Materials Engineer

You will be working on technical and unique projects across a range of sectors. You will be involved in addressing technical queries, preparing durability assessments for new structures including durability modelling, writing specifications, conducting on-site inspections and investigations of structures, reviewing available data, developing remedial and maintenance options and providing advice on sustainable solutions, asset management and technical problem solving. You will need the capability and willingness to take responsibility for interacting directly with clients and ensuring that their needs are met by efficiently producing high quality project deliverables. You’ll manage your own work on a variety of projects of various sizes across different project stages and ensure work is carried out to a high standard and following necessary quality, environmental and safety requirements. You will share your skills and knowledge across the team as well as develop knowledge from disciplines teams when necessary. Additionally, you will develop and strengthen your skills to be involved in more specialist areas such as developing state-of-the-art models to simulate the behaviour of different material properties exposed to selected environments.

Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Preparing durability assessments which involves identifying potential deterioration mechanisms of structural elements and other construction products and developing solutions to ensure the structure will achieve its design life
• Providing general advice, detailed technical input or developing innovative and sustainable solutions for both internal and external clients
• Ensuring the deliverables meet project requirements, including handling of internal/ external client expectations and relationships
• Contributing to a variety of global projects, both small and large, and project stages, providing technical input and quality deliverables to British, European or International Standards
• Planning and undertaking inspections and condition surveys, and overseeing materials testing on a variety of structures such as tunnels, buildings, walls, bridges
• Ensuring effective communication with colleagues on the project team, with clients and other stakeholders, both verbally and in writing

Candidate Specification

As a professional working within the construction industry, you have a foundation in materials technology within civil engineering disciplines and you have an interest in growing and strengthening your technical and management skills and experience. You have experience writing technical reports to a high standard and are used to presenting project material to both colleagues and clients. You are willing to take on new problems are able to adapt to new problem-solving opportunities. You have good time management skills and are willing to work on varied and multiple commissions with a range of project stakeholders and represent Mott MacDonald to colleagues or clients. Additionally, you appreciate contractual commercial requirements and are able to react to these with managing your workload.

You will also be able to demonstrate the following:

• Master’s degree qualified (or equivalent) in an Engineering or Science discipline, preferably specialising in Materials
• Chartered with a relevant professional institution or working towards chartership
• Knowledge of civil engineering assets
• An interest in gaining experience of working with different materials
• Data processing skills (preferably using VBA or other coding languages) and Finite Element Modelling software expertise
• Due to the nature of our industry, you will be willing to travel nationally or internationally for projects as well as be flexible to work non-standard hours when necessary.

Job Profile

Benefits
We can offer:

• Pension matched up to 7%
• Competitive annual leave and the option to purchase additional annual leave
• An annual professional institution subscription
• Life insurance
• Enhanced parental leave
• Annual company performance bonus scheme – Subject to company performance
• Flexible benefits scheme to suit you, including cycle to work & Interest free season ticket loans etc.

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Job Ref

53266BR

Recruiter Contact

Matthew Rayburn

Country

United Kingdom

Region/State

England - Midlands, England - Outer London

Discipline

Civil, Structural

Sector

Transport

Website Region

Europe and Central Asia

Website Sector

Transportation