

Mott Macdonald |

We’re a global engineering, management and development consultancy focused on guiding our clients through many of the planet’s most intricate challenges.
About us
Shape your future
We are an employee-owned engineering, development and management consultancy, with more than 20,000 people in over 50 countries. We plan, design, deliver and maintain the transport, energy, water, buildings and wider infrastructure that is integral to people’s daily lives. Our core strength is using our expertise to overcome complex challenges, for the benefit of our clients and the communities they serve.
Independent in thought and action, we advise what is genuinely right for our clients, our staff, and communities – not what is easy. We want to do a great job for everyone involved, while offering excellent opportunities for placement students and graduates.
Our engineers, environmentalists, and project managers take leading roles on some of the world’s highest profile projects, turning obstacles into elegant, sustainable solutions. By challenging norms and unlocking creativity, we deliver long-lasting economic, environmental and social outcomes for societies around the globe. Yet design and management are just the tip of a deep iceberg.
Whatever your career goals are, you can be confident that Mott MacDonald we will help you meet your ambitions and beyond.
Excel with our graduate career paths
Put your hard-earned degree to good use by following one our award-winning graduate career paths. You'll learn fast, train hard and do work you truly believe in – all with mentorship from industry experts.
Accelerating your future
Learn all the business and commercial skills you need as a graduate with us, through virtual workshops, face-to-face sessions and group challenges in our structured, three-year early careers development programme.
Succeed with a student placement
If you want your career to really make a difference in the world, a placement with Mott MacDonald is a great place to start.
Join us for a 8-10 weeks in the summer or a full year during your undergraduate studies and prepare to work with peers and professionals to gain crucial, hands-on sector experience. It's the perfect route into one of our graduate schemes too.
The Early Careers Professionals (ECPs)
Build confidence and connections in our progressive early careers network – a professional community offering seminars and mentoring in a supporting yet challenging environment.
What are our benefits?
- Agile working options
- 25 days' holiday
- Paid annual professional membership
- Biannual salary reviews for three years
- Pension contributions of up to 7% of your salary
- Flexible benefits scheme
- Sports and social activities
- Charity and community opportunities
- Employee led diversity networks
- Wellbeing initiatives and support



Awards

Shortlisted - The most popular graduate recruiter in construction, civil engineering and surveying award 2025, sponsored by targetjobs
targetjobs Awards 2025: Shortlisted

The UK 300 2021/22
The 300 most popular graduate employers in the UK, as voted by students

Shortlisted - The most popular graduate recruiter in construction, civil engineering and surveying award
As voted for by students. Announced at the targetjobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards 2022

Shortlisted - The most popular graduate recruiter in construction, civil engineering and surveying award 2023
As voted for by students. Announced at the targetjobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards 2023.

Shortlist - The most popular graduate recruiter in construction, civil engineering and surveying award 2024, sponsored by Knight Frank
The most popular graduate recruiter in construction, civil engineering and surveying award 2024, sp
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