Technical Director - Mechanical Engineering

Technical Director - Mechanical Engineering

Mott MacDonald are 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.

The need to develop services that can meet tomorrow's built environment needs means that Mott MacDonald has never been more involved in shaping global net zero carbon policy and facility provision. Your role will be to support the Buildings Health division sector technical team in supporting the expansion of healthcare work in the UK and Europe.

We want to recruit a candidate who will provide healthcare sector business development and subsequent technical delivery leadership as part of the teams delivering built environment healthcare projects. The role will include technically led bid activity and client relationship building - primarily through thought leadership on matters such as site decarbonisation and the adaption and/or replacement of existing MEP engineering systems, inclusion of MMC/DfMA design solutions, structural adaption, etc. The candidate will be self motivated and capable of delivering high quality technical advisory services with the minimum of supervision to time and budget. As part of a wider practice network the role will support the Healthcare sector team who have developed a strong reputation for work winning, successful project delivery and technical excellence.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate and take positive steps to create an inclusive culture.

What you will do

• Have responsibility for all aspects of assigned project work, with a focus on healthcare sector built environment projects.
• Support national core teams of project delivery staff on technical aspects of healthcare projects - developing/mentoring the teams to successfully deliver healthcare sector projects.
• Work and liaise with associated engineering disciplines as part of bidding and delivering technical support.
• Client facing on matters of a technical nature.
• Support senior managers running the commercial and contractual side of built environment projects.

Key elements of the role

• Managing the delivery of assigned built environment technical advisory projects.
• Working and liaising with associated engineering disciplines as part of delivering projects - primarily focused on the health sector.
• Management of internal and external stakeholders.
• Responsible for managing external stakeholders, ensuring client satisfaction and pursuing and promoting opportunities with potential and established clients.
• Be familiar with using relevant industry software (e.g. IES, Revit, ADB Codebook, DRofus, etc).
• Developing, maintaining and monitoring programmes for scheduling and reporting on deliverables across specific projects.
• Maximising profitability of projects, monitoring against budget, reacting and anticipating potential problems and communicating in line with client expectations.
• Demonstrating technical expertise, providing in depth knowledge whilst proactively coaching and developing less experienced team members.

Qualifications and attributes

• Have experience of leading on building commissions.
• Have experience of mentoring and leading graduate engineers.
• Be enthusiastic and ambitious.
• Possess excellent communication skills, including report writing and presentation.
• Have the ability to lead elements of one large project or a portfolio of smaller projects.
• Have experience of managing client relationships and expectations with accountability for key customer relationships and delivery of outputs.
• Working as a specialist providing high level advice to others.
• Track record of achievement and innovation, delivering complex projects or new services.
• Managing and supervising the work of other professionally qualified staff.
• Well developed professional network externally and desire to build internal networks within the organisation.

Flexible working

At Mott MacDonald, we support our staff to create work life balance which works for them and welcome candidates looking for career flexibility. We are open to discussing flexible working at interview stage.