
In this role you will:
Provide technical leadership in NBS in the water environment, driving innovation and efficiencies and maintaining our reputation in the industry Oversee projects, ensuring timely, cost-effective delivery of high-quality project outcomesWork as part of a multidisciplinary project team including treatment, civil engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering, landscape, ecology, climate, social and operational specialist teamsBuild and manage strong and strategic partnerships with clients Engage stakeholders in the planning, design and delivery of NBS and work collaboratively with partnersSupport, mentor and train early careers colleaguesDrive thought leadership, technical excellence and knowledge sharing
Candidate specification
Essential
Desirable
Strong understanding of processes design principals in wastewater treatment particularly with reference to Nature-based SolutionsAbility to apply recognised process models to size NbS options for wastewater treatmentExperience applying NbS and mixed conventional/NbS solutions.Drive to be at the forefront the strategic development of this growing service in Mott MacDonaldProven ability to develop a workstream in nature-based solutionsProfessional consultancy experience in nature-based solutionsProven track record in delivering projects, business development and winning bidsFamiliarity with the relevant legislation and regulation