UK Graduate Control and Instrumentation Engineering Career Path

Mott MacDonald is seeking passionate, curious, and driven graduates to join their Energy team as Graduate Control and Instrumentation Engineers. This role offers a chance to grow, make a difference, and be part of a larger organisation.

Control and Instrumentation engineering is crucial for the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of complex energy assets. As a graduate, you will apply your skills in two key areas:

Energy Generation (ETR)

Support projects involving renewable energy, hydropower, and thermal transition. You will help design control, monitoring, automation, and protection systems for generating assets.

Nuclear: Defence and Civil (NDC)

Contribute to nuclear generation, decommissioning, defence, and industrial process projects. You will focus on instrumentation, control systems, and safety documentation for monitoring plant conditions, managing risk, and supporting operations.

Key Responsibilities

As a Graduate Control and Instrumentation Engineer, you will play a key role in delivering technical excellence and innovation by:

• Designing and developing control system architectures, including programmable controllers and Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs).
• Contributing to Control System Philosophy documents and functional specifications.
• Producing engineering calculations, cause and effect matrices, and safety documentation.
• Creating detailed diagrams: instrument location, hook-up, termination, loop, and cable routing.
• Developing instrument data sheets, I/O schedules, and alarm schedules.

Application Process

• Online strengths-based assessment
• Application form

CVs and cover letters are not required. Candidates will be assessed through a single-stage strengths-based interview.

Applications will be assessed throughout October and November, with successful candidates invited to an interview/assessment centre in December.

Candidate Specification

To be eligible for this opportunity, you will have less than 12 months’ relevant experience (excluding placements) and a minimum bachelor's degree (obtained no earlier than 2025) or be expected to achieve one in:

• Electrical Engineering
• Control and Instrumentation Engineering

Some opportunities may require a master’s degree and eligibility for security clearance (normally requiring UK British nationality or five years' residency in the UK).

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. is not currently offering sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. They also cannot accept applications from candidates on the Graduate visa route or other time-limited visas due to their temporary nature and future sponsorship requirements.

Applications are welcome from candidates eligible for alternative UK immigration routes that do not require sponsorship.

Development and Benefits

• Development: A three-year early careers soft skills development programme, 'Accelerating your Future', mentoring, and formal training opportunities.
• Financial Wellbeing: Biannual salary reviews for the first three years (subject to probation), pension contributions matched between 4.5% and 7%, life assurance, income protection, flexible benefits, and annual bonus schemes.
• Health and Wellbeing: Private medical insurance, health cash plan, access to menopause experts via Peppy, and comprehensive wellbeing support.
• Lifestyle: 33 days holiday (inclusive of public holidays, increasing to 35 after 5 years' service), with options to buy or sell leave, and discounts from high-street retailers.
• Family and Carers Leave: Enhanced policies including paid maternity, adoption, paternity/partner leave, and additional leave for caring responsibilities.
• Employee Ownership: A culture of shared success where employees have a stake and a voice in the business, with opportunities for personal and group performance bonuses and a pathway towards ownership for senior roles.
• Agile Working: A hybrid working policy promoting well-being and flexibility.
• Networks and Communities: Access to various employee networks supporting LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities. Support for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers, and opportunities to make a difference in the community.