Engineering Manager - Wastewater

Mott MacDonald; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy seeks an Engineering Manager for its Water Utilities Division. This role involves overseeing a multi-disciplinary team to effectively deliver wastewater projects, leveraging innovative technologies and driving technical excellence. The ideal candidate will possess Chartered Status and relevant industry experience, contributing to vital societal impacts.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Health cash plan

Wellbeing support programs

Flexible holiday leave

Annual bonus schemes

Qualifications

• Significant experience in the UK water sector.
• Ability to support bids and proposals.
• Strong communication skills with internal and client teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage multi-disciplinary teams on wastewater projects.
• Drive technical excellence and ensure timely project delivery.
• Build relationships with client leadership teams.

Skills

Communication

Technical leadership

Collaboration

Education

Chartered Status (CEng)

Job description

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Location/s:Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Newport, Croydon, Cambridge, Reading & London; 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 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.

Overview Of The Role

Having been appointed to a large UK water consultancy framework in 2024, we are looking for a Engineering Manager to manage a multi-disciplinary team and lead the delivery of our waste water programme of works. You would build on the good work done in establishing our framework and work with our technical discipline leads to ensure projects within the clean water programme are delivered on time, budget and drive technical excellence. This will be a customer facing role requiring close working relationships with the client leadership team as part of a collaborative.

The role is expected to progress and evolve in line with the framework requirements and the candidates’ own skills and development areas. It offers an excellent opportunity to create future-proofed services and solutions that embrace latest innovations in digital technology and the chance to mentor the next generation of talent within our business.

Candidate specification

Essential

• Chartered Status (CEng) with a recognised Professional Institution
• An understanding of conventional and innovative water and/or wastewater treatment technologies
• Track record of engineering technical leadership
• Significant 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 as well as Client teams
• Desire to take a leading role with client engagement
• Ability to travel to client offices and sites as required
  
  

Desirable

• Track record in building teams and capability of junior staff
• Understanding of key water sector wastewater treatment and sustainability needs
• Understanding of drivers for wastewater treatment investment in England and Wales
• Excellent technical report writing skills using concise English
  
  

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.

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 [e-mail] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

We are happy to talk openly about flexible working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

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.
  
  

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.

Location(s):

Cardiff, GB Newport, GB London, GB Birmingham, GB Reading, GB Bristol, GB Cambridge, GB Croydon, GB

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Water

Discipline: Water

Job Ref: 9306

Recruiter Contact: Nicola Coyle

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Civil Engineering

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