Principal / Associate Wastewater Network Modeller

Location/s: Edinburgh or Reading, UK
Recruiter contact: Nicola Coyle

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. 

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. 

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the Division 
The Water Utilities Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to the UK and Ireland's water and wastewater challenges. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations, preventing urban flooding, and improving the health of our rivers and coastal environments. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies to outline and detailed design. Together, we deliver best-in-class solutions to our clients while offering diverse and technically stimulating opportunities to our people. 

Overview of the role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal or Associate Wastewater Network Modeller to join our national wastewater network modelling team. Following our success in securing multiple AMP8 Frameworks, in addition to our continued support to Scottish Water and the input we provide to international projects we offer a diverse and exciting range of opportunities for you to lead, shape, and drive.

You will be a driven individual experienced in wastewater modelling, and have the desire to evolve within Mott MacDonald, whilst playing a key role in mentoring and leadership of others. You will be able to operate proactively to lead projects and people to deliver successful outcomes. As a Principal or Associate Modeller, you would be responsible for technical leadership, taking on management responsibilities and influencing modelling strategy both within Mott MacDonald and with specific clients. 

Typical duties would include:

• Leading flood alleviation, environmental studies and Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO) projects
• Leading model build, model maintenance, and verification projects
• Leading the development of survey specifications
• Writing reports and preparing presentation materials and checking the completion of these deliverables by less experienced staff
• Supervising and developing staff and providing guidance to support their professional development
• Working in close partnership with clients representing the company in meetings, workshops and business development opportunities
• Driving continuous improvement in project delivery
• Involvement in bidding opportunities contributing to technical and commercial submissions

Where interested and depending on level of experience candidates will have the opportunity to also undertake the following duties:
Project management, including managing resources, budgets and programmes and coordinating with other disciplines
Line Management of colleagues

Mott MacDonald offers a highly innovative and collaborative environment within which to further develop your career. We can offer development in technical, management or client-facing directions. You will have control of your own career path and great prospects for career progression as the business continues to grow.

Candidate specification
Essential:

• Proven experience of model build, verification and solution development
• Experience in managing projects, leading teams and development of people
• Expertise in use of InfoWorks ICM, as well as GIS packages
• Good collaboration and communication skills, able to hold technical discussions in a logical and coherent fashion in both oral presentations and written reports, to colleagues, non-technical staff and clients
• Able to check and review work of others to provide quality assurance and drive continuous improvement in work delivered to the client
• Relevant degree qualified or vocational qualification. Chartered with a relevant professional institution (i.e. ICE or CIWEM) or have equivalent experience

Desirable:

• Demonstrable experience in the UK water industry
• Any programming skills in FME or languages such as VBA, Ruby scripts or Python would be advantageous but not essential
• Experience in collaboration across multidisciplinary teams
• Project Management experience or skills
• Line Management experience or skills

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.

Agile working  

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

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.

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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