Pavement Engineer

Overview

Location/s: Southampton, Birmingham or Sheffield; UK

Recruiter contact: Pamela Wray-Slack

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across global industries, delivering work that defines our future and makes a societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are diverse as every individual.

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 Mac Donald is where people come to be brilliant.

About The Business Unit

We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. From preparing the business case and advising on related issues—such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation—to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it, our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.

Overview Of The Role

Following continued growth and success in winning major projects across the UK and overseas, we are looking for a Pavement Engineer to join our technical advisory team. The role can be based in one of our Birmingham, Southampton, or Sheffield offices. This is an opportunity to develop and grow our vibrant airfield and highways pavement team and contribute to achieving a high performing shared enterprise with our partners.

You will work with go digital platforms as an integral part of the wider design teams located around the UK.

As a Pavement Engineer, you will work with the team to meet the needs of our clients across a wide range of projects. You will promote health, safety and well-being policies and ensure these are incorporated in any design, and ensure design outputs meet our quality obligations and requirements set out in our Business Management System (BMS).

• Delivery of airfield pavement design to UK and international design standards
• Delivery of highway pavement design to UK and international design standards
• Assessment and prioritisation of pavement intervention works
• Optimisation of maintenance and renewal works/schemes for clients
• Condition assessment and root cause analysis of pavement defects/failures
• Supporting technical parts of the business to fully take account of operation and maintenance
• Provision of advice on carbon reduction in pavement design and maintenance
• Supporting members of the team with their technical and professional development
• Implementing digital technology to increase delivery efficiency or enhance project outcomes
• Supporting the development of bids to increase the pipeline of work

The successful candidate will be proactive, enthusiastic and eager to play a part in a growing team.

• Expertise in pavement design, materials and pavement testing
• Civil Engineering degree or equivalent
• Security Clearance (SC) and/or willingness to obtain SC

• High standard of verbal and written communications
• Attention to detail and good proofing skills
• Strong interpersonal / people skills
• Ability to work in a fluid and fast environment
• Ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of people

• Experience working on civil and/or military airfield pavement engineering projects and familiarity with airfield pavement standards and specifications, such as DMG
  27, FAA and ICAO
• Knowledge of specialist pavement design software such as FAARFIELD or CIRCLY
• Experience on highways and/or other pavement structures (e.g. heavy duty port pavements, industrial pavements etc.)
• Experience using asset management systems (AMS) or pavement management systems (PMS)
• Working towards…