This role is for a Technical Principal or Project Principal specializing in Electrical Engineering within the Buildings unit. The successful candidate will lead a technical team, serve as the primary client interface, and manage the performance of a support team, while also coordinating and mentoring junior staff.
Responsibilities
Take responsibility for winning work and enhancing existing client relationships
Identify opportunities, manage them, and deliver sound commercial and technical proposals ensuring compliance with Mott MacDonald’s Group Policies and Directives
Provide technical and project management/supervision for large Built Environment Sector projects
Actively engage with multi-disciplinary teams on all project stages from preliminary design to construction, commissioning and handover to the client
Monitor project performance and ensure corrective action is taken when required
Ensure compliance with our Business Management System
Promote safety, ethics, and professional excellence initiatives
Drive collaboration with other parts of the Unit, Region and Group in this sector
Requirements
Degree level qualification in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
Hold Chartered Status and membership of a relevant professional organisation
Previous commercial management experience with good commercial acumen and effective client facing skills; able to demonstrate successful commercial outcomes
Effective communicator who can influence at all levels
Strong knowledge of the design and planning of built environment projects, particularly in the Energy, Healthcare, Education, Transport, Industry, or Commercial sectors
Demonstrated project management ability to run large projects as the main point of client contact
Be external facing, providing technical and project management advice with business development responsibilities
Ability to lead, collaborate, delegate, and develop others
Understanding of all engineering disciplines
Excellent report writing, presentation and communication skills with a strong ‘can do’ attitude
Benefits
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
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
Annual bonus schemes
Employee ownership model means no external investors, creating a culture of shared success
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Employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through personal and group performance bonuses
As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution
Opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future
For senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one
Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues
Health cash plan to support you with everyday health costs and treatments
Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues
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
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 leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave
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
Primary annual professional institution subscription
Broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options
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
Important Details
Locations: Glasgow or Edinburgh, UK
Security Clearance
Offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.
UK Immigration
Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. 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.
About the Company
Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. They work across global industries, delivering work that is defining the future and making an important societal impact in the communities they serve. The Buildings Unit (BLD) has a major presence in Mott MacDonald's regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross-sector skills across five key Sectors; Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation and Water.
