Design Manager - Wastewater
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Occupation Type
Research and development (r&d) managers
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
Sponsorship Salary Threshold
£54,400
(£27.90 per hour)
Occupation rate applies
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Description
Location/s: Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Cambridge, Reading, London, Brighton, Leeds & Exeter; UK
Recruiter contact: Nicola Coyle
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.
Recruiter contact: Nicola Coyle
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 The Business Division
The Water Utilities Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to the UK and Ireland's water and wastewater challenges. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations, preventing urban flooding, and improving the health of our rivers and coastal environments. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies to outline and detailed design. Together, we deliver best-in-class solutions to our clients while offering diverse and technically stimulating opportunities to our people.
Overview Of The Role
Having been appointed to a large UK water consultancy framework in 2024, we are looking for a Design Manager to manage a multi-disciplinary team and lead the delivery of our waste water programme of works. You would build on the good work done in establishing our framework and work with our technical discipline leads to ensure projects within the clean water programme are delivered on time, budget and drive technical excellence. This will be a customer facing role requiring close working relationships with the client leadership team as part of a collaborative.
The role is expected to progress and evolve in line with the framework requirements and the candidates’ own skills and development areas. It offers an excellent opportunity to create future-proofed services and solutions that embrace latest innovations in digital technology and the chance to mentor the next generation of talent within our business.
Candidate specification
The Water Utilities Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to the UK and Ireland's water and wastewater challenges. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations, preventing urban flooding, and improving the health of our rivers and coastal environments. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies to outline and detailed design. Together, we deliver best-in-class solutions to our clients while offering diverse and technically stimulating opportunities to our people.
Overview Of The Role
Having been appointed to a large UK water consultancy framework in 2024, we are looking for a Design Manager to manage a multi-disciplinary team and lead the delivery of our waste water programme of works. You would build on the good work done in establishing our framework and work with our technical discipline leads to ensure projects within the clean water programme are delivered on time, budget and drive technical excellence. This will be a customer facing role requiring close working relationships with the client leadership team as part of a collaborative.
The role is expected to progress and evolve in line with the framework requirements and the candidates’ own skills and development areas. It offers an excellent opportunity to create future-proofed services and solutions that embrace latest innovations in digital technology and the chance to mentor the next generation of talent within our business.
Candidate specification
Essential
- Chartered Status (CEng) with a recognised Professional Institution
- An understanding of conventional and innovative water and/or wastewater treatment technologies
- Track record of engineering technical leadership
- Significant experience in development and delivery of feasibility and outline design solutions within the UK water sector
- Ability to support bids, fee proposals or offers of service
- Ability to check and review technical deliverables, calculations and reports
- Strong communication skills with experience in effective collaboration across internal multi-disciplinary teams as well as Client teams
- Desire to take a leading role with client engagement
- Ability to travel to client offices and sites as required
- Track record in building teams and capability of junior staff
- Understanding of key water sector wastewater treatment and sustainability needs
- Understanding of drivers for wastewater treatment investment in England and Wales
- Excellent technical report writing skills using concise English
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.
Agile working
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.
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 whereeveryonefeels they can contribute.
Accessibility
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.
Agile working
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.
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 whereeveryonefeels 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 atreasonable.adjustments@mottmac.comand we will talk to you about how we can support you.
We Offer Some Fantastic Benefits Including
Financial wellbeing
We Offer Some Fantastic Benefits Including
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.
- Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
- Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 oursocial outcomes.
Location(s):
Cardiff, GB Croydon, GB London, GB Exeter, GB Leeds, GB Reading, GB Bristol, GB Manchester, GB Brighton, GB Cambridge, GB Birmingham, GB
Contract Type:
Permanent
Work Pattern: Full Time
Market: Water
Discipline: Water
Job Ref: 13315
Recruiter Contact: Nicola Coyle
Work Pattern: Full Time
Market: Water
Discipline: Water
Job Ref: 13315
Recruiter Contact: Nicola Coyle