OPPORTUNITY:

This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to join Mott MacDonald’s Special Services team, part of our Heavy Civils Infrastructure Division based in Mott MacDonald’s Croydon office.
Mott MacDonald’s Special Services team was established more than forty years ago to develop innovative solutions to emerging engineering challenges. Since then we have continued to grow and evolve, having established an enviable track record of innovation and excellence in the industry. Our people are talented and inquisitive individuals with a love of technical challenges and problem-solving, drawn from diverse backgrounds including materials technology, civil and structural engineering, advanced structural analysis, applied technology and the management of civil engineering assets. Our projects are rich and varied and involve a wide range of asset types across their full asset lifecycle, from creation to decommissioning, in sectors from transportation and utilities to energy and defence. Our clients include national infrastructure owners, major contractors, international development agencies and industry research bodies, and we also provide specialist technical support to colleagues across the wider Mott MacDonald organisation.
Our expertise has been gained over many years through delivery on high profile projects in the UK and internationally, including Crossrail, High Speed 2, BART Silicon Valley Phase II, Thames Tideway and Sydney Metro. Our clients’ drive to improve efficiency in creating and maintaining durable infrastructure, while reducing its associated carbon emissions, continues to create exciting opportunities for our expertise and to support our growth strategy. As a result, we are currently seeking to recruit a Technical Principal or Technical Director in Materials Engineering to join us and take a senior role on our team, helping to shape its future and ensure its continued success.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

This is an opportunity to take a senior role in our high performing team and to help to shape it and share in its success. As a Technical Principal/ Director you will share responsibility for leading, strengthening and growing our materials technology/engineering workstream and contribute to the leadership and success of our wider Special Services team.
You will help to lead and grow a small team of specialist material technologists/engineers delivering a diverse workload ranging from answering materials-related technical queries from colleagues and clients to supporting the materials design, deterioration modelling, specification and construction-stage troubleshooting of large and complex construction projects worldwide.
You will take personal responsibility for the technical and commercial outcomes of a variety of projects and delivering sustainable and cost-effective solutions for our internal and external clients.
You will have a remit to strengthen our materials workstream, help guide its technical direction and support its growth and successful technical and commercial performance. This will require you to use your professional knowledge and network to improve our team’s profile in the industry, identify opportunities for new work, develop sound technical solutions, produce bids in response to tenders and be successful in winning and delivering new work for yourself and colleagues. You will have line management responsibility for others in the team and be responsible for supporting their development and strengthening the team through targeted recruitment as opportunities allow.
You will collaborate and work closely with colleagues with expertise in other fields, including advanced structural engineering and analysis and the management of civil engineering asset, to contribute to the overall success of our other main workstreams and overall team.

Your main responsibilities will include the following:

• Helping to lead and grow the materials engineering workstream through engagement with new and existing clients to win exciting and challenging new projects.
• Raising the profile of the workstream, and of our wider team, within the industry through helping to publicise its capabilities, strengths and successes. This will require you to be involved in producing technical papers and articles for publication, attending meetings and conferences and giving presentations.
• Providing technical direction and leadership to our team and ensuring application of sound and appropriate technical approaches in developing solutions, ensuring the highest technical standards are met and quality assurance processes are in place and are rigorously followed.
• Identifying opportunities with new and existing clients, developing proposals and bids in response to tenders, and winning interesting and rewarding new work for yourself and the team.
• Ensuring the technical and commercial outcomes of our projects, and of the overall workstream, and achieving high levels of client satisfaction with our solutions and deliverables.
• Producing technical reports and other project deliverables to a high standard and supervising and guiding others to do the same through reviewing, checking and approval of their work.
• Team development through line management, mentoring and guiding the technical and professional development of colleagues and, as appropriate, through selective recruitment.

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.

• Helping to lead and grow the materials engineering workstream through engagement with new and existing clients to win exciting and challenging new projects.
• Raising the profile of the workstream, and of our wider team, within the industry through helping to publicise its capabilities, strengths and successes. This will require you to be involved in producing technical papers and articles for publication, attending meetings and conferences and giving presentations.
• Providing technical direction and leadership to our team and ensuring application of sound and appropriate technical approaches in developing solutions, ensuring the highest technical standards are met and quality assurance processes are in place and are rigorously followed.
• Identifying opportunities with new and existing clients, developing proposals and bids in response to tenders, and winning interesting and rewarding new work for yourself and the team.
• Ensuring the technical and commercial outcomes of our projects, and of the overall workstream, and achieving high levels of client satisfaction with our solutions and deliverables.
• Producing technical reports and other project deliverables to a high standard and supervising and guiding others to do the same through reviewing, checking and approval of their work.
• Team development through line management, mentoring and guiding the technical and professional development of colleagues and, as appropriate, through selective recruitment