Mott MacDonald
Position location: Cardiff, Newport, United Kingdom
Recruiter contact: Steven Johnston
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About the division
The Water Consultancy Division is the centre of excellence within Mott MacDonald for responding to water and wastewater challenges, providing support to colleagues across our global business, and offering fantastic opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work. Climate change, aging assets, and population growth place increasing pressure on our water and wastewater assets. Our highly successful water consultancy business is servicing ever-increasing demands from water sector clients to help deliver ambitious capital programmes. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations and protecting our environment. With sustainability, social impacts, digitalisation, and carbon reduction in mind, our diverse and multi-disciplinary teams work together to 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.
Overview of role
Mott MacDonald is a market leader in the UK water sector, being a key supplier to major water companies and delivering a wide variety of engineering and advisory projects in support to the challenges faced by the sector. Our Water Consultancy Division has ambitious growth plans in line with AMP8 investment needs and we are proud of our strong reputation in the industry which is allowing us to expand our business. Having been appointed to a large UK water consultancy framework in 2024, we are looking for a Civils Discipline Lead to support the delivery of our water and wastewater programmes. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will be the figure head for the Civil Engineering discipline within the framework. You will have the opportunity to steer the technical direction of discipline related activities, working closely with our Client and our other discipline leads. You will own the technical quality of the deliverables created by engineers/consultants and manage technical problem solving. You will also be expected to hold a key relationship with equivalent discipline leads for the client, leveraging this to help resolve technical issues and blockers.
The scale of investment required in AMP8 is both a significant challenge but a major opportunity to provide a long-lasting legacy to our client and their region. It also requires new more efficient ways of delivering our services and for the successful candidate to demonstrate their ability to identify and implement innovations that maintain delivery to programme and commercial targets.
Key elements of the role will include taking a lead on and managing the following activities:
Accountable for technical quality of the deliverables created by their discipline, including the competency of their discipline’s staff and quality assurance processes. Challenge of the client’s technical standards and the acceptance of waivers and deviations, relevant to their discipline. Ensures their discipline discharges its duties as a Designer under CDM.Co-ordinates Civil resources across the framework alongside design managers and project technical leads.Develops relationships and maintains regular communication with the relevant client technical stakeholders relevant to their discipline.
The role is expected to develop and evolve in line with the framework requirements and the candidates’ own skills and development areas. It also offers the opportunity to develop the next generation of talent within our business.
Candidate specification
We are looking for a driven individual, keen to make a difference in the sector, take wide responsibilities and progress professionally.
Required skills and experience:
Desired skills and experience:
Experience with NEC PS contracts.Proven project management experience.UK water sector experience in delivering programme of works.
If you meet most of these requirements, we would like to hear from you. We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. #LI-SJ1