Principal / Associate Civil Engineer

MOTT MACDONALD; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering consultancy in Liverpool seeks an experienced Civil Engineer to join their Local Streets and Infrastructure team. The successful applicant will manage planning, design, and implementation of infrastructure projects, ensuring adherence to quality and budget specifications. Responsibilities include client relationship management and team leadership, contributing to project delivery and business development efforts. This role offers opportunities for professional development within a supportive environment.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Pension matching contributions

33-35 days holiday

Flexible benefits programme

Qualifications

• Chartered Engineer with proven technical leadership in highway and infrastructure projects.
• Experience in delivering multidisciplinary design projects to scope, program, and budget.

Responsibilities

• Managing infrastructure project planning, design, and implementation.
• Leading and managing a team of engineers to meet client requirements.

Skills

Managerial leadership

Highway design standards knowledge

Client relationship management

Communication skills

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering or related discipline

Tools

AutoCAD

Civils 3D

Job description

Location/s: Liverpool, Altrincham and Manchester
Relocation supported: Not supported
Recruiter contact: Pamela Wray-Slack

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.

We are seeking an experienced Civil Engineer to join our established Local Streets and Infrastructure team, part of our Transport and Mobility Solutions Division in the UK.

You will be required to combine managerial leadership and technical responsibilities, promote a collaborative 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 be able to contribute to growing the local team's profile and work portfolio through successful project delivery and participation in business development.

Although this role is located in the northwest of England, you will be expected to collaborate with our wider business across the UK and overseas.

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. As a Principal /Associate Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Managing the planning, design and implementation of infrastructure projects including Section 278s, bus priority, active travel, regeneration, and transport hubs
• Managing Client relationships
• Demonstrating leadership and ensuring adherence to H&S policy and procedures
• Leading and managing a team of engineers, delivering projects to client requirements, programme and budget
• Mentoring and developing junior staff

Candidate Specification

• Degree qualified in Civil Engineering or related discipline, or extensive equivalent experience
• Chartered (or Incorporated) Engineer with a proven record of technical leadership on highway and infrastructure projects.
• Experienced in delivering multi‑disciplinary design projects, to agreed scope, programme and budget.
• Strong understanding of highway design standards (Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) / Specification for Highways Works (SHW) / Manual for Streets / LTN 1/20) and familiar with design tools such as AutoCAD and Civils 3D.
• Able to communicate confidently and professionally with colleagues, fellow professionals and clients at all levels (written and verbal).
• Experience of working with Design and Build Contractors

Desirable

• Experience of managing a team of engineers and technicians
• Experience of delivering infrastructure projects through the full lifecycle, including design and build or contractor‑led design projects
• Experience in preparing fee proposals, contributing to business development, and building client relationships, including with local authorities, government clients, private developers and contractor clients.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well‑being, flexibility, and trust.

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.

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.
• 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.