Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer at Mott MacDonald

Location Genova, Italy Country Italy Contract type Permanent Work pattern Full Time Market Energy Discipline Mechanical Job ref 15952

This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

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 unit

The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across several sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle - from concept and design to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension. Together with our clients, we're helping to deliver the energy transition globally.

Overview of the role

Due to recent project wins and with further exciting opportunities in the pipeline, we are looking for a Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer to join our Energy Transition business in the Genoa office to help lead our growing thermal team. This is a senior technical leadership role with responsibility for shaping mechanical engineering delivery, providing technical authority on complex assignments, developing others and supporting strategic client engagement across thermal, energy transition and related infrastructure projects. The role will contribute to multidisciplinary project delivery for thermal and wider energy clients, working with colleagues in Italy, UK and internationally. You will work closely with our existing team members, clients and subcontractors to build on this success and be a key part of Mott MacDonald's Energy Transition team’s growth in Italy. The role will suit an experienced mechanical engineering leader who can combine deep technical judgement with commercial awareness, client confidence and the ability to guide multidisciplinary teams through feasibility, FEED, detailed design, technical advisory and owner's engineer commissions.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Act as senior technical lead and/or technical authority for mechanical engineering on complex, multi-disciplinary thermal, OE/TA and energy transition design projects
• Lead the Mechanical team and work with wider project teams to develop cost-effective, efficient and innovative solutions to complex problems
• Lead the development, review and assurance of mechanical engineering deliverables across feasibility, concept, FEED and detailed design stages
• Provide technical direction, independent judgement and proportionate challenge to project teams, ensuring solutions are safe, robust, commercially sound and aligned with client objectives
• Own technical quality for significant packages of work, including design reviews, checking strategies, surveillance, governance and compliance with relevant standards and legislation
• Support the development of proposals and bids for the Mechanical discipline, including contribution to multi-disciplinary proposals
• Build and maintain trusted client relationships, representing Mott MacDonald in senior technical discussions, workshops, design reviews and bid/client presentations
• Mentor and develop the mechanical team, supporting capability growth, knowledge transfer and succession planning within the mechanical discipline
• Contribute to work winning, scope definition, fee build-up, delivery strategy and risk management for new and existing opportunities
• Coordinate effectively with process, electrical, civil, structural, control \& Instrumentation, environmental and project management colleagues to deliver integrated, fit-for-purpose solutions
• Identify and manage technical, delivery, commercial and safety risks, maintaining ALARP principles and safety-by-design are embedded in decision making
• Promote continuous improvement, lessons