Senior Civil Structural Engineer

Mott MacDonald

Position location: Genova, Italy
Recruiter contact: Maria Cervantes

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.

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. 

Job description: 

We are looking for a civil structural engineer to join our Genoa team to work on our major multidisciplinary detailed design projects.
As well as contributing to these new and existing projects, this position will play an active role in improving our project management processes and approach, driving both delivery excellence and efficiency in our business.

You will work with our team of engineers, technicians and draftsmen to deliver our work to specified standards and project schedule, while following our project governance. 
As part of your day-to-day work, you will be responsible for analysing project documents, Detail design of concrete structure, bar bending checks, Detail design steel structure including connection details, 3D model review, Design review, client liaison. 
You are expected to Design in accordingly with the applicable Codes & standard (European and international), prepare input for draftsman, examine, mark-up and align documentation and drawings. 

Currently we are developing projects in Thermal & Nuclear sectors, Wind and Solar, BESS, hydropower and our involvement is also in other sectors like Metros (UK & Canada), railways (UK), etc. providing a wide range of services to owners, contractors and developers, including feasibility, planning, detailed design, owner’s engineering and site supervision.

Candidate specification:

• You will be Degree qualified in Civil or Structural Engineering and have a very good understanding of power generation projects and the complete design lifecycle. You will be able to apply Value Engineering practices to optimize projects time and costs and are familiar with several international codes.
• Proven Experience with reinforced concrete and rebar and steel structure detail design in international project is expected. 
• You will be proficient in the use of FEM software (e.g.  Staad, Sap2000, GT Strudl) and, possibly, Tekla structure and Aveva E3D software.
• As the majority of our deliverables are in English, a high level of oral and written English is expected, with Italian and any other languages being a plus. 
• Proven experiences as team leader/coordinator are considered a plus, since you could be requested to coordinate design activities to maintain project schedules, budget, quality requirements to ensure successful project completion. 
• Availability to travel overseas in relation to project work is expected.

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. 

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:

• Life insurance 
• An annual professional institution subscription   
• Continuous development opportunities – because we want you to thrive  
• Agile/flexible working – because life isn’t 9-5  
• Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies – for parents and care givers  
• Annual bonus scheme  
• Flexible benefits that suit you, including ability to buy/sell annual leave entitlement, cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans 
• Wellbeing support including access to an independent Employer Assistance Scheme, wellbeing champions and access to learning and support resources 
• Access to our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities 
• The opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our social outcomes

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