Materials Engineer

at  Mott MacDonald

Materials Engineer
Country: United Kingdom
Position Location: Croydon, UK / Birmingham, UK / Sheffield, UK
Contract Type: Permanent
Work Pattern: Full Time
Market: Transport
Discipline: Structural
Job Ref: 5984
Recruiter Contact: Ainsley Anstess

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.
We are looking for a motivated, proactive Materials Engineer to join our Special Services team. You will be working with other Materials Engineers, Civil and Structural Engineers within a highly skilled specialist team. You will be working on unique, technically demanding projects across a range of sectors. This will involve addressing technical queries, preparing durability assessments for new structures including durability modelling, writing specifications, conducting on-site inspections and investigations of structures, reviewing available data, developing remedial and maintenance options, and providing advice on sustainable solutions, asset management and technical problem solving. You will need the capability and willingness to take responsibility for interacting directly with clients and ensuring that their needs are met by efficiently producing high quality project deliverables.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

You’ll manage your own work on a variety of projects of various sizes across different project stages and ensure work is carried out to a high standard and following necessary quality, environmental and safety requirements. You will share your skills and knowledge across the team as well as develop knowledge from disciplines teams when necessary. Additionally, you will develop and strengthen your skills to be involved in more specialist areas such as developing state-of-the-art models to simulate the behaviour of different material properties exposed to selected environments.

Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Preparing durability assessments which involves identifying potential deterioration mechanisms of structural elements and other construction products and developing solutions to ensure the structure will achieve its design life
• Providing general advice, detailed technical input or developing innovative and sustainable solutions for both internal and external clients
• Ensuring the deliverables meet project requirements, including handling of internal/ external client expectations and relationships
• Contributing to a variety of global projects, both small and large, and project stages, providing technical input and quality deliverables to British, European or International Standards
• Planning and undertaking inspections and condition surveys, and overseeing materials testing on a variety of structures such as tunnels, buildings, walls, bridges
• Ensuring effective communication with colleagues on the project team, with clients and other stakeholders, both verbally and in writing

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.

• Preparing durability assessments which involves identifying potential deterioration mechanisms of structural elements and other construction products and developing solutions to ensure the structure will achieve its design life
• Providing general advice, detailed technical input or developing innovative and sustainable solutions for both internal and external clients
• Ensuring the deliverables meet project requirements, including handling of internal/ external client expectations and relationships
• Contributing to a variety of global projects, both small and large, and project stages, providing technical input and quality deliverables to British, European or International Standards
• Planning and undertaking inspections and condition surveys, and overseeing materials testing on a variety of structures such as tunnels, buildings, walls, bridges
• Ensuring effective communication with colleagues on the project team, with clients and other stakeholders, both verbally and in writin