Senior Civil Engineer

Senior Civil Engineer - Water and Hydraulics

**Country**:Spain**Position Location**:Madrid, Spain**Contract Type**:Permanent**Work Pattern**:Full Time**Sector**:Water**Discipline**:Water**Job Ref**:1075**Recruiter Contact**:Tim Penlington**About the role**
- Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for its employees?- 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 engineers
- Strong collaboration and communication skills to be able to enter into technical discussions in a logical and coherent fashion 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

**About the business unit**
The Water Consultancy Division is the centre of excellence within Mott MacDonald for responding to water and wastewater delivery capability challenges, providing support to colleagues across our global business, and offering the best opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work. Our team continues to grow off the back of our sustained success in both the domestic and international water sector, for major utility companies and on high profile capital schemes.**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.- We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.- Our values**:P**rogress, **R**espect, **I**ntegrity, **D**rive, **E**xcellence.**Equality, diversity and inclusion**
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