Principal Mechanical Engineer - Water

AECOM; Manor Park; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a Principal Mechanical Engineer to lead the MEICA design team within its growing UK water business. You will manage multi-billion-pound capital programmes, from concept to delivery, across water and wastewater schemes, including both infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects.

You will drive design quality, collaborate with civil, electrical and process engineers, manage budgets and schedules, and engage with clients to secure safe, sustainable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Mechanical Engineering.
• Chartered Engineer status or working towards it with a recognised institution.
• Experience in water and/or wastewater industries.
• Proven expertise in pump station design, piping design, hydraulics, and producing/approving reports, drawings, and specs.

Responsibilities

• Lead mechanical design team for MEICA projects in water/wastewater.
• Develop feasibility studies, outline and detailed designs, and provide construction support.
• Prepare and review pumping and air blower system designs and associated calculations.
• Prepare and review design drawings, select mechanical plant, specifications & datasheets.
• Review 3D models and produce layouts, datasheets and P&IDs.

Skills

Chartered Engineer status

Water/wastewater experience

Pump station design

Piping design

Hydraulics analysis

Education

Mechanical Engineering degree

Chartered Engineer (IMechE)

Tools

CAD software

3D modelling software

Job description

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:

• Lead mechanical design team for the projects involved in.
• Develop feasibility studies, outline and detailed designs, and provide construction support.
• Prepare and review of pumping system, air blower system design calculations
• Prepare and review design drawings, select mechanical plant, technical specifications & datasheets.
• 3D model review
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including civil, electrical, process, and mechanical engineers.
• Ensure high technical quality deliverables, contribute to bids, and maintain client relationships.
• Manage project budgets, schedules, and deliverables to meet agreed targets.
• Design mechanical installations for water and wastewater systems, including pumps, screens, lifting equipment, valves, and air blower.
• Conduct site surveys and liaise with clients, contractors, and suppliers.
• Produce layouts, technical specifications, datasheets, and P&IDs for system designs.

As well as providing innovative and industry leading MEICA solutions to Clients, the team also collaborates with a wide variety of disciplines from other offices in delivering projects, including a close working relationship with our Enterprise Capabilities centres in India, South Africa and Romania.

Why Join 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, technical practice networks, AECOM University, volunteering days and our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle.

Become part of our dynamic Water business, which boasts around 700 experts across the UK & Ireland. Collaborate with top-tier engineers and consultants to deliver a variety of captivating projects, from small initiatives to large-scale ventures, all the way from concept to completion. At AECOM, you'll thrive in an inclusive and forward-thinking environment where your contributions are valued.

Qualifications Ready to push the limits of what's possible?

Here's what we're looking for:

• A degree (or equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering.
• Chartered Engineer status (or working towards it) through a recognised institution like IMechE.
• Experience in the water and/or wastewater industry.
• Proven expertise in pump station design, piping design, valve selection, hydraulics, producing reviewing, and approving engineering reports, designs, drawings, and specifications.

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 Are you ready to shape the future of water infrastructure?

We're looking for a Principal Mechanical Engineer to join our growing water team . You will 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.

Key Programmes You'll Support:

• South West Water - Engineering Consultancy Services Framework: Lot 3 - Multi-Discipline Engineering Design
• Wessex Water - Capital Delivery Partner Framework: Lot 2 - Design Consultants
• 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.,

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

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 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.