Hydraulic Engineer

**Location**
- Madrid, Spain

**Country**
- Spain

**Contract type**
- Permanent

**Work pattern**
- Variable Hours, Part Time, Full Time

**Market**
- Water

**Discipline**
- Water

**Job ref**
- 3918

**Recruiter contact**
- Maria Cervantes

**Mott MacDonald**

**Position location**:Madrid, Spain
**Recruiter contact**:Maria Cervantes

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**About the business unit**

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.

Discover your potential at Mott MacDonald. We aim to make a positive difference for present and future generations. We actively develop our people as individuals and professionals, working together to solve problems and taking pride in each other’s success. Our philosophy is to create a culture of continuous learning and growth to constantly support a meaningful career. You can make a difference with a company that cares about the human and environmental impact of what we do. Our ambition extends beyond avoiding adverse outcomes, into seizing opportunities to deliver transformational change. Join our team where collaboration is at the heart of the way we operate. We work as one Mott MacDonald to create the best outcomes for all.

**Overview of 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 in Madrid. You will be fluent in English and will help lead 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. You will be able to represent Mott MacDonald inside Client organisations as required.

In this role you will be responsible for:

- Supporting an Associate or Principal Hydraulic Engineer with the leading and delivery of a programme of projects
- Delivering Hydraulic Engineering services on a range of projects
- Producing and reviewing engineering calculations, specifications, drawings and reports
- Proactive management of design risk to deliver constructable design solutions
- Mentoring more junior colleagues. Providing technical guidance and advice on best practice in hydraulic design to others
- Engaging regularly with the Client and stakeholders to ensure the efficient delivery of projects, providing regular updates on progress and status of work within your own area of responsibility, as well as identifying and communicating issues that could impact programme, quality or cost
- 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

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Engineer with the following attributes:

- Significant technical experience of pressurised and open-channel hydraulics applied to the field of civil engineering, including surge analysis and design for water and wastewater treatment, transmission pipelines, and large-scale drainage systems through one or more stages of a project life cycle
- 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 and reporting on project budgets within area of responsibility, and experienced in the preparation of time and budget estimates for proposals
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary water pipeline and networks projects with other technical disciplines including environmental specialists, geotechnical, structural, electrical and mechanical e