UK Graduate Electrical Engineering Career Path: Water

Mott MacDonald is offering a permanent Graduate Electrical Engineering Career Path opportunity within their Water Utility Division.

What You'll Be Doing

You will join a multidisciplinary team delivering critical infrastructure for clean water, wastewater treatment, flood protection, and environmental resilience. You will contribute to projects that make a real difference locally and globally, developing your technical and project management skills.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing with purpose: Prepare and review electrical and ICA (EICA) designs for water and wastewater infrastructure.
• Creating technical outputs: Develop drawings and documentation such as plant general arrangements, power single line diagrams, cable block diagrams, instrumentation loop diagrams, P&IDs, control system architecture, and I/O schedules.
• Collaborating across disciplines: Work closely with clients, contractors, and internal teams to deliver integrated, sustainable solutions.
• Driving innovation: Use digital tools and data-driven approaches to enhance design quality and efficiency.
• Growing with support: Gain exposure to project and commercial management, supported by mentoring, training, and the Early Careers Professionals Network.

Candidate Specification

We are looking for curious, motivated graduates with less than 12 months' relevant experience (excluding placements) and a bachelor's degree (obtained no earlier than 2025) or expected to achieve one in:

• Electrical Engineering
• Electrical & Electronic Engineering
• Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
• Control Engineering
• Any other electrical engineering related degree

For some opportunities, a master’s degree may be essential.

You should demonstrate a genuine interest in the opportunity and in joining Mott MacDonald, highlighting relevant experience or interests such as modules studied, previous work experience, or research about the company.

We are looking for graduates with the following strengths:

• Proactively takes initiative to complete tasks efficiently and independently.
• Communicates effectively and clearly with clients and colleagues.
• Delivers high quality written work with strong attention to detail and clarity.
• Demonstrates a structured and analytical approach to problem solving.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald is not offering sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. They cannot accept applications from candidates who would be working under the Graduate visa route or other time-limited visas. Applications are welcome from candidates eligible for alternative UK immigration routes that do not require sponsorship.

About Your Development

You will receive training from day one, be assigned a mentor, and join a three-year early careers soft skills development programme, 'Accelerating your Future'.

Benefits

• Financial wellbeing: Biannual salary reviews (first three years, subject to probation), pension contributions matching between 4.5% and 7%, life assurance, income protection, flexible benefits, and annual bonus schemes.
• Employee Ownership: Shared success through bonuses, a stake and voice in the business.
• Health and wellbeing: Private medical insurance, health cash plan, access to Peppy for menopause support, comprehensive wellbeing program, and flexible salary options for health benefits.
• Lifestyle: 33 days holiday (inclusive of public holidays, increasing to 35 after 5 years), ability to buy or sell leave, additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists, and employee saving schemes/discounts.
• Enhanced family and carers leave: Enhanced maternity, adoption, paternity/partner, and shared parental leave policies, plus additional paid leave for significant caring responsibilities.
• Learning and development: Primary annual professional institution subscription, and opportunities to enhance technical and soft skills.
• Networks, communities, and social outcomes: Access to Advanced Employee Networks (LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, parents/carers), support for Armed Forces Covenant signatories, and opportunities to make a difference in communities.

Agile Working

A hybrid working policy is offered, balancing client, team, and personal commitments.

Application Process

• Online strengths-based assessment
• Application form

CVs and cover letters are not required. Applications will be assessed through a single-stage strengths-based interview. Applications should be made as early as possible as positions will close once filled. Only one application per candidate will be accepted.