Senior Heritage Archivist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 15 Mai 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £65000-75000 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 14 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, EC4M 7RB |
| Cwmni: | Mott MacDonald |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 8798-43387194 |
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Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.
We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.
Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.
Location/s: Any of our UK officesRecruiter contact: Nikki George
Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.
We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.
Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.
About the business unit
Mott MacDonald’s support services are the driving force behind our organisation enabling us to run efficiently and effectively. The team works collaboratively to offer specialist advice, best practice and technology to all areas of our business specifically designed for our global reach.
We are seeking a senior archivist to lead establishing the professional curation of our heritage, bringing processes to maturity and then operating and developing the heritage function as an integral component of the business. We have been professionally informed that our heritage material is world class.
Our portfolio includes some of the most important social and engineering achievements, for example much of the London Underground, Egypt’s Aswan Dam, the electrification of much of Asia and the Arabian Gulf, the Channel Tunnel, Hong Kong Airport, Wembley Stadium and the Boston Central Artery. Within the last few years we have completed major roles on the Elizabeth Line, the Sydney Metro and programmes that have transformed girls’ education in Uganda and antimicrobial resistance across a dozen countries in Africa and Asia. Every day we are creating tomorrow’s heritage in around 140 countries around the world.
We would like to be better able to use our heritage to:
- Provide immutable evidence of our experience delivering truly world-class assets and projects with our clients.
- Support the codification of our culture as a collection of engineering and technical professionals that deliver amazing results.
- Present our heritage to we can use it during onboarding of new staff to help develop an emotional connection between themselves and who we are and what we represent.
- Showcase our heritage amongst a broader base of stakeholders
- with pride and authenticity. Embedding mindsets that Mott MacDonald is a vanguard of engineering excellence and a place people come to for brilliant technical opportunities.
Having treated heritage materials informally until recently we have now taken the first steps towards professional development and curation of our extensive heritage collection, and are committed to its use to inspire our clients, colleagues and the wider industry, and to discover the stories within it. Examples of our recent work in this area are a podcast exploring the Dinorwig pumped storage scheme in Wales (Europe’s largest construction project of its time) Designing Dinorwig: Inside Electric Mountain
- Engineering Matters, and another featuring our pioneering work bringing electricity to Sydney, and its parallels to today’s energy transition Electrifying Sydney: Transformational Energy Systems
- Engineering Matters.
We have the support of our Executive Chair, James Harris, as senior sponsor for this key part of what makes us who we are, and have committed to build a heritage capability within our Excellence function, with the role reporting to our Chief Technical Officer, with close collaboration with our Group Head of Strategy. The role will be linked closely with our marketing and internal engagement capabilities, as well as supporting the operational business as it looks to heritage to inform and inspire current work.
This role is an opportunity to shape the safeguarding, curation and exploitation of the firm’s heritage assets, including paper, digital and other materials relating to projects, physical artefacts, corporate documents, and the opportunity to gain oral heritage from current and retired employees. All against a backdrop of the long-lived physical realities of our built projects and their impacts on economies and on peoples’ lives. As a firm at the cutting edge of engineering we work digitally day to day, and part of the role will involve setting a path for digital heritage, and the heritage we have yet to create.
To some degree the responsibilities and duties of the senior heritage archivist will evolve as the role develops, but are expected to include:
- Owning and being accountable for the Group’s heritage assets, worldwide but with an initial focus on records held in the UK.
- Promote the value of our heritage to internal stakeholders, and coordinate any necessary rescue efforts · Lead the development and execution of a plan for the exploitation of our heritage.
- Facilitate and to an extent undertake research and interpretation.
- Work with teams in marketing, internal engagement and excellence to bring heritage to life, for business benefit. Build partnerships with other archives, including clients and peer organisations.
- Bring the current draft heritage policy to a state of completion, agreement and active use.
- Build over time a mature heritage curation capability for both physical and digital heritage.
- Work with the Group Head of Knowledge and our AI teams to create processes to capture future heritage as it is being created, and to mine existing digital assets for heritage content.
- Promote best practice in the curation and exploitation of our heritage
We would expect you to be a professional archivist, with appropriate professional qualifications. Ideally you will have worked already in the field of corporate heritage, and be experienced and comfortable with both physical and digital material.
You will need the confidence to take responsibility for our heritage, and to work alongside professionals from outside the heritage field, in a live and dynamic business environment. Whilst we will support you, you need to be a self-starter who will both develop plans and take them forward. You will need to be comfortable building support and consensus amongst stakeholders, including senior people, and presenting to a range of audiences.
The role will be based in a Mott MacDonald office in the UK and will require UK and some international travel.
We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
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UK Immigration
Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.
Accessibility
We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.
Agile working
We are happy to talk openly about flexible working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.
We offer some fantastic benefits including:
Health and wellbeing
- Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
- Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
- Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
- A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
- Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
Financial wellbeing
- We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
- Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
- Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
- Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
- As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
Lifestyle
- A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
- Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
- Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
Enhanced family and carers leave
- Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
- Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
- Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
Learning and development
- Primary annual professional institution subscription.
