Engineering Project Manager - Belfast

Mott MacDonald; Belfast; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Employee pension contributions match

Flexible benefits programme for holidays

Job summary

Mott MacDonald in Belfast seeks an Engineering Project Manager to manage multidisciplinary teams and deliver innovative solutions in the water and wastewater sector. You will work with clients and contractors to build robust relationships, lead project design, and ensure compliance with technical quality standards.

Successful candidates will have experience in water pipeline design and project management in a multidisciplinary environment. The position offers extensive benefits including private medical insurance and a minimum of 33 days of holiday.

Qualifications

• Experience in clean/potable water pipeline design and/or wastewater network and associated infrastructure design.
• Demonstrable understanding of hydraulic engineering principles.
• Proven project management capability in a multidisciplinary environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage multidisciplinary teams and deliver projects in partnership with clients.
• Lead design of innovative solutions for leakage challenges and water networks.
• Coordinate project teams from design definition to implementation.

Skills

Clean/potable water pipeline design

Hydraulic engineering principles

Project management

Communication skills

Job description

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 multidisciplinary 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

As the Engineering Project Manager, the successful candidate will work with and manage a multidisciplinary team of technical specialists, delivering projects in close partnership with clients and contractors, building strong relationships that will enhance the company’s reputation and help secure further work. In this role, they will lead the design of innovative and sustainable solutions to address leakage challenges, clean‑water provision and sewage disposal across our client’s water networks. Some projects are emergency work and reactive in nature, so you will need to lead fast‑paced design while managing change and impacts on the other projects within the wider programme. You will be expected to coordinate project teams throughout the project lifecycle from design definition through to implementation, fulfilling all aspects to successfully manage projects, including business management system compliance, technical quality assurance, programme and cost control management, as well as leading client interface.

You will work closely with contractors, often on site, reacting to queries and changes. You will represent the company in meetings and supervise the work of more junior staff, providing technical and commercial guidance to support their development.

Candidate specification

• Experience in clean / potable water pipeline design and/or wastewater network and associated infrastructure design
• A demonstrable understanding of hydraulic engineering principles
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary water pipeline and networks projects with other technical disciplines including environmental specialists, geotechnical, structural, electrical and mechanical engineers
• Proven project management capability, having managed multiple and/or complex projects in a multidisciplinary environment using a proactive approach coupled with an ability to adapt to changing scenarios
• Good understanding of designers’ responsibilities under CDM
• Strong collaboration and communication skills to enter into technical discussions in a logical and coherent fashion in both oral presentations and written reports, to colleagues, non‑technical staff and clients
• A drive to be abreast of professional development and knowledge of current and emerging technical solutions

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is 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 the 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.

Benefits

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with everyday 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 programme, 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× your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6× 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.

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