UK Graduate Water Building Services Engineering Career Path: Public Health

Mott MacDonald is a global, employee-owned consultancy looking for motivated graduates to join their purpose-driven teams.

The Opportunity

As a Graduate Public Health Engineer, you will contribute to the design and delivery of water and drainage systems for buildings, ensuring they operate safely, efficiently, and sustainably. You will work alongside experienced engineers and multidisciplinary teams on a variety of projects, gaining exposure to public health engineering principles.

What You'll Do

• Support the design of public health engineering systems for building and infrastructure projects.
• Assist with the design and specification of domestic water services, hot and cold-water systems, sanitary drainage, rainwater harvesting, greywater reuse, foul and surface water drainage systems.
• Contribute to water conservation and sustainability strategies.
• Support calculations, technical reports, drawings, specifications, and design documentation.
• Utilise digital design tools and BIM technologies.
• Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, structural, civil, sustainability, and digital engineering specialists.
• Participate in project meetings, site visits, surveys, and inspections.
• Identify innovative solutions to improve system performance, resilience, and environmental outcomes.
• Ensure designs comply with relevant regulations, industry standards, and best practice guidance.

Why This Role Matters

Your work will help create buildings and infrastructure that protect public health, improve occupant wellbeing, reduce water consumption, increase resilience, support sustainability goals, and deliver long-term value.

Candidate Specification

To be eligible for this opportunity, you will have:

• Less than 12 months' relevant experience (excluding placements).
• A bachelor's degree (obtained no earlier than 2025) or be expected to achieve one in:
  • Building Services Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Architectural Engineering
  • Civil Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Sustainable Building Design
  • Water Engineering
  • Or a related discipline.
• Eligibility to achieve security clearance (normally requires UK British nationality or 5+ years residency in the UK).

We are looking for graduates with the following strengths:

• Proactive initiative and ability to complete tasks independently.
• Effective and clear communication skills.
• High-quality written work with strong attention to detail.
• Structured and analytical approach to problem-solving.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald is not offering sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. Applications from candidates on the Graduate visa route or other time-limited visas are not accepted due to their temporary nature and future sponsorship requirements.

About Your Development

• Three-year early careers soft skills development programme ('Accelerating your Future').
• Assigned mentor for professional training needs.
• Opportunities to enhance technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development.
• Primary annual professional institution subscription.

Benefits

• Financial Wellbeing: Biannual salary reviews (first three years, subject to probation), pension contributions matching, life assurance, income protection, flexible benefits, and annual bonus schemes.
• Health and Wellbeing: Private medical insurance, health cash plan, access to menopause expert support via Peppy, comprehensive wellbeing program, and ability to flex salary for health benefits.
• Lifestyle: 33 days holiday (inclusive of public holidays, increasing after 5 years' service), option to buy/sell leave, additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists, employee saving schemes, and discounts.
• Enhanced Family and Carers Leave: Enhanced maternity, adoption, paternity/partner, and shared parental leave policies, plus additional paid leave for significant caring responsibilities.
• Employee Ownership: Shared success through personal and group performance bonuses, with a pathway towards ownership for senior roles.
• Agile Working: Hybrid working policy.

Application Process

• Online strengths-based assessment.
• Application form (CVs and cover letters are not required).
• Single-stage strengths-based interview.

Note: Apply as early as possible as positions close once filled. Only one application per candidate is accepted.