Senior Consultant - Decarbonisation

Locations: Flexible, UK: London, Manchester, Cambridge, Brighton, Bristol, Leeds, Edinburgh 
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.

Job description:

Are you motivated to work alongside our talented decarbonisation team to support our water sector clients plan and deliver projects and programmes of work differently while meeting their decarbonisation ambitions?  Are you passionate about sustainability and eager to support the water sector, 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. senior consultant, you will initially focus working for our UK water sector clients and play a key role in helping them shape and embed decarbonisation programmes and help us grow our decarbonisation services in AMP8. You will also be responsible to be encouraged to collaborate with our resilience, sustainability and asset management teams to provide more systemic and innovative thinking to our clients to help them meet their current investment and delivery challenges in a more sustainable manner. 

As senior consultant, you will be able to lead the delivery of the technical and environmental aspects of your projects and you will have full support from more experienced members of our team. You will also be responsible to provide guidance to early career professionals in our teams. This will involve supporting our project principals develop and deliver for our clients decarbonisation strategies, low carbon design integration, undertake and/or oversee qualitative and quantitative whole life carbon assessments among other activities.  

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 UK Water sector there is significant pressure to decarbonise the delivery of nearly a £100bn of capital investment over the next 5 years, which is needed to resolve some of important regulatory drivers such as sewerage spills into the environment and improve the resilience of services. Additionally, water companies have set their own carbon reduction levels of ambition. We are in a unique position supporting most UK water companies define and deliver their decarbonisation efforts.  

We are looking for professionals with experience within the water sector to join our UK team, who understand our sector’s regulatory challenges and who have a strong understanding and/or demonstrable experience in the fields of decarbonisation and/or wider sustainability. Your experience can be in a consultant, asset owner/operator, contractor or other parts of the water sector value chain.

The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated individual with a passion for building a career in solving complex challenges in infrastructure. You will have the motivation 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 UK water sector clients.  

We want to hear from you if you meet some of our requirements, there is some flexibility in this role within our growing team. 

Candidate specification:

Essential skills and experience: 

• Degree qualified in an engineering, asset management, science, environmental or other relevant subject. 
• Industry experience with utilities, preferably in the water sector
• Industry experience in infrastructure projects/programmes of work relevant to asset management, planning, design or delivery
• Knowledge of efforts taken in infrastructure and/or water utilities, to reduce the whole life carbon impact of construction and the built environment. 
• Strong collaboration, interpersonal, communication, presentation and writing skills
• Numerical skills

Desired skills and experience: 

• Chartership or equivalent professional qualification (or working towards such qualification) with a relevant environmental, engineering or asset management professional institution. 
• Applied knowledge of PAS 2080 or other carbon management guidance/standards in organisations and/or individual projects and programmes of work. 
• Willingness to actively embrace on and off the job training in areas such as decarbonisation, climate resilience, systems thinking, nature-based solutions and/or circular economy. 
• A broader awareness of other environmental and social disciplines.
• Technical project management skills

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.

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:

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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