Senior Road Safety Consultant

Mott Macdonald

The Role

Overview

Lead road safety projects, provide technical guidance and mentor junior consultants.

Key Responsibilities

  • road safety
  • technical lead
  • bid support
  • staff development
  • external networking
  • subject matter

Tasks

-Grow your external network and opportunities to promote your expertise and Mott MacDonald capability at external events and conferences. -Engage proactively with the Mott MacDonald Highways Practice globally as a subject matter expert. -Support the WIN team with client engagement on road safety subject matter. -Act as a senior technical leader for our road safety discipline. -Develop and mentor junior staff in the team, building a robust technical group and giving people clear pathways for their development. -Provide technical and subject matter input to bids and opportunities to win new work. -Act as Project Technical Lead or Road Safety Discipline Lead on appropriate medium to large scale projects. -Manage road safety delivery on your projects. This may include the road safety component of a large project like Lower Thames Crossing, or project managing a road safety project such as an iRAP study or SPaTS3 task. -Build your internal Mott MacDonald network globally. -Support efforts to secure specialist road safety work (e.g. advisory work on the SPaTS3 Framework).

Requirements

  • honours degree
  • chartered
  • road safety
  • project management
  • team leadership
  • client facing

What You Bring

-Honours degree or greater in a relevant engineering, transport planning or safety related subject. -Demonstrable experience in road safety auditing and operational safety. -Experience managing project deliveries. -Experience overseeing and growing technical teams. -Professional accreditation, such as Chartered status. -Experience in client-facing roles, providing technical advice and guidance. -Demonstrable experience in the road safety sector.

Benefits

-Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too. -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. -Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues. -Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues. -Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid. -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. -A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options. -Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments. -Primary annual professional institution subscription. -Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary. -Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service. -A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family. -We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%. -Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury. -As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes. -Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing. -Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.

The Company

About Mott Macdonald

-Delivering complex projects that require both technical expertise and strategic vision. -Design of major infrastructure and transport systems. -Specializing in sustainable solutions to address challenges and capitalize on opportunities. -History built on innovation and forward-thinking engineering, consistently delivering impactful results.

Sector Specialisms

Engineering

Architecture

Bridges

Building services

Building structures

Dams and reservoirs

Geotechnics

Industrialized design and construction

Transportation

Energy

Water

Buildings

Infrastructure

Systems engineering and assurance

Container terminal sector

Marine

Utilities

Heavy Civil

Commercial

Residential

Government

Visa Sponsorship

-no sponsorship for skilled worker visa route. -applications welcomed from candidates eligible for alternative uk immigration routes.

Security Clearance

-offers conditional on obtaining the appropriate level of security clearance.