Senior / Principal Consultant Decarbonisation

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

4/2/2025

Location/s: London, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Reading, Sheffield

Relocation supported:Not supported

Recruiter contact: Madeleine Knight

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 Unit

Client organisations face increasingly complex and interconnected challenges throughout their business, and drivers for change are both wide ranging and influential on each another. This includes the need to maximise investment, pursuing net zero and making the energy transition. Climate resilience, digital transformation, and environmental and social outcomes also command new ways of thinking and working.

Our range of strategic advisory capabilities help executive teams articulate the future state of their enterprise, programme or problem that aligns their people, processes, information, and technology.

Our integrated management consultancy services leverage our rich technical excellence of complex problem solving, proven through the practical delivery of projects and programmes through our asset management, business change, digital and data, and value chain solutions.

Overview Of Role

Are you motivated to support the aviation sector to become more efficient and effective in delivering their services while reducing their impact on the environment? Are you passionate about sustainability and eager to support the aviation sector to become Net Zero and resilient to climate change? Do you enjoy working within multidisciplinary teams to create pathfinding decarbonisation programmes? Then we want to hear from you! 

The role will be in the Decarbonisation Team which sits in the wider Climate Change and Sustainability Business for our Europe Region. As a Decarbonisation Principal, you will play a key role in managing large scale decarbonisation programmes for asset owners in the aviation sector and growing our decarbonisation services. You will also be responsible for collaborating with our Resilience and Sustainability Teams to provide holistic, end-to-end solutions to our clients. 

As Decarbonisation Principal, you will provide technical oversight and quality control of our decarbonisation services at an asset and portfolio level. This will include leading the development and direction of complex decarbonisation strategies and their implementation, low carbon design integration, quantitative and qualitative climate assessments, business case integration and due diligence.  

Our clients are facing significant challenges from climate change, population growth and need to change business practices quickly whilst managing sustainable growth expectations. In the aviation sector there is significant pressure to decarbonise ground operations, as well as in the air. We are supporting our clients define and deliver their decarbonisation efforts to achieve their Net Zero Targets and commitments.  

We are looking for motivated professionals, with significant experience in asset management, capital delivery or change management experience preferably in the aviation sector, to join our team based in the UK. The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated individual with a passion for building a career in solving complex challenges. You will have industry experience with a drive to embrace additional areas of learning in climate change, systems thinking, nature or circular economy, to ensure that we offer comprehensive and technically excellent advisory services to our clients.  

Candidate specification

Essential Skills And Experience

• Degree qualified in an environmental or other relevant subject. 
• Extensive knowledge of efforts (initiatives / project / commitments) in the industry to reduce the carbon impact of transportation, construction and the built environment. 
• Industry experience in asset management, ideally in transport, infrastructure or consultancy 
• Applied knowledge of PAS 2080 and its implementation. 
• Strong interpersonal, communication and writing skills. This would include the ability to review complex documents, summarise and present the key issues in a clear and concise way. 
• Project management, client liaison and consulting skills. 
  
  

Desired Skills And Experience

• Chartership with a relevant environmental or asset management professional institution. 
• Commercial awareness and project proposal preparation. 
• Organisational change management. 
• Industry experience and/or willingness to actively embrace on and off the job training in additional areas such as decarbonisation, climate resilience, systems thinking, nature-based solutions and/or circular economy. 
• A broader awareness of other environmental and social disciplines.
  
  

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.

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 [email protected] 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.
  
  

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

Location(s):

London, GB Bristol, GB Reading, GB Cambridge, GB Glasgow, GB Cardiff, GB Leeds, GB Brighton, GB Sheffield, GB

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Various

Discipline: Consultancy

Job Ref: 8085

Recruiter Contact: Madeleine Knight