Mechanical Engineer

AECOM; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development opportunities

Flexible hybrid working model

Technical practice networks

Volunteering days

Job summary

A global infrastructure consulting firm is looking for a Mechanical Engineer to join their MEP team. The successful candidate will produce engineering designs, manage projects, and perform site inspections in a hybrid working environment. Applicants should possess a Mechanical Building Services degree and relevant software skills. Benefits include career development opportunities and a flexible work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Mechanical Building Services degree qualified with CEng (or working towards).
• Proficient in the use of Hevacomp design or other appropriate software.
• Familiar with IES Virtual Environment modelling software.
• Competent in designing coordinated service runs.

Responsibilities

• Produce Mechanical building services engineering designs.
• Execute projects within defined parameters.
• Prepare technical specifications and reports.
• Represent the company at client meetings.
• Design quality reviews/audits as required.

Skills

Mechanical Building Services knowledge

Proficient in Hevacomp

IES Virtual Environment experience

NBS specifications competency

Coordination with electrical colleagues

BIM level 2 knowledge

Knowledge of Water Regulations

Quality assurance understanding

Building Regulations experience

Sustainability awareness

Education

Mechanical Building Services degree

Tools

Revit

Job description

• Legal Entity: AECOM Infrastructure and Environment UK Limited
• Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places
• Work Location Model: Hybrid
• Operating Group: International
• Primary Location: UK - Leeds

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. 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 of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals 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

Start here. Grow here.

Our MEP team is looking for a Mechanical Engineer to join our growing team.

You'll be part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary business with over 600 staff across Building Engineering (MEP, Civil and Structural), Project Management, Quantity Surveying, Transportation, Water, Energy, and Environmental Consultancy.

Our Building Services work spans a wide range of sectors, including Defence, Healthcare, Education, Science, Industrial, Commercial, and Client Advisory, across the UK and abroad.

What you’ll do.

• Produce Mechanical building services engineering designs from concept design through to construction issue and site supervision.
• Execute projects within defined design, programme and cost parameters
• Carrying out designs on a variety of buildings within different sectors i.e. schools, healthcare, offices, leisure facilities, Government buildings, industrial etc
• Prepare technical specifications, design risk assessments, reports and drawings.
• Represent AECOM at meetings with clients and contractors.
• Site surveys and inspections where appropriate.
• Conduct design quality reviews/audits as required.
• Maintaining records and archives to company standards
• Assist with processes for the development of staff in order to enhance the standards, expertise and reputation of AECOM.
• Promote and improve inter-discipline working with other disciplines such as Architecture, Building Surveying, Civil and Structural.
• Monitor emerging legislation and engineering standards relating to electrical building services and ensure their implementation.
• Input to the design change control process and estimate cost and /or time implications where so delegated.
• Cooperate with quality, safety and environmental objectives and contribute to the AECOM commitment for continual improvement.
• Assist in the production of fee estimates and bids.

Come grow with us:

And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Requirements:

• Mechanical Building Services degree qualified with CEng (or working towards)
• Proficient in the use of Hevacomp design or other appropriate software.
• Familiar with and good working experience of IES Virtual Environment modelling software or equivalent.
• Competent in the use of NBS specification writing software.
• Competent in designing coordinated service runs and optimising ceiling spaces with electrical colleagues and other disciplines.
• Familiar with and good working experience of BIM level 2 drawing outputs required for 3D modelling in Revit software.
• Knowledge of Water Regs, CoPs and CIBSE Design Guides.
• Possess an intuitive approach to initial loading estimates to generate utility quotations.
• A good understanding of quality assurance, safety and environmental sustainability.
• Familiar with and good working experience of Building Regulations requirements for energy conservation and low carbon technologies, ensuring that sustainability and compliance is achieved with all our projects.
• Capable of managing a small project from start to finish, maintaining standards and being aware of fee and time constraints.
• Design experience of hot and cold water systems and distribution, ventilation, heating, chilled water and above ground drainage.
• A good understanding of sustainability issues including passive design and low and zero carbon technologies.
• An inherently safety focussed individual, with safety integrated in everything they do.
• Organise and prioritise their own time and tasks to enable the simultaneous running of several projects
• Be able to logically analyse problems from first principles to determine solutions.

Additional Information

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options.Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you'll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

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All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.