Senior Civil Engineer (Drainage)

Mott MacDonald

Position location: Belgrade, Serbia
Recruiter contact: Martin Keown

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.

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

About the business unit:
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. 

About the role:
Our office-based department provides Civil and Structural expertise across Substation, HVDC Converter Station, Overhead Line, and Cable projects. We are looking for a Civil Engineer with minimum five to eight years of experience to join our Digital Award winning High Voltage (HV) Civil and Structural Team based in Genova, Italy, Madrid, Spain or Belgrade, Serbia. The role will span a diverse portfolio of work and there will be opportunities for advancement within the team. 

The selected candidate will carry out work on HV Substation, HVDC Converter Station, Overhead Line and Cable projects, fulfilling tasks including:
Design and Development functions:

• Project Management.
• Proposal Writing.
• Scheme Costing.
• Front End Engineering Design (FEED).
• Preparation of drawings for use in planning applications and tender packages.
• Detailed Civil Design: drawings, cross-sections, and 3D models
• Design Coordination across multidisciplinary teams.
• Preparation of Specifications.
• Condition and Structural Assessment of existing structures to determine suitability for reuse.
• Technical background in hydraulic analysis such as: transmission pipelines, hydraulic design of water and wastewater treatment works, stormwater storage design.
• Experienced in development of hydraulic calculations and hydraulic profiles for water and wastewater treatment works.
• Technical knowledge on sustainable drainage management and flood management, how to adapt our infrastructure to meet the challenges of a changing climate.
• Water quality systems design (construction and operational design considering oil/silt contaminants)
• At the outset we would expect some experience in all named areas but, should your application be successful, you will have the opportunity to learn from other team members and to further develop your skills.
• Willingness to engage with new challenges as well as an ability to work confidently on tasks for which they have prior experience.
• Demonstrate good written communication skills including report writing.
• Excellent communication and people skills. You will be in a client facing role and will be expected to liaise with clients and contractors both on-site and over the phone.
• Degree in Civil engineering. They should also be a Chartered Engineer or be working towards applying chartership now.
• Prepared to undertake leadership role and assist in further development of the team.
• Previous experience as an Engineer working with Transmission and Distribution (T&D) Networks in high voltage substations and cable routing projects would be an advantage.
• Detailed knowledge of construction health and safety regulations and preferably, although not essential, knowledge of transmission network operator’s construction practices.
• Awareness of process, equipment layout and associated considerations such as RFI.

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:

• Employee is entitled to meal allowance in amount of RSD 500 per month. 

• Annual leave allowance of RSD 500 per month. 

• Reimbursement of the monthly costs of public transport to work in line with the actual cost and price of the public transport. 

• Employee is entitled to annual leave of 22 working days. Employee must make every effort to use their full entitlement during the year in which it has been earned. A maximum of 10 working days leave may be carried over into the next calendar year. 

• Employee is entitled to additional annual leave of 3 days after 5 full years from the day of employment, which amounts to a total of 25 days of annual leave. 

• Employer will provide life insurance cover up to 1-time annual gross salary. 

• Employer will provide accident insurance cover (For the cases of partial or full disability due to accident) up to 2 times annual basic salary. 

• Employees are entailed to participate in the GIS which is a performance base of performing sharing scheme Group incentive scheme 2022 (sharepoint.com) 

• You have the possibility of agile working  

• You have the opportunity to participate to the employee referral scheme Global referral schemes (sharepoint.com) which currently pays Euro 800 / successful hire. 

• Employee Assistance Program EAP Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) Services (sharepoint.com) 

• Reimbursement for one professional membership per year or your annual charter ship 

• Health and wellbeing: FIT PASS (Access hundreds of the best gyms, fitness studios, 
  swimming pools and sports centres throughout Serbia!) 

• You have free access to the  Group wellbeing and mental health (sharepoint.com) initiatives. 

• You have free access to MM’s e-learning courses, technical learning on EUNA (Europe and UK) Campus, and other learning and development opportunities such as lunchtime learnings, online courses and workshops.