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Mott MacDonald
Assistant Maritime Engineer
Croydon
FULL TIME
August 29, 2024
Assistant Maritime Engineer
Country: United Kingdom
Position Location: Croydon, UK / Southampton, UK / Newcastle, UK / Li
Contract Type: Permanent
Work Pattern: Full Time
Sector: Transport
Discipline: Maritime
Job Ref: 4296
Recruiter Contact: Ainsley Anstess
Mott Mac Donald
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.
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: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.
About the role
It’s an exciting time for our Maritime team with major project success and workload growth. Join our experts and you’ll be involved in multi-disciplinary teams for the planning, science, engineering, and implementation of all types of maritime projects across the ports, coastal and offshore sectors. These specialist areas such as coastal zone management, flood and erosion resilience and nature-based solutions, sub-sea cables, floating solar and tidal power, metocean and hydrodynamic investigations, port masterplanning and multidisciplinary design. We’ve involved across the whole project lifecycle from business case to detailed design, D&B and construction supervision. We’ve active internationally in places like the US, Caribbean, Asia, Africa and Australia as well as the UK. We are pioneering the use of digital, carbon and positive social outcomes appraisal to provide clients with optimum solutions.
As a member of the Ports, Coastal and Offshore (PCO) team, you will have a major input and influence on our maritime projects by contributing to successful technical outcomes. Depending on your skills and interest you may also have project management responsibilities such as resourcing, programming and commercial input as well as overseeing risk and quality. You will support new business development initiatives to facilitate further growth of our PCO Account.
You will be supported to develop your career aspirations and you’ll also mentor other members of the PCO team to help progress their development.
Candidate Specification
We are looking for flexible and motivated team members with a genuine passion and a desire to make a difference in the maritime world, with the following characteristics:
- Methodical approach to problem solving
- Ability to use your initiative to undertake tasks efficiently and independently.
- Excellent verbal communication skills, which allow you to confidently liaise with clients and other team members, and enjoy building relationship networks both internally and externally
- Excellent written communication and attention to detail and be able to demonstrate accurate technical analysis and good report writing.
With a degree in a related technical discipline (eg civil engineering), you will be chartered, or near chartered, through a relevant professional institution and be able to demonstrate your experience in helping to successfully deliver significant maritime projects using innovative, collaborative and digitally driven techniques.
As we want the best people for the role, it's available as part time, job share or full time. This is because we recognise that sometimes people are not available full time. Due to the nature of our work, you will be willing to travel overseas for project assignments when required.
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UK Immigration
Mott Mac Donald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion
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.
Accessibility
We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.
Agile working
Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.
We offer some fantastic benefits including:
Health and wellbeing
- 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.
Financial wellbeing
- 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.
Lifestyle
- 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 and carers leave
- 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.
Learning and development
- 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.
Networks, communities, and social outcomes
- 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.
Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.
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