Associate (Highways)

Following our continued growth and wider success in winning major projects across the UK and overseas, we are looking for an Associate (internally known as Principal Civil Engineer) to join our roads design team. This role can be based out of any one of our main offices across England such as Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds, Sheffield, Cambridge, London, Croydon, Brighton or Southampton. This is an opportunity to take a leading role in developing and growing our vibrant Roads Design team and contribute to achieving a high performing shared enterprise with our partners. You will be using our go digital platforms where you will be an integral part of the wider roads design teams located around the UK.
As a Principal Civil Engineer you will be part of a growing UK Roads team and the role will combine leadership (there will be line management responsibilities for the diverse team ranging from Apprentices to Senior Engineers) with technical responsibility. You will guide the team and our clients through approval processes including the discharge of associated conditions. Using your excellent communication skills, you will support and develop staff members through mentoring and guiding team members in their technical and continued professional development. You’ll promote our health, safety and well-being policies and ensure these are adhered to within the team as well as ensuring design outputs meet our quality obligations and requirements set out in our Business Management System (BMS). Additionally, you will present technical advice to both clients and various stakeholders.
Your responsibilities will also include:

- Overseeing a portfolio of design packages involving multi-disciplinary design team
- Controlling project budgets and managing resources
- Assisting Project Directors on major schemes and with business development initiatives.
- As a senior engineering professional, you have experience in highways design as well as practical knowledge of highways design standards (Design Manual for Roads and Bridges, DMRB) and specifications (Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works, MCHW). Using your communication and collaboration skills, you’ve been involved in leading design teams as well as mentoring team members and you can clearly interpret client requirements to produce engineering proposals. Additionally, you will have a full appreciation of health and safety legislation and how it applies to the engineering process. You will be willing to travel to client site or other offices when required.
You will also be able to demonstrate the following:

- Chartered with a professional institution such as ICE or CIHT (or equivalent)
- Experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams
- Demonstrable organisational skills and approach to work in order to manage inputs from various disciplines and professionals
- Excellent time management skills with the ability to prioritise your workload effectively
- Ability to develop strong professional relationships with clients and partners
- Experience of working in a technical and commercial environment.
- Although not essential, it would beneficial if you are degree qualified in Civil Engineering (or a related discipline) and are also a chartered member of a professional institute. Ideally you have demonstrable experience in leading the design process in a design & build environment on major roads projects including directly interfacing with the contractor at all stages of the process. If you have any experience in NEC contracts or quality requirements as well as experience preparing and procuring contracts this would be advantageous as would the ability to interpret client requirements and produce engineering proposals.

Job Profile
- Mott MacDonald is UK based but one of the largest employee-owned companies in the world. With over 16,000 of the best people working on a diverse range of challenges, we search out the connection’s others fail to make, to unlock creativity and deliver better outcomes to enable our clients to deliver sustainable infrastructure.
Our Highways Division delivers services across the entire project lifecycle. Whether we are planning, designing and implementing new roads, or maintaining, managing, improving and operating existing highway networks, we deliver innovation, cost certainty and added value through collaborative working with clients and a culture of continuous improvement.
Our roads design service is primarily based in the UK, delivering projects to clients such as National Highways, Local Government and Design and Build Contractors. Our current project portfolio is very diverse and includes a place on the prestigious National Highways TA2 and Regional Delivery Partnership frameworks amongst others. We specialise in design and construction, progressing schemes from option identification and appraisal through preliminary and detail design to supervision of works on site. We also provide technical advice on