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About the Role
Join Mott MacDonald, a global, employee-owned consultancy, and start your career by managing capital investment and forecasting financial impacts across a wide range of projects. You will be supported by a collaborative team, gaining hands-on experience throughout the full project lifecycle. This role requires professional curiosity and competence in using digital tools, data, and AI to support cost management, commercial advice, and decision-making, while adhering to RICS standards.
Responsibilities
- Work across all phases of project delivery, from early design to final settlement.
- Accurately manage capital expenditure and assess the financial impact of infrastructure and property assets on client business models.
- Gain exposure to contract reviews, commercial strategy, and construction settlements.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure financial integrity and project success.
- Support clients across sectors including Environment & Water, Defence, Nuclear, Oil & Gas, Property, and Transportation.
- Build trusted relationships with stakeholders, promoting transparency, accountability, and shared success.
Requirements
- Less than 12 months' relevant experience (excluding placements).
- Demonstrate genuine interest in Quantity Surveying and in joining Mott MacDonald.
- Highlight relevant experience or interests such as modules studied, previous work experience, or research about the company, values, and projects.
- Proactively takes initiative to complete tasks efficiently and independently.
- Communicates effectively and clearly with clients and colleagues.
- Delivers high quality written work with strong attention to detail and clarity.
- Demonstrates a structured and analytical approach to problem solving.
- Not eligible for Graduate visa route or other time-limited visas due to temporary nature and requirement for sponsorship.
- Eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.
Skills
- Professional curiosity
- Competence in appropriate use of digital tools, data and emerging artificial intelligence
- Cost management
- Commercial advice
- Informed decision-making
- Enhance core Quantity Surveying activities
- Cost planning
- Procurement
- Valuation
- Commercial reporting
- Sound professional judgement
- Acting in accordance with RICS standards, ethics and guidance
- Continuously develop knowledge of digital and AI-enabled practices
- Improve efficiency, accuracy and client outcomes
- Maintain independence, transparency or professional accountability
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Graduate
Education Level
- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree (obtained no earlier than 2025) or expected to achieve one in Quantity Surveying, or a similar subject that is accredited with RICS.
Benefits
- Supportive Mentorship
- Inclusive Culture
- Wellbeing Focus
- Societal Impact
- Biannual salary reviews (first three years, subject to probation completion)
- Pension contributions matching between 4.5% and 7%
- Life assurance equal up to 4 x basic salary (option to increase to 6x)
- Income protection scheme
- Flexible benefits (including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing)
- Annual bonus schemes
- Employee ownership model with shared success
- Personal and group performance bonuses
- Opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership
- Private medical insurance
- Health cash plan
- Access to Peppy (menopause expert support)
- Comprehensive wellbeing program (for employee and family)
- Ability to flex salary for health benefits (extendable to family)
- 33 days holiday each year (inclusive of public holidays, dependent on level, with ability to buy or sell leave)
- 10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers
- Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service
- Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts
- Enhanced family leave policies (26 weeks paid maternity/adoption, two weeks paid paternity/partner)
- Shared parental leave (up to 24 weeks at full pay)
- Up to five additional days leave for significant caring responsibilities (two paid)
- Support for military families
- Primary annual professional institution subscription
- Opportunities to enhance technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development
- Access to Advanced Employee Networks (LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, parents/carers)
- Support through dedicated internal Armed Forces Network
- Opportunities to make a difference within communities through social outcomes
- Access to Perks at Work (discounts on cinema tickets, travel, utilities and more)
About the Company
- Mott MacDonald is a global, employee-owned consultancy where your work can make a real difference.
- We offer experts, meaningful projects, and the support, learning opportunities, and experience needed to grow your career from day one.
- We are nurturing talent, celebrating achievements, and creating opportunities for growth.
- We empower you to contribute meaningfully, learn continuously, and help deliver projects that make a real difference to society.
- Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
- Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success.
- We are committed to promoting a strong culture of social responsibility and encourage our staff to play active roles in the local community.
- We believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments.
- We see the value AI can bring, but we take a people-first approach to hiring.
- We encourage the responsible use of AI while ensuring we get to know the real person behind the application.
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.