Asset Management Advisor

Mott MacDonald; Brighton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy is seeking motivated professionals for asset management roles in the water sector. Candidates should have 5+ years of asset management experience, preferably within water. You will help clients navigate challenges related to climate change and efficiency while delivering impactful projects. The position offers opportunities in technical delivery, business development, and multi-disciplinary teamwork. A degree in a relevant field and progress towards chartership are essential for this role.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Flexible holiday entitlement

Enhanced family leave policies

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of asset management experience preferably in the water sector.
• Chartership with a relevant environmental or asset management institution.
• Willingness to undertake assignments throughout the UK and short international visits.

Responsibilities

• Assist the technical delivery of asset management advisory projects.
• Contribute to the development of project outputs.
• Support business development activities and client engagement.

Skills

Asset planning

Risk assessment

Investment appraisal

Critical thinking

Strong interpersonal skills

Education

Degree in environmental or relevant subject

Certificate or Diploma in Asset Management

Job description

Overview

Brighton, United Kingdom / Bristol, United Kingdom / Cambridge, United Kingdom / Cardiff, United Kingdom / Leeds, United Kingdom / London, United Kingdom / Manchester, United Kingdom / Reading, United Kingdom

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the business division

The Water Utilities Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to the UK and Ireland\'s water and wastewater challenges. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations, preventing urban flooding, and improving the health of our rivers and coastal environments. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies to outline and detailed design. Together, we deliver best-in-class solutions to our clients while offering diverse and technically stimulating opportunities to our people.

Overview of the role

Are you motivated to support the water sector become more efficient and effective in delivering their services while protecting the environment? Are you passionate about sustainability and eager to support the water sector to become Net Zero and resilient to climate change? Do you enjoy working within multidisciplinary teams and learning on the job? Are you seeking the opportunity to deliver projects that make a difference? Then we want to hear from you!

The Asset Management and Infrastructure Planning team is one of five sub-sectors within our Water Consultancy Division, which employs around 600 people across the UK. We work in the water sector and with other infrastructure providers both in the UK and internationally in the following areas:

• Wastewater and bioresources investment planning
• Strategic asset management and business planning
• Technical assurance of operational performance and business cases
• Carbon and net zero appraisal and strategic planning
• Integrated systems management
• Data analytics and decision support tools

Our clients are facing significant challenges from climate change, population growth and ageing assets. Their customers expect increasing service levels and less impact on the environment at lower cost. Asset management is key to overcoming these challenges and therefore we are growing our team in this area.

We are looking for motivated professionals, with at least 5 years of asset management experience preferably in the water sector, to join our team based in the UK. The ideal candidate will have a desire for a long-term career in asset management, becoming a Member of the Institute of Asset Management and managing their own projects.

Key responsibilities and duties

• Assist the technical delivery of asset management advisory projects, including frequent interaction with clients and working from within client environments
• Contribute to the development of project outputs, including investment business cases and reports
• Support business development activities, including client engagement, preparing and managing project proposals
• Facilitate asset management capability assessments and identifying areas for improvement
• Support project and budget management, including team coordination and ensuring compliance with PM procedures
• Undertake identified training to support technical excellence
• Perform data analysis to support project delivery

You will have experience in the following:

• Asset planning or asset strategy
• Risk assessment and management
• Investment appraisal or cost benefit analysis
• Resilience assessment and planning
• Performance monitoring/reporting
• Some experience/knowledge of ISO 55000 or another ISO standard
• Degree qualified in an environmental or other relevant subject
• Chartership recently achieved through a relevant organisation (ICE, CIWEM or similar), or working at an equivalent level with demonstrable progress towards Chartership
• Industry experience in asset management, ideally in a water company or consultancy
• Critical thinking and analytical skills
• Strong interpersonal, communication and writing skills. This would include the ability to review complex documents, summarise and present the key issues in a clear and concise way.
• Project management, client liaison and consulting skills
• Willingness to undertake assignments throughout the UK, as well as short international visits
• Certificate or Diploma in Asset Management from the Institute of Asset Management
• Assurance/audit experience including experience of ISO auditing
• Commercial awareness and project proposal preparation
• Organisational change management
• Chartership with a relevant environmental or asset management professional institution
• Industry experience and/or willingness to actively embrace on and off the job training in additional areas such as decarbonisation, climate resilience, systems thinking, nature-based solutions and/or circular economy
• A broader awareness of other environmental and social disciplines

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald 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 [e-mail] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We are happy to talk openly about flexible working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

Benefits

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.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.