Senior Mechanical Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Career development opportunities

AECOM University

Volunteering days

Job summary

AECOM in the Midlands is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to lead and support mid-to-large Building Services projects from concept through handover. You will deliver detailed design drawings, calculations, specifications, and schedules while coordinating with multidisciplinary teams.

Ideally chartered or working towards chartered status, you will engage with clients, attend meetings, and help drive low-energy, sustainable design across sectors including healthcare, education, and defence,

Qualifications

• Active UK SC clearance or the ability to obtain UK SC clearance.
• Chartered status or working towards chartered status preferred.
• Experience across Blue Light, Defence, Industrial, Education, Science, Healthcare sectors.

Responsibilities

• Prepare specifications, schedules, drawings, and other contract documents through the RIBA/project stages.
• Manage the mechanical design delivery of projects from concept through to completion.
• Attend project and Client meetings on behalf of AECOM.
• Prepare planning, design, and feasibility reports.
• Ensure that project work complies with the Project Management Plan and Programme.

Skills

Specifications writing

Client meetings

Team collaboration

Building Services design

Communication skills

Revit/CAD

Low-energy design

Education

Building Services degree

Tools

REVIT

CAD

Job description

Job Responsibilities

• Prepare specifications, schedules, drawings, and other contract documents through the RIBA/project stages.
• Manage the mechanical design delivery of projects from concept through to completion.
• Attend project and Client meetings on behalf of AECOM.
• Prepare planning, design, and feasibility reports.
• Ensure that project work complies with the Project Management Plan and Programme.

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. You will be exposed to and grow from the diverse range of projects and multi-disciplinary approach that AECOM can offer and will have opportunity to work across a larger AECOM team, often with national and international projects.

The Senior Mechanical Engineer will lead and support mid-large projects from concept to handover. The successful candidate will have proven design experience and deliver on quality, time, and budget. This role will suit someone with a mechanical engineering/building services degree who is enthusiastic, self‑motivated, and looking to advance their career. The successful candidate will ideally be chartered or working towards chartered status.

• To have a passion and have a drive for helping clients solve their building services challenges
• Be a team player, ready to engage across disciplines and work together
• Have good communication skills
• Experience in Building Services design, including developing detailed design drawings and calculations, specification writing, and compiling technical schedules.
• A track record of having worked on Building Services designs across a number of sectors, for example, Blue Light, Defence, Industrial, Education, Science, Healthcare, etc
• Experience of seeing conceptual designs through to completion and dealing directly with clients.
• A track record of having delivered low-energy, sustainable designs.
• Experience in Blue Light, Defence, Justice, Industrial and decarbonisation sectors.
• A working knowledge of REVIT / CAD is preferred

Important Details

• Due to the nature of the work undertaken successful applicants will need to have active UK SC Clearance or the ability to gain UK SC clearance, and ideally have sole UK nationality, Ideally, a relevant mechanical, electrical, or building services degree, or a relevant discipline and sufficient industry experience to allow Chartered progression
• Chartered or with qualifications to become chartered.
• Any Nuclear or equivalent experience in nuclear/marine systems would be beneficial but not essential.

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., We are currently recruiting for a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our expanding Building Services team in the Midlands. Our Midlands MEP team works closely with our other multidisciplinary teams with over 600 staff covering Building (MEP, Civil, and Structural) Engineering, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, Transportation, Water, Energy, and environmental consultancy. Our Building Services sector coverage is broad, including Defence, Healthcare, Education, Science, Industrial, and Client Advisory, 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.

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