Technical Advisor

Position location: Birmingham

Recruiter: Martin Keown

Mott MacDonald

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. 

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence. 

Job Profile
Mott MacDonald is one of the largest employee-owned companies in the world. We are a multisector consultancy providing engineering, management, and development services on projects in 150 countries. With over 16,000 of the best people working on a diverse range of challenges, we’re helping our clients deliver sustainable infrastructure and development solutions. 
The Strategic Consultancy Services team within Buildings and Cities delivers projects and services ranging in scale and complexity from a few million pounds to £20bn. The team is responsible for delivering construction projects from inception to completion for both Public and Private clients. They also provide support to the wider Mott MacDonald teams on major Infrastructure projects, throughout the UK and abroad.
Mott MacDonald has experienced significant growth in workload within Strategic Consultancy and the resulting market share. To sustain this growth, we need to continue to attract and develop the best talent in the industry.

Role Description

An opportunity has arisen to join the Birmingham office to undertake projects within the Strategic Consultancy Services team, support wider Mott MacDonald projects, and develop new workstreams within the Strategic Consultancy framework.
We are looking for a candidate in a construction related discipline with strong post graduate experience or recently chartered to join our growing Strategic Consultancy Services team.  You will be driving delivery and growth by working as part of a local team and supporting our national framework delivery.
The team is responsible for delivering construction projects from inception to completion for both Public and Private clients. 
The successful candidate will be involved in all aspects of the delivery of both public sector projects from inception to the end of the defects period. A knowledge of buildings, general infrastructure and contract management would be an advantage. 

The role will encompass the following;
•    Feasibility Studies and scheme development
•    Procurement
•    Delivery of construction projects and contract administration
•    Management of risk and compliance 
•    Project management 

Candidate Specification

•    Degree Qualified in a construction related discipline.
•    Strong post-graduation experience or recently chartered.
•    Experience in the delivery of buildings and Infrastructure projects preferable
•    Project management & Contract administration experience preferable
•    Enthusiasm to become involved in and support wider projects and initiatives within Mott MacDonald.

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

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. 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 

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• 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.

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 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.

Lifestyle

• 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 and carers leave

• 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.

 Learning and development

• 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.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• 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.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.