- A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
Networks, communities, and social outcomes
- Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
- Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.
Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.
We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.
Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.
Location/s: Any of our UK officesRecruiter contact: Nikki George
Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.
We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.
Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.
About the business unit
Mott MacDonald’s support services are the driving force behind our organisation enabling us to run efficiently and effectively. The team works collaboratively to offer specialist advice, best practice and technology to all areas of our business specifically designed for our global reach.
We are seeking a senior archivist to lead establishing the professional curation of our heritage, bringing processes to maturity and then operating and developing the heritage function as an integral component of the business. We have been professionally informed that our heritage material is world class.
Our portfolio includes some of the most important social and engineering achievements, for example much of the London Underground, Egypt’s Aswan Dam, the electrification of much of Asia and the Arabian Gulf, the Channel Tunnel, Hong Kong Airport, Wembley Stadium and the Boston Central Artery. Within the last few years we have completed major roles on the Elizabeth Line, the Sydney Metro and programmes that have transformed girls’ education in Uganda and antimicrobial resistance across a dozen countries in Africa and Asia. Every day we are creating tomorrow’s heritage in around 140 countries around the world.
We would like to be better able to use our heritage to:
- Provide immutable evidence of our experience delivering truly world-class assets and projects with our clients.
- Support the codification of our culture as a collection of engineering and technical professionals that deliver amazing results.
- Present our heritage to we can use it during onboarding of new staff to help develop an emotional connection between themselves and who we are and what we represent.
- Showcase our heritage amongst a broader base of stakeholders
- with pride and authenticity. Embedding mindsets that Mott MacDonald is a vanguard of engineering excellence and a place people come to for brilliant technical opportunities.
Having treated heritage materials informally until recently we have now taken the first steps towards professional development and curation of our extensive heritage collection, and are committed to its use to inspire our clients, colleagues and the wider industry, and to discover the stories within it. Examples of our recent work in this area are a podcast exploring the Dinorwig pumped storage scheme in Wales (Europe’s largest construction project of its time) Designing Dinorwig: Inside Electric Mountain
- Engineering Matters, and another featuring our pioneering work bringing electricity to Sydney, and its parallels to today’s energy transition Electrifying Sydney: Transformational Energy Systems
- Engineering Matters.
We have the support of our Executive Chair, James Harris, as senior sponsor for this key part of what makes us who we are, and have committed to build a heritage capability within our Excellence function, with the role reporting to our Chief Technical Officer, with close collaboration with our Group Head of Strategy. The role will be linked closely with our marketing and internal engagement capabilities, as well as supporting the operational business as it looks to heritage to inform and inspire current work.
This role is an opportunity to shape the safeguarding, curation and exploitation of the firm’s heritage assets, including paper, digital and other materials relating to projects, physical artefacts, corporate documents, and the opportunity to gain oral heritage from current and retired employees. All against a backdrop of the long-lived physical realities of our built projects and their impacts on economies and on peoples’ lives. As a firm at the cutting edge of engineering we work digitally day to day, and part of the role will involve setting a path for digital heritage, and the heritage we have yet to create.
To some degree the responsibilities and duties of the senior heritage archivist will evolve as the role develops, but are expected to include:
- Owning and being accountable for the Group’s heritage assets, worldwide but with an initial focus on records held in the UK.
- Promote the value of our heritage to internal stakeholders, and coordinate any necessary rescue efforts · Lead the development and execution of a plan for the exploitation of our heritage.
- Facilitate and to an extent undertake research and interpretation.
- Work with teams in marketing, internal engagement and excellence to bring heritage to life, for business benefit. Build partnerships with other archives, including clients and peer organisations.
- Bring the current draft heritage policy to a state of completion, agreement and active use.
- Build over time a mature heritage curation capability for both physical and digital heritage.
- Work with the Group Head of Knowledge and our AI teams to create processes to capture future heritage as it is being created, and to mine existing digital assets for heritage content.
- Promote best practice in the curation and exploitation of our heritage
We would expect you to be a professional archivist, with appropriate professional qualifications. Ideally you will have worked already in the field of corporate heritage, and be experienced and comfortable with both physical and digital material.
You will need the confidence to take responsibility for our heritage, and to work alongside professionals from outside the heritage field, in a live and dynamic business environment. Whilst we will support you, you need to be a self-starter who will both develop plans and take them forward. You will need to be comfortable building support and consensus amongst stakeholders, including senior people, and presenting to a range of audiences.
The role will be based in a Mott MacDonald office in the UK and will require UK and some international travel.
We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
#LI-NG
UK Immigration
Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.
Accessibility
We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.
Agile working
We are happy to talk openly about flexible working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.
We offer some fantastic benefits including:
Health and wellbeing
- Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
- Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
- Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
- A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
- Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
Financial wellbeing
- We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
- Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
- Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
- Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
- As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
Lifestyle
- A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
- Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
- Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
Enhanced family and carers leave
- Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
- Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
- Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
Learning and development
- Primary annual professional institution subscription.
- A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
Networks, communities, and social outcomes
- Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
- Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.
Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.
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