Group Leader Water - North Division

About the role

Mott MacDonald is seeking a Water Group Lead in the North Division. This role involves leading project work to ensure high-quality deliverables, supporting business development, and managing staff with a focus on health, safety, and engagement.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrating behaviors that promote our Purpose and align with our PRIDE values including championing our Employee Value Proposition.
• Creating and maintaining a collaborative and respectful culture that encourages excellence, innovation, and learning.
• Winning work – working with Strategic Market and Account Leads to pursue opportunities, supporting Business Development as necessary.
• Doing work – leading and supporting project work to ensure high quality deliverables and technical excellence in all work executed for clients and supporting multi-disciplinary projects, focusing on compliance & innovation.
• Management and support of staff – focusing on health, safety and wellbeing, including creating a culture that promotes positive staff engagement.
• Advising on promotion, salary, and training of the staff in the Group
• Managing the Discipline Leads, advising on team structure, and actively mentoring, coaching, and planning for succession.
• Collaborating with other Group leads to maximize the effectiveness of existing resources
• Managing the utilization of resources (short-term and long-term), including planning and forecasting for critical projects and opportunity resourcing.
• Planning and leading the hiring of new staff – identifying gaps in the team, filling them, and planning for growth in alignment with the Regional strategic objectives.
• Participating in and actively contributing to Divisional operational matters and proactively cascade information regularly from Region/Unit updates.
• Visible leadership with internal and external representation.

Key Accountabilities / KPI’s

• Quality deliverables in both the WIN and DO phases, including proposals and projects, through providing appropriate QA/QC processes with the various disciplines within the Division Group you are responsible for.
• Managing utilization targets for Resource Groups including resourcing project work appropriately to understand resource requirements on projects.
• Organizational structure of the Division Group including headcount, planning for, and hiring for growth aligned with Unit and Regional strategic objectives.
• Recommendation of salary increases, bonuses, promotions, and appointments including preparing required supporting documents.
• Mandatory staff training in accordance with Mott MacDonald requirements.
• Health and Safety reporting in accordance with Mott MacDonald requirements.
• Oversite of Ethics and Compliance of the Division Group.
• Following BMS WIN and DO processes.
• Timesheet compliance.

Candidate specification

• 20+ years of experience leading teams in the Water/Wastewater industry.
• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or a relevant field; Master's degree preferred.
• PE License in NY, NJ, and MA.
• Proven ability to create and maintain a collaborative culture that fosters excellence, innovation, and learning.
• Successful track record in winning work and supporting Business Development.
• Strong project management skills, ensuring high-quality deliverables and technical excellence.
• Experience managing and supporting large-scale teams across multiple geographies, with a focus on health, safety, and wellbeing.
• Strong mentor and player/coach, supporting ongoing staff development.
• Experience leading hiring initiatives, identifying team gaps, and planning for growth.
• Demonstrate visible leadership and effective communication skills, both internally and externally.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit package that includes 401k, medical, dental and vision insurance, short-term/long-term disability, paid holidays, PTO, parental leave and company paid life insurance.
• Pay range: $220,000 - $270,000 in NYC, $190,000 - $230,000 in NJ, $190,000 - $230,000 in Boston.