Associate Architect

Recruiter contact: Andrea Gaffney

Location: Birmingham

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.

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

About the business unit

The Buildings Unit (BLD) has a major presence in Mott MacDonald's regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross-sector skills across five key sectors: Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation and Water. We also provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the Group within these sectors.

Overview of the role

The Architecture team is part of the Buildings unit within Mott MacDonald and provides services across all RIBA stages on a wide variety of projects. You will be part of a growing Architecture practice based in the UK.Our main subsectors are Aviation, Energy, Defence and Transportation, although we deliver a diverse portfolio of challenging projects across most building typologies throughout the UK, Europe and globally.  We look for individuals who are excited by the opportunity to work on a diverse range of project types. Although we specialise in key sectors, our team members are encouraged to broaden their experience by contributing across multiple sectors and all stages of project delivery.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Architect to join our growing Architecture practice in Birmingham. This role is ideal for an experienced architect who is already leading projects and client relationships and is keen to play an active role in growing our business across the UK and Ireland.

You will be a leader in our architecture team and lead multidisciplinary project teams, act as a trusted advisor to clients, contribute to winning new work, and help shape the future growth of our Architecture practice across sectors including Aviation, Transportation, Industrial, Defence and Energy.

As a digitally focused practice, we are seeking candidates with strong Revit capabilities who can lead and coordinate design delivery.

We work for a number of clients across the UK, Ireland, Europe and elsewhere, covering all aspects of the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of complex architectural projects across multiple sectors and RIBA stages.
• Act as the primary day-to-day client contact on projects, building and maintaining strong client relationships.
• Manage multidisciplinary teams and coordinate inputs from internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead project programming, resource management, quality assurance and commercial performance.
• Support business development activities, including client engagement, networking and identifying opportunities for future work.
• Contribute to bids, proposals, fee submissions and interview presentations.
• Mentor and support the development of junior architects and architectural assistants.
• Work collaboratively with sector leaders to strengthen Mott MacDonald's market presence across key growth sectors.
• The role will require you to manage members of staff in the architecture team as line manager within the hierarchy of the architecture practice.

Candidate Specification

Essential

• Significant post-Part III experience in an architectural practice, consultancy or multidisciplinary environment.
• ARB registered.
• Proven experience leading projects and multidisciplinary design teams.
• Experience managing client relationships and acting as a key point of contact throughout project delivery.
• People management and leadership experience
• Strong commercial awareness, including project planning, programme management and resource coordination.
• Experience preparing or contributing to bids, proposals and fee submissions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience developing and mentoring junior team members.
• Strong proficiency in Autodesk Revit

Desirable

• Demonstrable track record of winning work and securing repeat business.
• Existing client relationships within one or more of our target sectors.
• Experience presenting to clients and leading bid interviews.
• Knowledge of public sector procurement frameworks.
• Experience working within Defence, Energy, Transportation, Aviation or Industrial sectors.
• Experience supporting strategic business planning or market development initiatives.

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are 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, 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.

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