Principal Civil Engineer

Mott MacDonald

Position location: Madrid, Spain
Recruiter contact: María Cervantes 

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

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. 

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.

Job description

Given this, we have an exciting opportunity for a talented Civil Engineer to join our team in Spain to support the delivery of our UK clients’ water and wastewater programmes. Typical duties and responsibilities will include:

• Undertaking studies, concept, preliminary and detailed design.
• Leading multi-disciplinary design teams in project delivery.
• Project management duties, including programme and financial management for small to medium sized projects.
• Review of design submissions to ensure compliance with contract requirements.
• Conduct discipline checker role on standard outputs.
• Interfacing and liaising with clients and other stakeholders.
• Mentoring and contributing to the development of junior staff.
• Working with resource leads to coordinate project resources and to grow and develop our capability through recruitment and training.
• Business development including providing specialist support to our Account Leaders and Practices and leading on proposals and tenders in the water and wastewater fields.
• Challenge of the client’s technical standards and the acceptance of waivers and deviations, relevant to their discipline.

At Mott MacDonald you will have control of your own career path and great prospects for career progression as the business continues to grow. We can offer development in technical, management or client-facing directions.
We are looking for a driven individual, keen to make a difference in the sector, take wide responsibilities and progress professionally.

Candidate specification

Required skills and experience:

• Civil Engineering or other relevant degree.
• Experience of leading engineering design and/or multi-disciplinary design teams on water or wastewater projects.
• Solid knowledge of water or wastewater specifications and standards.
• Strong communication skills to interact with other disciplines and clients, and to develop and promote the team.
• A team leader capable of managing and motivating individuals to consistently delivery.
• Willingness to contribute to and develop technical knowledge networks.
• A drive to be abreast of professional development and knowledge of current and emerging technical solutions. 
• Proactive approach, with an ability to adapt to changing scenarios.

Desirable:

• Chartered Status (CEng) with a recognised Professional Institution.
• Experience with NEC PS contracts.
• Good understanding of designers’ responsibilities under CDM.
• Strong digital capability (e.g. Civils 3D, GIS, hydraulic modelling software)
• Contributed towards the identification and development of low carbon solutions.

Experience in the UK water sector would be advantageous although not necessary.

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. 

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:

• Holiday entitlement
• Life assurance
• Professional membership subscription 
• Private medical insurance 
• Pension scheme 
• Agile/flexible working – because life isn’t 9-5  
• Annual bonus scheme  
• Flexible benefits that suit you, including restaurant voucher, transport card or day care voucher.
• Wellbeing support including access to an independent Employer Assistance Scheme, wellbeing champions and access to learning and support resources 
• Access to our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities 
• The opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our social outcomes

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