Associate Civil Engineer

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The Buildings Unit (BLD) has a major presence in Mott Mac Donald'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 in these sectors.

Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for its employees? Mott Mac Donald is a global consultancy whose people do exactly that.

We are looking to recruit a talented Associate Civil Engineer to join our busy Infrastructure team in London working on a variety of exciting projects for a diverse range of clients and sectors. Project work across health, defence, regeneration, and leisure, among others.

The right candidate shall be able to combine managerial and technical responsibilities, promote a cooperative approach and inspire teams to deliver projects to quality, budget and timescales.

You will be offered, and be expected to take on, a high degree of autonomy and responsibility and contribute to growing the Infrastructure team's profile and work portfolio through successful project delivery and participation in business development.

The role offers the successful applicant the opportunity to develop their skills and progress their career working as a part of a team of innovative engineers and specialists.

You will be responsible for managing projects and multi‑disciplinary design teams producing and assuring designs, controlling task budgets, and the development of staff competencies and career paths. You will also support our Practices in business development activities and take responsibility for developing commercial and technical responses to new opportunities. The successful candidate will be professionally qualified with an appropriate engineering institution (ICE, CIHT, PW | etc).

The successful candidate must have experience in the following areas:

• Early stage optioneering
• Understanding of all stages of design (Feasibility Design through to Detailed Design)
• Demonstrate experience of leading infrastructure schemes through various stages (feasibility, concept design, detailed design, construction, commissioning, operations etc.)
• Project Management (Procurement, Requirements, Technical Assurance, Risk etc)
• Full awareness of Health & Safety Legislation and CDM Regulations and how it is applied to the design process

The candidate will be able to demonstrate practical skills in the following areas:

• Proven experience in project management of projects and leading teams across multi-disciplines (from bidding stage through to delivery against contracted cost and programme)
• Excellent communication skills (good verbal, written and presentation skills) and confident in Client facing roles
• Previous experience of working on UK public sector on infrastructure projects
• Experience in infrastructure design with competence to independently check and…