Location
Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Cambridge, Reading, London, Brighton, Leeds & Exeter, UK

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
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 Business 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.

Role Overview
Having been appointed to several UK AMP8/9 water consultancy frameworks, we are looking for a Project Technical Lead to manage the technical delivery of wastewater projects and programmes of work, coordinating multi-disciplinary teams. You will build on the good work done in establishing our frameworks and work with our technical discipline leads to ensure projects within the wastewater programme are delivered on time, within budget, and drive technical excellence. This is a customer-facing role requiring close working relationships with our clients as part of a collaborative approach. The role is expected to progress and evolve in line with framework requirements and your own skills and development areas. It offers an excellent opportunity to create future-proofed services and solutions that embrace the latest innovations in digital technology and the chance to mentor the next generation of talent within our business.

Working Environment
We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust, allowing you and your manager to choose how to work most effectively to meet client, team, and personal commitments.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, promoting fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and able to contribute.

Accessibility
We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process and provide support for candidates with disabilities or additional needs.

Benefits
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including matched pension contributions, life assurance, income protection, flexible benefits, employee ownership with shared success bonuses, private medical insurance, health cash plans, wellbeing support, generous holiday entitlement, enhanced family leave policies, and extensive learning and development opportunities.

Experience
- Chartered Status (CEng) with a recognised Professional Institution
- Understanding of conventional and innovative wastewater treatment technologies
- Proven track record of engineering technical coordination
- Experience in development and delivery of feasibility and outline design solutions within the UK water sector
- Ability to support bids, fee proposals, or offers of service
- Ability to check and review technical deliverables, calculations, and reports
- Strong communication skills with experience in effective collaboration across internal multi-disciplinary teams and client teams
- Desire to take a leading role in client engagement

About You
- Motivated to lead and mentor junior staff
- Understanding of key wastewater sector treatment and sustainability needs
- Awareness of drivers for treatment investment in England and Wales
- Excellent technical report writing skills using concise English

Qualifications
- Chartered Engineer status (CEng) is essential
- Relevant professional institution membership

Additional Information
- Mott MacDonald Ltd. is not currently offering sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK due to recent government changes. Applications are welcome from candidates eligible for alternative immigration routes that do not require sponsorship.
- Commitment to employee ownership and shared success culture
- Opportunities for career growth and development within a global consultancy