Engineer jobs in United Kingdom

Location/s: Brighton or Leicester, UK

Recruiter contact: Maria Marchidan

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.

The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across several 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.

Our team based in the United Kingdom and Italy is growing and we are looking for an experienced Mechanical Engineer to join us.

Due to recent new wins, and with further exciting opportunities in the pipeline, we are looking for a mechanical engineer with experience in combined cycles who can take the lead of our detail design thermal process engineering team as well as lead owner engineering services.

You will also work closely with our existing team members, clients and sub contractors to continue to build on this success and be a key part of Mott MacDonald's growth in Italy.

• Work on projects delivery and support for proposals relevant to combined cycle projects, simple cycle gas turbines plants, hydrogen, CCUS and in general with energy transition projects
• Lead the process engineering team to deliver detail design services
• Work on projects delivering consultancy and Owner Engineering services
• Support for proposal preparation
• Collaborate with other offices of MM Group for proposals preparation and project delivery
• Travel abroad to meet Clients during projects delivery and proposals
• Delivering projects in accordance with agreed schedules at various stages including feasibility/planning/ preparation of tender stage technical drawings and specifications/production of construction drawings and design compliance monitoring at construction stage for Power Plant application
• Coordination with client project team and internal team disciplines within Mott MacDonald including civil, mechanical, environmental
• Enhancing our business development and delivering projects in new technologies including hydrogen, CCUS and thermal transition in general

• Mechanical Engineer, with MS degree in mechanical engineering with adequate experience in thermal power plants design and projects implementation preferably covering from proposal stage, to implementation (engineering, procurement, construction) phase, performance test
• Experience in international projects and in international environmental
• Competence/knowledge in gas turbines, steam turbines, steam and water cycle, BoP systems for power plants
• Experience in team leading
• Good understanding of the basic and detail design of thermal power plants, combined cycles, open cycle gas turbines, CHP, etc
• Must have excellent oral and communication skills and be proficient in the English language

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.

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 commits. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well‑being, flexibility, and trust.

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.

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 reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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