Principal C&I Engineer

Mott MacDonald; Altrincham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Mott MacDonald seeks a Principal C&I Engineer to lead control and instrumentation projects within the energy sector. This role offers strategic and technical leadership, ensuring adherence to safety and quality standards while overseeing multidisciplinary teams. Ideal candidates will have a degree in electrical engineering and chartered status, with a strong background in C&I design and project management.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Health cash plan

Flexible working policy

Enhanced family leave policies

Annual professional institution subscription

Qualifications

• Deep technical expertise in control and instrumentation.
• Proven ability to check and approve work to the highest standards.
• Up-to-date knowledge of C&I technology.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in control and instrumentation work on projects.
• Define and oversee planning of control and instrumentation scopes.
• Ensure compliance with discipline-related legal obligations.

Skills

Leadership

Technical expertise in control and instrumentation

Project management

Education

Degree in electrical engineering or equivalent

Chartered status and membership of a relevant professional body

Job description

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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 Unit

The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across a number of sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design, to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension. Together with our clients, we’re helping to deliver the energy transition globally.

About The Role

Our Nuclear; Defence and Civil division delivers projects to a wide range of clients across the defence, existing, and nuclear new build sectors. Due to recent project wins and the continued growth of our business, we are recruiting a Principal C&I Engineer to join our team. The role will involve providing strategic and technical leadership in the delivery of C&I designs in line with project requirements, while offering oversight and guidance to multi disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in the execution of control and instrumentation work on projects, in accordance with C&I design instructions and company/project procedures.
• Champion and ensure adherence to safety, quality, cost, and schedule targets across project delivery.
• Define and oversee the planning of control and instrumentation scopes of work across multiple projects or complex workstreams.
• Lead input into project planning, risk management, and execution strategies.
• Approve budgets and manpower forecasts; contribute to resource planning across the team.
• Delegate work and deliverables effectively, ensuring clarity of scope, quality expectations, and deadlines.
• Provide high-level technical review and approval of deliverables to ensure compliance with required standards.
• Represent the discipline at engineering meetings and high-level client interfaces; lead cross-functional collaboration where required.
• Ensure compliance with all discipline-related legal obligations, including CDM, safety (including application of the EDSPS), environmental and site licence conditions. Ensure deliverables and engineering solutions are technically sound and defensible.
• Promote and ensure understanding and application of relevant legislation, as well as client- and project-specific policies, procedures, and design standards.
  
  

Requirements

• Degree qualified in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• Chartered status and membership of a relevant professional body.
• Deep technical expertise in all aspects of control and instrumentation, including:
• Design basis to P&ID developments
• Systems architecture drawings
• Communication and cable selection, routing, and cable management drawings
• Field instrumentation selection
• Control and safety systems, including safety PLC systems
• Control and instrumentation cabinet design
• Instrumentation loop drawings and hook-up diagrams
• Compiling instrument data sheets
• Writing user requirement specifications
• Writing C&I design reports and specifications
• Proven ability to check and approve work of others to the highest technical standards.
• Up-to-date knowledge of developments in C&I technology, including fieldbus and wireless systems.
• Demonstrable experience and working knowledge of relevant standards and CDM legislation.
• Track record of delivering technically robust documentation to the required standard and within schedule.
  
  

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.

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.

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 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):

Glasgow, GB Reading, GB Bristol, GB Altrincham, GB

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Energy

Discipline: Energy

Job Ref: 8841

Recruiter Contact: Erinda Hazizi

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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