Senior Hydraulics Engineer

Location/s: Cambridge, Bristol, Leeds, Reading, London, Cardiff, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Croydon & Belfast; 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.

About the division 

The Water Consultancy Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to water and wastewater challenges, offering fantastic opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work.  The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations and protecting our environment.  Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies, through outline and detailed design, to construction support and site supervision.

Overview of the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Civil Engineer with a strong technical background and expertise in hydraulic analysis and design to join our growing team. This a fantastic professional opportunity for a driven individual to work on a uniquely wide range of water related projects in the UK and worldwide. You will undertake the design and analysis for a range of projects and topics, such as: transmission pipelines, surge analysis, hydraulic design of water and wastewater treatment works, stormwater storage tunnels. You’ll be able to understand water projects holistically and work in collaboration with other teams (mechanical, process, structural, environmental) for the successful delivery of multi-disciplinary projects.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Leading and delivering hydraulic analysis and design within your area of responsibility, across a range of potable and wastewater projects
• Producing and reviewing engineering calculations, specifications, drawings and reports
• Mentoring more junior colleagues, providing technical guidance and advice
• Engaging with the Client and stakeholders to ensure the efficient delivery of projects, as well as identifying and communicating issues that could impact programme, quality or cost
• Preparing time and budget estimates for proposals
• Working collaboratively across disciplines to ensure the efficient delivery of projects within your portfolio
• Engaging with best practice and taking responsibility for your own professional development

Candidate specification

Essential:

• Demonstrable technical experience of pressurised and open-channel hydraulics applied to the field of civil engineering, including surge analysis, transmission pipelines, and large-scale drainage systems through one or more stages of a project life cycle
• Experience of of surge analysis tools such as WANDA or Bentley Hammer
• Experienced in development of hydraulic calculations and hydraulic profiles for water and wastewater treatment works
• Proven ability to lead delivery of technical projects, including controlling budgets within area of responsibility
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary water pipeline and networks projects with other technical disciplines including environmental specialists, geotechnical, structural, electrical and mechanical engineers
• Strong collaboration and communication skills in both oral presentations and written reports, to colleagues, non-technical staff and clients
• Chartered membership of a relevant professional chartered institution, such as ICE or CIWEM

Desirable:

• Experience in transmission pipeline design, e.g. route and material selection, hydraulic design, steel pipe wall thickness calculations, thrust restraint solutions, etc
• Experience in CFD applied to the water industry
• Experience in supervision of physical scale modelling studies
• Good understanding of designers’ responsibilities under CDM
• Experience in clean water network modelling using software such as EPANET, WaterGEMS or Infoworks

Mott MacDonald offers a highly innovative and collaborative environment within which to further develop your career. We can offer career opportunities in technical, management or client-facing directions. You will have control of your own career path and great prospects progression as the business continues to grow.

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 [email removed] 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.