Principal Civil Engineer - Digital

Mott MacDonald; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Pension contributions

Generous holiday allowance

Professional subscriptions and mentoring

Job summary

A global engineering consultancy in Greater London seeks a senior professional to lead Information Management capability. The role includes managing client relationships, delivering projects technically and commercially, and growing the Birmingham team. Candidates should have experience in multi-disciplinary projects, a degree in Civil/Structural Engineering, and strong leadership skills. The company promotes hybrid working and offers a range of benefits enhancing health, financial wellbeing, and professional development.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering multi-disciplinary projects from concept to construction.
• Strong leadership qualities and management experience.
• Understanding of design risk management and quality assurance.

Responsibilities

• Manage client relationships and expectations.
• Ensure successful project delivery for clients and internally.
• Lead technical delivery of consultancy services.
• Coordinate and manage contract requirements.

Skills

Strong communication

Team working

Problem-solving skills

Stakeholder engagement

Influencing skills

Education

Degree in Civil/Structural Engineering (or equivalent)

Tools

ISO 19650 standards

Industry standard tools and technologies

Job description

Locations

Birmingham

Recruiter contact: Ainsley Anstess

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 global industries, delivering work that defines our future and has a societal impact. Our people power our performance, and we provide opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow. Mott MacDonald is an employee-owned business that aims to empower, include, and value everyone.

About The business unit

We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. From preparing the business case and advising on related issues such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it, our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.

Overview Of Role

You’ll be a senior member of the team, leading the growth and development of our Information Management capability within the Birmingham office. You’ll be responsible for growth targets, pipeline of work, training and development of the team whilst promoting the capability and service offering of the Information Management account.

The Information Management account is a team of 40+ digital consultants driving digital transformation on all our major projects, mostly based in Croydon and London with aspirations of increasing our footprint.

Outside of the leadership responsibilities, you’ll act as project lead driving digital transformation on major infrastructure projects. You’ll be involved with the development of strategies, planning of processes and implementation of tools to improve major project delivery. Sometimes this might be working directly with our clients, other times this might be supporting our internal delivery projects.

You will be an advocate for digital ways of working, a promoter of good information management and comfortable working closely with our clients to share our experience.

Responsibilities

• Successful management of the client relationship, managing feedback, scope change and client expectations
• Responsible for ensuring that projects are delivered successfully for the client and for Mott MacDonald, technically, commercially, and financially
• Growth and development of the Birmingham team
• Leading the technical delivery of consultancy services
• Delivery of a programme of technical solutions as agreed with the client
• Compliance with the Mott MacDonald management, quality, safety and environmental system requirements
• Coordinate and manage contract requirements (industry standard & bespoke contracts)
• Identification and management of the project delivery teams
• Maintaining knowledge of the latest industry and company best practice in digitally-enabled project delivery

Candidate specification

You will be a seasoned Digital professional with experience in the delivery of multi-disciplinary projects from concept to construction. You understand the impact that information management and digital tools has on the design and construction phase of built environment projects. You understand the design process, design risk management, construction programming, tendering process and quality assurance management. You will need to have strong leadership qualities.

You Will Also Be Able To Demonstrate The Following

• A degree in Civil/ Structural Engineering (or equivalent)
• Experience project managing multi-disciplinary projects, ideally within transport and using the ISO 19650 suite of standards
• Appetite and experience of management, growth and development of teams
• Familiarity with industry standard tools and technologies used during the delivery phase
• Strong communication, team working and problem-solving skills
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds

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 changes to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We welcome applications from candidates eligible for alternative immigration routes that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working

We offer a hybrid working policy that supports flexibility and trust to meet client, team, and personal commitments.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We promote equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute.

Accessibility

If you are disabled or need support to apply or attend an interview, please contact [e-mail] to discuss how we can support you.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits including health and wellbeing, financial wellbeing, lifestyle, enhanced family and carers leave, learning and development, and networks and communities. Details include:

• Health and wellbeing: Private medical insurance for UK colleagues; health cash plan; access to Peppy; wellbeing program; ability to flex salary for benefits
• Financial wellbeing: Pension contributions, life assurance, income protection, flexible benefits, bonus schemes
• Lifestyle: Generous holiday allowance; saving schemes and retailer discounts
• Enhanced family and carers leave: Maternity, adoption, paternity/partner leave; shared parental leave; caring leave
• Learning and development: Professional subscriptions, mentoring and training opportunities
• Networks, communities, and social outcomes: Employee networks and community involvement

Location(s): Birmingham, GB; London, GB; Croydon, GB
Contract Type: Permanent
Work Pattern: Full Time
Market: Transport
Discipline: Digital design
Job Ref: 12979
Recruiter Contact: Ainsley Anstess