Senior Civil Engineer

**Location**
- Madrid, Spain

**Country**
- Spain

**Contract type**
- Permanent

**Work pattern**
- Full Time

**Market**
- Water

**Discipline**
- Water

**Job ref**
- 7270

**Recruiter contact**
- Maria Cervantes

**Mott MacDonald**

Position location: Madrid
Recruiter contact: María Cervantes

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**:P**rogress, **R**espect, **I**ntegrity, **D**rive, **E**xcellence.

**About the business unit**

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?

Mott MacDonald is a market leader in the UK water sector, being a key supplier to major water companies and delivering a wide variety of engineering and advisory projects in support to the challenges faced by the sector. Working for a company like ours, with technical excellence at our core, offers you access to industry recognised experts in a variety of disciplines and the support and opportunities you are after for your career progression. Our business is wholly employee
- owned. Being independent means that we can choose our own direction and focus on what we believe is important for our clients, our people and those communities which we work and live in. We are a family of people excited to solve complex challenges that have a positive impact on the world, and we are always looking for like-minded people to join our team.

Our Water Utility Division has ambitious growth plans in line with AMP8 (2025-2030) investment needs and we are proud of our strong reputation in the industry which is allowing us to expand our business. We cover all phases of the project lifecycle from feasibility studies through detailed design, construction support, and commissioning to handover. We also provide specialist technical support to colleagues across our global business, offering fantastic opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically complex work.

**Overview of role**

We are looking for a driven Senior Civil Engineer to play a pivotal role within our water engineering team.

As a Senior Civil Engineer, you will work with and/or coordinate a multidisciplinary team of technical specialists, delivering projects in close partnership with clients and contractors, building strong relationships that will enhance the company’s reputation and help secure further work. In this role, you will lead and/or contribute to the design of innovative and sustainable solutions to support the delivery of our UK clients’ water and wastewater programmes, vital to meet the ever-growing societal demands of development, population growth and climate change.

You will be expected to coordinate project teams throughout the project lifecycle from design definition through to implementation, including the interface management, technical quality assurance, as well as supporting on the client interface. You will sometimes work closely with contractors, often on site, reacting to queries and changes. You will represent the company in meetings and supervise the work of more junior staff, providing technical and commercial guidance to support their development.

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

We are seeking a Senior Civil Engineer with strong international water engineering experience, able to demonstrate the following attributes:

- Civil Engineering degree or other relevant degree.
- Full professional membership of a relevant chartered body.
- Water and/or wastewater engineering design experience.
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary water engineering projects with technical disciplines including environmental specialists, geotechnical, civil, structural, electrical and mechanical engineers
- Proven design management capability, having managed multiple and/or complex projects in a multidisciplinary environment using a proactive approach coupled with an ability to adapt to changing scenarios
- Good understanding of the importance of prioritising health, safety, and environmental issues.
- 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
- Proficient in English
- Proactive approach, with an ability to adap