Assistant Principal/Senior Civil Engineer (Treatment Plant)

Mott MacDonald

Mumbai

On-site

INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000

Full time

8 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Agile working

Group medical insurance

Paternity Leave

Group term life insurance

Career mobility options

Global collaboration

Job summary

Mott MacDonald is seeking a civil and hydraulic engineering leader to drive water and wastewater treatment design. You will oversee hydraulic design elements, manage multidisciplinary interfaces, and ensure technical quality across project stages.

You will mentor junior engineers, support bids, and engage clients while traveling to project sites as needed. Flexible working and career mobility options are available within a global team.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering; master's in Civil/Environmental preferred.
Chartered Engineer status or progress toward chartership is desirable.
Significant experience leading hydraulic design for water/wastewater.

Responsibilities

Lead civil and hydraulic design for water and wastewater projects.
Coordinate with disciplines to ensure integrated design solutions.
Develop design calculations, reports, specifications, drawings.
Support feasibility, outline and detailed design, construction support.
Ensure safety, quality, and compliance with standards.
Provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Technical leadership

Civil engineering design

Hydraulic design

Multidisciplinary coordination

Stakeholder management

Mentoring and coaching

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

Master's degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering

Chartered Engineer status (Desirable)

Tools

Hydraulic modelling tools

BIM / digital engineering

Design collaboration platforms

Job description

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy committed to delivering impactful work that shapes the future.

We are a team of over 20,000 experts working across the world in more than 50 countries.

We are proud to be part of an ever-changing global industry, delivering transformative work that’s defining our future. It’s our people who power that performance. As an employee-owned business, we invest in creating a space for everyone to feel safe and valued and empowered with the right tools and support.

Whether you want to pursue excellence in your specialism or broaden your experience with flexible roles across our business, you’ll be connected to a community of global experts championing you to be your best. Join us and shape your story with Mott MacDonald, where everyone has the opportunity to be brilliant.

Job Purpose

To provide technical leadership in the planning, design, and delivery of civil and hydraulic engineering solutions for water and wastewater treatment projects. The role is responsible for leading hydraulic design activities, assuring technical quality, coordinating multidisciplinary interfaces, managing technical risk, and supporting successful project delivery across all project stages.

Roles And Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Design Delivery

Lead civil and hydraulic engineering design for water and wastewater treatment works and associated infrastructure.
Take technical responsibility for hydraulic design elements including treatment plant hydraulics, pumping systems, pipelines, channels, tanks, chambers and flow control structures.
Develop and review hydraulic profiles, headloss assessments, flow balancing and system performance evaluations.
Prepare, review and approve design calculations, technical reports, specifications and drawings.
Support feasibility studies, optioneering, outline design, detailed design and construction support activities.
Ensure compliance with client requirements, applicable standards, health and safety obligations and internal quality procedures.

Multidisciplinary Coordination & Project Delivery

Coordinate with process, mechanical, electrical, ICA, structural and geotechnical disciplines to ensure integrated design solutions.
Identify, manage and communicate technical risks, assumptions, constraints and interfaces.
Support design reviews, hazard reviews, value engineering and technical assurance processes.
Provide technical support during construction, commissioning and issue resolution activities.
Apply safe-by-design principles in all engineering activities.
Contribute to risk identification, mitigation and continuous improvement initiatives.

Client & Business Support

Contribute to bid submissions, proposals and client-facing technical discussions.
Support client engagement, technical assurance and project delivery performance.
Contribute to business development activities and proposal development.
Travel to project offices and sites as required.

Team Leadership & Capability Development

Mentor and guide junior engineers and designers.
Provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary project teams.
Promote knowledge sharing, innovation and continuous improvement within the discipline.
Support the growth of technical capability and engineering best practices across the business.

Candidate Specifications

Qualifications

Essential

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or a related discipline.
Master's degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering.

Desirable

Chartered Engineer status or actively working towards chartership with a recognised professional institution.

Experience

Essential

Significant experience in civil and hydraulic engineering design for water and wastewater treatment projects.
Demonstrable experience leading technical delivery on multidisciplinary engineering projects.
Experience preparing and reviewing high-quality engineering calculations, technical reports, specifications and design documentation.

Desirable

Experience delivering major treatment works or complex water-sector programmes.
Experience in design management, project planning and resource coordination.
Experience supporting construction-stage activities and contractor engagement.

Essential

Technical Knowledge & Skills

Strong understanding of treatment works hydraulics and associated civil infrastructure.
Good knowledge of relevant industry standards, codes and engineering design practices.
Ability to manage technical complexity, competing priorities and project deadlines.
Strong problem-solving, communication and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable

Familiarity with hydraulic modelling tools and specialist engineering software.
Knowledge of digital engineering, BIM and design collaboration platforms.

Key Competencies

Technical leadership
Engineering judgement and decision making
Collaboration and multidisciplinary coordination
Quality and risk management
Client focus and stakeholder engagement
Communication and influencing skills
Planning and delivery focus
Coaching and mentoring

Flexible working

At Mott MacDonald, we support our staff to create work-life balance which works for them and welcome candidates looking for career flexibility. We are open to discussing flexible working at interview stage.

Our benefits package is designed to enhance your experience: