Graduate Mechanical Engineer / Water - Belfast (Summer 2026 starts)

URS Scott Wilson (Aecom); Belfast; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global infrastructure consulting firm in Belfast is seeking mechanical engineers to support asset management. Responsibilities include examining hydraulic systems, designing plant room layouts, and ensuring compliance with client standards. Ideal candidates should have a strong background in mechanical engineering and experience in collaborative design processes.

Qualifications

• Experience in mechanical engineering, particularly in hydraulic systems.
• Familiarity with designing plant room layouts and performance specifications.
• Ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Examine hydraulics to calculate and specify pump systems.
• Develop layouts for plant rooms ensuring safe maintenance access.
• Collaborate with other design disciplines to ensure correct interfacing.

Job description

Overview

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Our Mechanical engineering team supports clients with the management of their assets. This work can encompass everything from designing complete new build treatments works through to assessing the condition of existing plant and machinery. They play an important role in helping our clients develop new assets or improvements to existing, offering both improved performance and efficiency.

Our mechanical water engineers examine the hydraulics of systems to calculate and specify pump systems, as well as developing plant room layouts. They ensure designs meet the required performance also providing suitable access for operators so that the equipment can be safely maintained, and develop performance specifications and schedules to define all items of equipment, whilst ensuring that they comply with the relevant client and industry standards. They also initiate control philosophies to define how a plant will operate, before collaborating with the other designers. The successful applicants will work closely with other design disciplines and stakeholders, to ensure that the design elements interface correctly, and the design fits all parties requirements.