Public Health Engineer

Aecom; Ledston; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a Senior Public Health Engineer to join the Building Services team in the UK. The role involves leading public health and fire protection system design across varied projects, mentoring staff, and coordinating with Architects, Quantity Surveyors and Consultants.

The position emphasizes delivering quality within time and budget, with a strong focus on BIM and Revit collaboration. The role is predominantly office-based with hybrid work options across multiple UK offices, including

Qualifications

• Minimum Requirements: Public health engineering work experience within design consultancy or related business
• Knowledge of statutory regulations to ensure design compliance and approvals
• Ability to work independently with good time management
• Experience in mixed-use, residential, commercial and healthcare buildings/sectors
• AutoCAD proficiency to produce 2D drawings
• 3D Revit software and Navisworks proficiency
• Strong communication and presentation skills

Responsibilities

• Lead PH and Fire Protection system design on projects
• Mentor and develop staff within the discipline
• Manage small multi-disciplinary projects and coordinate information from Architects, Quantity Surveyors and Design Consultants
• Ensure design team is informed of technical information and QA requirements
• Support BIM processes including Revit input and model coordination
• Represent AECOM at client, design team and progress meetings
• Assist lead PH engineer with pre-qualification and tender responses
• Ensure projects comply with Project Management Plan and Programme
• Adhere to Safety, Health and Environment policies

Job description

Job Description

Are you a highly motivated multi-disciplinary engineer looking to work on building projects that can change the world, projects that are always more complex and innovative than the last?

We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineer to join our MEP team. This is a hybrid role and you could be based in our London, Croydon, St.Albans, Manchester, Leeds, Exeter, Cardiff or Bristol office to work across a broad range of sectors and for a broad range of clients. You will be joining a team of like-minded experts that have a passion for innovation and delivering cutting edge solutions.

About Us:

AECOM plays a critical role in the conceptualisation and creation of amazing spaces, delivering projects and buildings that define skylines and communities. AECOM Buildings & Places – Design is made up of dedicated teams delivering projects in Commercial, Residential, Hospitality, Sports Venues, Work Places, Data Centres, Education, Government, Healthcare and Defence.

We are friendly, busy and motivated with an established track record of successfully delivering local and overseas projects. Some of our flagship work in recent years include:

• Healthcare: AECOM is a leading award-winning consultant for the NHS in the UK and internationally, delivering projects ranging from major acute hospitals to primary care and estate refurbishment schemes, while supporting the NHS Net Zero Carbon agenda.
• Decarbonisation: Multiple projects where we have undertaken the feasibility of the removal of boilers and installation of Air Source and Water source heat pumps to provide the heating and cooling for the building. Projects include commercial buildings like 80 – 100 Victoria Street London, British Library, multiple residential buildings in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and even Windsor Castle.
• Stratford Cross: A major mixed-use regeneration development in Stratford, East London, located within the former Olympic Park area. Our team are providing multi-discipline services including MEP, civil & structural, vertical transportation, energy & sustainability, acoustics, air quality, ecology, transport, waste management, and façade engineering.
• Data Centres: Working for multiple major hyperscale projects in the Nordics, Iberia and South America. These projects provide the opportunity to tackle the issue of data management and storage specific to each country. Designing and implementing a highly resilient electrical infrastructure entails the usage of an efficient system that is highly sustainable.
• Lansdowne House: High-end commercial office development occupying the South-East side of Berkley Square, Mayfair, City of Westminster, with an all- electric energy centre containing Ground Source Heat Pumps, Air Source Heat Pumps and High Efficiency Chillers.
• 10 Dock: Western Europe’s largest naval dockyard in Plymouth, a defence project of enormous scale and multiple components that must come together as a solution to meet a new capability.

About Our Team:

Our award-winning and close-knit Building Services team have a strong presence across sectors and we have and a strong Public Health engineering team throughout the UK. The team is seeking to expand their capabilities further by adding a Senior Public Health Engineer with experience in delivering sustainable projects across multiple sectors, has excellent team working and co-ordination skills and strives for technical excellence.

You will be an integral part of the diverse and dynamic national AECOM PH team which will support your technical career development. Challenges such as the net zero agenda and water neutrality provide great opportunities for your career to flourish with the role also including Fire Protection systems design which will be supported by our experienced specialist fire protection engineering team to provide the opportunity to develop new design skills. The position is predominantly office located role to ensure face-to-face contact time with the team.

The Senior Engineer will be responsible for leading much of the Public Health and Fire Protection systems design on projects and involve client liaison, mentoring and leading the discipline/systems to prepare scheme and detailed engineering designs. The successful candidate will have proven design experience, delivering to quality, time and budget. This role will suit someone with who is enthusiastic, self-motivated, and looking to advance their career.

The role will include taking point lead on multiple PH systems design/calculations on a project as well as assisting the lead PH engineer with experience in the following systems:

• Hot and cold water systems
• Above ground foul and rainwater system
• Fire Protection Systems
• Below Ground drainage systems
• Pumped drainage systems
• Water and oil leak detection systems
• Rainwater harvesting and Greywater recycling systems
• Water conservation solutions
• BREEAM, LEED and Ska Rating design integration

Duties of the role will include, but not be limited to;

• Maintaining Client relationships
• Mentoring and developing staff
• Project Managing small sized multi-disciplinary projects
• Obtain the necessary information both internally and externally from Architects, Quantity Surveyors and Design Consultants to provide a fully coordinated design
• Ensure the Design Team is kept fully informed of all technical and other information necessary for the duration of the project
• Be familiar with the BIM design process and be capable of input and support for projects designed in Revit
• Ensure compliance with all Statutory and Regulatory obligations, make submissions to the Statutory Authorities and obtain approvals as necessary
• Produce all design information and ensure that all calculations are prepared and signed off in accordance with the requirements of the QA procedures, relevant Standards and Codes of Practice
• Represent AECOM at Client, Design Team and Progress meetings throughout the design and construction phases of projects
• Support AECOM PM with input to pre-qualification and selection of contractors, also respond to tender queries, comment and review tender returns
• Ensure the project work complies with the Project Management Plan and Programme
• Understand and implement AECOM’s Safety Health and Environment Policy

Minimum Requirements:

• Previous public health engineering work experience within design consultancy or other relevant business
• A comprehensive working knowledge of statutory regulations to ensure design compliance, make submissions to the statutory authorities and obtaining approvals as necessary
• Be able to work independently and have good time/task management skills
• Experience in mixed used, residential, commercial and healthcare buildings/sectors
• Fully competent in the use of AutoCad to produce 2D drawings
• Fully competence in using 3D Revit software and Navisworks reviewing software
• Ability to speak fluently and communicate effectively in written reports and oral presentations

Due to the nature of the projects for this role it is preferable that you are able to obtain a minimum of BPSS.

Qualifications

• Chartered Engineer with CIBSE / IET / IMechE (or working towards)
• BEng for a relevant engineering course (MEng preferred)
• CIBSE SoPHE Member

Additional Information

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 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.