Civil Engineer - Digital

Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy. 
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities. 

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs. 

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence. 

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

Job Description:
We are looking for new team members to join our enthusiastic, diverse and growing Information Management team. You will be part of our Information Management network responsible for implementing the latest digital design delivery methods and improved ways of working across our major projects. Our team works with a range of major project clients, predominantly in the transportation sector in the UK and North America. Our focus lies in the development of innovative digital project solutions to drive efficiency during the delivery of our built environment projects.

This is an opportunity to apply and further develop your data analysis skills within the civil engineering sector, whether actively working on solutions that help our clients in achieving their objectives towards Net Zero, or supporting engineering design teams on meeting programme milestones by applying information management best practices. You’ll be part of a highly successful and innovative team where curiosity is encouraged in the delivery of built assets, spanning from railways and roads to bridges and tunnels. 

Here at Mott MacDonald, we encourage you to be creative in approaching the People, Process and Technology behind common challenges to effectively enable the best possible outcomes. To do this you’ll work collaboratively as part of a team alongside engineers, technologists and other digital consultants. With their support you will develop and deliver these solutions and make a positive contribution to the safety, performance and sustainability of our clients’ infrastructure, for the benefit of society.

Responsibilities:

• Working as part of a team to help define and develop approaches for getting value from data, as well as working independently on specific data analysis tasks. 
• Applying rigorous quality procedures for management of version control and audit trail. 
• Researching and evaluating the potential application of new and emerging technologies. 
• Helping to create decision support tools that combine, contextualize, and create value from collected data. 
• Communicating findings to both technical and non-technical people, verbally, statistically, in writing, through visualizations and presentations. 
• Facilitate change at scale using change management principles

Candidate Specification:
You’ll enjoy taking on technical challenges and using your analytical nature, your understanding of data and your analysis skills to develop effective solutions. You will be motivated by the satisfaction that comes from working as a team to improve project delivery and the satisfaction that comes from seeing your work turned into reality to benefit society. You will use your aptitude for creative problem-solving alongside a rigorous, thorough and structured approach to the organising and exploration of data. You’ll be interested in researching and applying new and developing technologies for data capture and analysis, and excited by the opportunities that they bring to help you in your role. You’ll enjoy engaging with others, including specialists from a wide range of engineering disciplines to help understand and interpret data and to develop tools that help to visualize and explore it, supporting effective decision-making and performance in delivery.

We’d also like you to:

• Be educated to Degree or Masters level in a STEM discipline. 
• Have knowledge of agile delivery methodologies. 
• Be familiar with built environment project deliverables and contractual requirements. 
• Good working knowledge of ISO19650 industry standards and its implementation within project delivery. 
• Have experience working within Common Data Environments, such as ProjectWise or Autodesk Construction Cloud. 
• An understanding of programming concepts and methods, databases and/or data analysis. 
• Be intellectually curious and find reward in applying your technical skills and creativity to meet challenges and solve problems. 
• Excellent written and verbal skills, be able to effectively collaborate and communicate with technical specialists from other disciplines and with non-technical people in language that they will understand. 
• Be logical and thorough with strong problem-solving skills, ideally with some experience gained in a technical or business environment. 
• Be self-reliant and motivated to look beyond the immediate task, see the bigger picture and identify opportunities to grow and do things better, providing added value to colleagues and clients. 

If you meet 80% or more of what we’re looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.

Job Profile:
Mott MacDonald is a uniquely diverse employee-owned, engineering and development consultancy serving the public and private sector around the world. We are a value driven company, employee owned and the first engineering, management, and development consultancy to be certified carbon neutral, globally. 

We are presently looking to recruit a Civil Engineer passionate about helping us to solve complex problems and develop innovative solutions in the field of physical and digital infrastructure. 

UK Immigration

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.

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.

Accessibility

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.

Agile working 

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• 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.

Financial wellbeing

• 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.

Lifestyle

• 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 and carers leave

• 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.

 Learning and development

• 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.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• 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.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.