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About the Role

Our division specializes in providing top-tier Civil and Structural expertise across power generation and HV transmission projects. We are seeking a Technical Principal with experience as a National Grid Contractor Design Approval Engineer (CDAE) to join our Civil and Structural Team. This role offers a diverse portfolio of work and ample opportunities for career advancement.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing programme, budget, resources, and quality plans.
• Crafting compelling proposals.
• Leading initial design phases.
• Creating drawings for planning applications and tender packages.
• Developing comprehensive designs.
• Collaborating across multidisciplinary teams.
• Drafting detailed specifications.
• Evaluating existing structures for reuse.
• Ensuring compliance with National Grid standards.

Requirements

• In-depth knowledge of civil/structural engineering principles, including load-bearing capacity, material properties, and design codes (British Standards, Eurocodes, NGTS).
• Ensuring technical quality with clear plans for reviews, checks, and approvals.
• Upholding Mott MacDonald’s PRIDE values.
• Proven track record as a Designer under CDM 2015.
• Understanding of NGETSR137 & NGETSR188.
• Leading the project team in technical innovation and problem-solving.
• Ensuring top-notch technical quality within scope, cost, and time.
• Collaborating with the Project Manager to build and resource the design team.
• Overseeing technical management, coordinating interfaces, and resolving conflicts.
• Contributing to proposal writing with compelling content and accurate cost estimates.
• Leading Front End Engineering Design activities for structural components.
• Guiding detailed designs for civil and structural components.
• Excelling in coordinating with other disciplines (e.g., architects, building services engineers) to integrate structural designs seamlessly.
• Effectively resolving design conflicts within multidisciplinary teams.
• Proficiency in checking and reviewing detailed drawings for planning applications, FEED, and construction-level detailed design packages.
• Ensuring adherence to relevant standards.
• Managing and delivering designs in coordination with all relevant disciplines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for conveying technical information, collaborating with team members, and presenting findings.
• Demonstrating leadership qualities, especially when guiding junior engineers or collaborating with stakeholders.
• Proven experience in structural engineering.
• Energy Project Experience is advantageous.

Skills

• Civil/structural engineering principles
• Load-bearing capacity
• Material properties
• Design codes (British Standards, Eurocodes, NGTS)
• Quality Management
• CDM 2015
• National Grid Specs (NGETSR137 & NGETSR188)
• Project Technical Lead
• Technical innovation
• Problem-solving
• Quality Assurance
• Team Development
• Proposal writing
• Cost estimates
• Front End Engineering Design (FEED)
• Construction Design
• Multidisciplinary Collaboration
• Conflict Resolution
• Drawing Preparation
• Structural Integrity
• Clear Communication
• Leadership Mindset

Location

• Croydon
• New castle
• Altrincham
• Brighton
• Bristol
• Glasgow

Work Type

• Hybrid working

Experience Level

• Technical Principal
• Experienced professional

Education Level

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Civil or Structural Engineering, or Construction Management
• Chartered Engineer: CEng, MICE, or MIStructE

Benefits

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A 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.
• 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.
• Our 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.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
• A 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.
• Our 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.
• A 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.

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.
• We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve.
• Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do.
• With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.
• Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best.
• As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.
• Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

Equal Opportunity

• We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all.
• We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.