Apprenticeship lessons learned – panel event

James Lambeth

Aimee Jones

Aimee is a Civil Engineer Degree Apprentice working at Mott MacDonald in the Water Consultancy Division. During her apprenticeship, Aimee has worked on a variety of different projects, such as delivering river restoration design, designing solutions to improve the ecological health of the river, whilst reducing flood risk and having a nature-first mindset. She has also been working on High Speed 2 Phase 1 in the rivers discipline, delivering a range of technical design from watercourse diversions/realignments to replacement floodplain storage areas to scour protection design. Recently she has taken on a Lessons Learnt role on the project, helping to lead the lessons learnt process and driving continuous improvement on the project.

Aimee is passionate about driving change in the industry, and has taken on a number of additional roles on top of project work. She is the Early Career Professional apprentice lead for the Water and Environment division within Mott MacDonald, and is a part of the Apprenticeship Ambassador Network – whereby she strives to raise awareness around apprenticeships and make improvements to the scheme. She is also the Mott MacDonald Brighton office Brilliant Neighbour champion, whereby she has organised beach cleans, city tidy-up days and other sustainability events. As well as delivering a voluntary SuDS project in a local school. 

Aimee is one of the ICE President’s Future Leaders for the 2023/24 cohort, and wants to use the platform to have a positive impact, helping to bring nature, climate and people to the heart on the engineering and built environment profession.

Kayla Browne

Mitchell Hardiman