Mechanical Engineer - Water Sector

AECOM; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking firm as a Mechanical Engineer, where you'll shape the future of water infrastructure. This role offers the chance to work on multi-billion-pound projects, delivering sustainable solutions that enhance communities. With a flexible hybrid working model, you'll collaborate with top-tier engineers across various disciplines, ensuring impactful contributions from concept to completion. Be part of a dynamic team that values innovation and diversity, and enjoy personalized benefits designed for your well-being and career growth.

Benefits

Career Development Opportunities

Flexible Hybrid Working Model

Technical Practice Networks

Volunteering Days

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience in water and wastewater engineering projects.

Responsibilities

• Prepare feasibility studies and detailed designs for water projects.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams on innovative solutions.
• Conduct site visits and support client liaisons.

Skills

Mechanical Engineering

Water Engineering

Technical Specifications

Design Drawings

Site Surveys

Education

Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Chartered Engineer Status (progress)

Job description

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.

Are you ready to shape the future of water infrastructure?

We’re looking for a Mechanical Engineer to join our growing Water Solutions team , with flexibility to be based in St Albans, Croydon, Basingstoke, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, or Plymouth .

In this role, you’ll play a key part in delivering multi-billion-pound capital programmes across the UK water sector, contributing to projects ranging from small rural sites to complex, multi-million-pound infrastructure and non-infrastructure schemes in both water and wastewater. These long-term frameworks extend through AMP8 and AMP9 , offering security, variety, and the opportunity to make a real impact in shaping sustainable water solutions.

You will contribute to several major frameworks, including:

Key Programmes You’ll Support:

• Southern Water – £3.7 billion Capital Delivery Programme:
• Strategic Delivery Partner (SDP) Frameworks: Supporting Tier 1 Contractors on:
• Lot 1: Non-infrastructure water projects
• Lot 2: Non-infrastructure wastewater projects
• Low Complexity Delivery Route & SDP Lot 3 Infrastructure Frameworks: Partnering exclusively with Tier 1 Contractors to deliver high-quality wastewater infrastructure projects.
• South West Water – Engineering Consultancy Services Framework:
• Lot 3 – Multi-Discipline Engineering Design
• Wessex Water – Capital Delivery Partner Framework:
• Lot 2 – Design Consultants

With flexible working from our locations, you’ll collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams to deliver innovative and sustainable solutions. As part of AECOM, you’ll engage in impactful projects from inception through to delivery, enhancing the environment and supporting communities.

Here's what you'll do:

• Preparing feasibility studies, outline design, detailed design and construction support.
• Producing design drawings, mechanical plant selection and specification.
• Liaising and collaborating with our water and other discipline teams including civil, electrical, process and mechanical engineers nationwide.
• Preparing design of mechanical installations typically including municipal water and wastewater pumping stations, screens, grit removal plant, penstocks, valves, odour control systems, pipework etc.
• Site visits to carry out site surveys and the support of liaisons with clients, contractors & suppliers.
• Producing plant layouts, technical specifications, Wimes datasheets, valve schedules, equipment schedules, lifting strategies and P&IDs
• Producing headloss calculations and pumping system analysis / pump selection

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives. Why not give our AECOM Water page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see firsthand the difference we're making in the industry!

Come grow with us.

Become part of our dynamic Water business, which boasts around 700 experts across the UK & Ireland, including 170 specialists across our England & Wales Water Solutions team. Collaborate with top-tier civil, mechanical, electrical, and process engineers to deliver a variety of captivating projects, from small initiatives to large-scale ventures, all the way from concept to completion. Here, you’ll thrive in an inclusive and forward-thinking environment where your contributions are valued.

Enjoy the Perks.

At AECOM you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised 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?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• A degree (or equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering.
• Progress towards Chartered Engineer status with a relevant institution, such as IMechE.
• A proven ability to deliver engineering designs, reports, drawings, technical specifications, and calculations with confidence and precision.
• Hands-on experience in delivering innovative solutions for water and wastewater engineering projects.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [e-mail]. 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!

Additional Information

Interested in the role or curious about life at AECOM? Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to explore our AECOM voices, employee stories, latest projects, and much more!

For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn - Jay Hewitt

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 $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. 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.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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

ReqID: J10121747

Business Line: Water

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Engineering

Work Location Model: Hybrid

Legal Entity: AECOM Limited