Senior Principal ITS Engineer

Location/s: UK-wide
Recruiter contact: Alice Roostan
 

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. 

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. 

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About our division 
We are Transport Mobility Solutions (TMS) Transport planners and modellers, highway design and asset specialists, technologists, and aviation and carbon consultants. We solve our clients'future transport problems to benefit their customers.
Our vision is to be recognised by the market, and our colleagues at Mott MacDonald, as renowned pioneers in our industry. To lead the way, as a connected centre of technical excellence, industry influence and innovation.

Our goals are:

• Thriving culture - Inspire and encourage our people through leadership and development to live and breathe the TMS Way
• Delivering excellence - Known as a diverse network where people, energy and ideas come together to deliver excellence
• Partnering with our clients - Trusted by our clients to understand and deliver on their goals through commercial confidence and collaboration

The ITS Engineering and Consultancy team is part of the Technology Services team within the Transport and Mobility Solutions (TMS) Division at Mott MacDonald. We provide client support from feasibility studies through detailed design to post installation analysis for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). Mott MacDonald help clients deliver high-quality transport technology solutions across local roads, the highway network, and public transport. 
  
Technology Services are currently growing a highly skilled and customer-focused team in response to an increasing number of secured schemes and potential future opportunities. We require design and engineering skills across the entire ITS spectrum to develop and implement schemes for local, national and international highway projects. Projects range from high profile smart motorways schemes to local equipment installations, such as VMS, CCTV and meteorological stations. 

Overview of the role
We are seeking an individual who will contribute technically to Mott MacDonald’s technology services ITS Engineering and Consultancy team. This may include work on a specific project seconded into our client in the South East region. This would involve weekly travel to the Hampshire area to visit our client. As a separate matter, your main Mott MacDonald office location will be discussed at interview stage. The weekly travel to Hampshire would be coordinated with other colleagues seconded into our client, several of which are based in the Bristol and Southampton Mott MacDonald offices as their main location.

Depending on the project in the South East region, either from the start or in due course, your role will primarily be centred around designing and specifying a varied range of ITS projects using your skills and experience to deliver technical excellence to schemes on behalf of our clients. You will also have experience with supervising other team members, and this may include mentoring, support, training, and general guidance within their day-to-day activities. You will be a member of a professional body (e.g. Institute of Highway Engineers, Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation, Institution of Engineer & Technology). The ability to travel and the flexibility to work from different offices/locations on occasion would be beneficial.

Candidate Specification
You will most likely have an engineering background with a track record of design input (at any stage of the process) to ITS projects. You will have a detailed understanding of ITS and/or related technologies, along with a broad insight to developing trends across the transport sector, together with their operational applications to meet client needs.  
  
Essential:

• BEng / BSc (in engineering or related subject) or relevant professional experience 
• A track record in the design of ITS schemes in the UK 
• A good working knowledge of national standards, equipment capabilities and design specifications 
• Chartership with a relevant institution 

 
Desirable:

• Experience of working with Highways England and UK local authorities
• Experience of designing major project ITS schemes
• Experience of working in a collaborative environment
• Project management experience in an ITS project context
• Ability to develop relationships and engender trust with clients and partners
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong sense of initiative
• Sector 8 Accreditation

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.

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  

We are happy to talk openly about 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.

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