Principal Asset Management Advisor

Location/s: Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Cambridge, Reading, Southampton, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds, London & Croydon; UK
Recruiter contact: Nicola Coyle

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.

Overview of the role

Our Asset Management and Infrastructure Planning team is one of five sub-sectors within our Water Utilities Division, which employs around 350 people across the UK. We work in the water sector and with other infrastructure providers both in the UK and internationally in the following workstream areas:

• Technical assurance of statutory regulatory submissions such as annual performance reporting, business cases and business plans, long term strategic plans, operational performance and deliverables
• Water resource investment planning
• Wastewater and bioresources investment planning
• Strategic asset management and business planning
• Carbon and net zero appraisal and strategic planning
• Integrated systems management
• Data analytics and decision support tools
• Contract’s appraisal (NEC, PPP)

We are growing our asset management consultancy services for the UK Water Industry. Due to successfully winning positions on strategic frameworks we have a number of opportunities for experienced asset management professionals to join our team.

We are specifically seeking a Principal Asset Management Advisor in our Regulation workstream predominantly supporting our clients with economic regulation. You will support the regulator through the PR29 cycle to assess company submissions and provide technical expertise in various policy areas such as investment proposal assessment, reconciliation of incentives and company performance & delivery. You will also support our water company clients improve their asset management and investment planning capabilities, helping them to make and document better investment decisions. This includes preparing high quality regulatory submissions. 

Following the findings of the Independent Water Commission (IWC) review, the regulatory environment is expected to undergo significant and rapid change. This is an exciting opportunity for you to support our clients adapt and navigate through this evolving regulatory change.

You will be sharing your asset management expertise with peers and mentoring junior staff. Reporting to the Workstream Lead, you will be an important part of our investment planning team and the wider asset management practice community. 

This is an opportunity to be involved and to play a key role in our investment planning offering and to build on our position as a market leading provider of regulatory advisory services.

Candidate specification

Essential:

• Excellent knowledge of economic regulatory requirements and the wider landscape in the England & Wales water sector
• Excellent knowledge of Asset Management, ideally an Institute of Asset Management certificate /diploma
• Excellent knowledge of investment planning practices in the water sector
• Critical thinking and analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills; particularly of highly technical analysis to non-technical audiences, e.g report writing and presentations
• Able to work within a team and motivate others to deliver to high standards
• Regulatory planning cycle of business plan or business case development for companies and/or assessment of plans for regulators
• Development of asset management strategic or tactical plans within an infrastructure owning organisation
• Broad knowledge of and experience with a large range of technical disciplines; Water resource management plans, drainage and wastewater management plans, cost-benefit analysis, development of value frameworks or data management and visualisation

Desirable:

• Engineering or other technical background and qualifications
• Certificate or Diploma in Asset Management from the Institute of Asset Management
• Chartership with a relevant environmental or asset management professional institution
• Project management, client liaison and consulting
• Auditing and assurance
• Commercial awareness and project proposal preparation 

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.

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.

Agile working  

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

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.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

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.

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

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.

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.

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