Principal Engineer - Dams and Rivers
Country: Spain
Position Location: Madrid, Spain
Contract Type: Permanent
Work Pattern: Full Time
Sector: Water
Discipline: Water
Job Ref: 3778
Recruiter Contact: Maria Marchidan
Mott MacDonald
We're a global engineering, management, and development consultancy. Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients' businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.
A fundamental part of this is respecting each person's differences and striving to meet their needs.
Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.
About the division
The Water Consultancy Division is the centre of excellence within Mott MacDonald for responding to water and wastewater challenges, providing support to colleagues across our global business, and offering fantastic opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work.
Climate change, aging assets, and population growth place increasing pressure on our water and wastewater assets. Our highly successful water consultancy business is servicing ever-increasing demands from water sector clients to help deliver ambitious capital programmes. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations and protecting our environment.
You will join a multidisciplinary team of engineers and technical specialists, preparing feasibility studies, calculations and outline/detailed civil engineering designs; overseeing the production of technical and commercial specifications, drawings and schedules; and carrying out site supervision duties. You will work in close partnership with clients and contractors, building strong relationships that will enhance the company's reputation and help secure further work.
We are seeking a Principal Civil Engineer specialising in dams and/or river engineering who will lead the design of large, multidisciplinary projects, supervise the work of more junior staff whilst providing technical and professional guidance to aid their development.
Typical duties would include:
Leading multidisciplinary projects and bids, harnessing our existing expertise in geotechnical engineering, dam foundation analysis, risk assessment and breach analysis, hydraulic structures, dam body analysis and collaborating with our specialists in hydrology, hydropower, water transfers, environment, planning and beyond.
Representing the company in technical and consortia meetings.
Driving knowledge-sharing and innovation through training and empowering others.
Mentoring and developing others, providing guidance to support their professional development.
Promoting a vibrant health and safety culture and practice.
Driving continuous improvement in project delivery.
This role will present you with a fantastic opportunity to further develop your technical and management skills through your project work, with great prospects for career progression as the business continues to grow.
Candidate Specification
Essential:
Proven track record of experience in dams, reservoirs, hydropower, hydraulic structures and/or river engineering.
Ability and enthusiasm to provide supervision to engineers, technicians and apprentices.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Experience of managing multidisciplinary teams and complex projects.
Desirable:
Chartered / Incorporated civil engineer with a relevant professional institution.
Experience of managing clients and other project stakeholders.
Appointed to the Supervising or All Reservoir Panel under the Reservoirs Act.
Experience in BIM and collaborative environments, e.g. Civil 3D, BIM360, including supervising the work of others.
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.
We offer some fantastic benefits including:
Life insurance
An annual professional institution subscription
Continuous development opportunities – because we want you to thrive
Agile/flexible working – because life isn't 9-5
Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies – for parents and caregivers
Annual bonus scheme
Flexible benefits that suit you, including ability to buy/sell annual leave entitlement, cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans
Wellbeing support including access to an independent Employer Assistance Scheme, wellbeing champions and access to learning and support resources
Access to our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities
The opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our social outcomes
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