Strategic Investment Planning Modeller

Location/s: Bristol, Reading, Brighton, Cambridge, London, Cardiff; UK

Recruiter contact: Emma Cantley

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 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

The Asset Management and Infrastructure Planning team is one of five subsectors within our Water Utilities Division, a 510-strong community of specialists across the UK. We work with UK and international water companies and infrastructure providers to deliver strategic, technical and systematic expertise across the following areas:

• Technical assurance of statutory and regulatory submissions (e.g., annual performance reporting, business cases, business plans, long-term strategies, operational plans)

Water resource investment planning

Wastewater and bioresources investment planning

Strategic asset management and business planning

Carbon and net-zero appraisal and strategic planning

Integrated systems management

Data analytics and decision-support tools

Contract appraisal (NEC, PPP)

We are growing our capability in integrated water systems modelling and are seeking a technical frontrunner to help shape and advance this area.

As a Strategic Investment Planning Modeller, you will undertake the creation, development, and assurance of integrated water system models. Your work will help clients understand and quantify future uncertainties across complex water and wastewater systems, enabling more resilient, efficient and sustainable long-term planning. Reporting into the Wastewater Strategy and Planning workstream, you will play a key role within our Asset Management Practice, both delivering high-quality modelling and promoting best practice across the sector.

This is an exciting opportunity to drive innovation in integrated system modelling, close working with our existing academic partner, influencing strategic planning approaches, and contribute to the advancement of water and wastewater investment planning.

Candidate specification

Essential

• Degree in water management, engineering, environmental science, or a related technical discipline
• Experience delivering and assuring modelling for one or more of the following:
• Water treatment
• Water distribution
• Wastewater network modelling
• Wastewater treatment
• Strong interest in integrated water management and a desire to promote the development of modelling theory and practice
• Keen interest in promoting the introduction of new technical processes, methods, or modelling approaches
  

Desirable

• Working towards chartership with a recognised professional institution, or IAM Certification
• Familiarity with UK water sector regulation
• Experience developing:
• Regional water resource plans
• Water company plans (business plans, WRMPs, drought plans, wastewater and drainage plans, sludge strategies, regional water resource plans)
• Project management, client-facing, and consultancy skills
• Experience of options appraisal and best-value planning
• Experience in auditing and assurance processes

Understanding and use of asset information for planning or modelling

Strong report-writing, communication, and presentation skills

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 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.

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.
  
  

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.

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Location(s):

London, GB Bristol, GB Reading, GB Brighton, GB Cambridge, GB Cardiff, GB

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Water

Discipline: Water

Job Ref: 13536

Recruiter Contact: Emma Cantley