Senior Mechanical Engineer

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.

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our expanding Building Services team in Scotland.

Our Scotland 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 Healthcare, Education, Science, Industrial, and Client Advisory.

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.

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• 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.
  

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.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

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• 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 Mechanical Engineering / Building Services design, including developing detailed design drawings and calculations, specification writing, and compiling technical schedules.
  
• A track record of having worked on various Building Services designs, for example, 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 IES and working knowledge of REVIT / CAD is preferred
  
• Ability to become Security Cleared
  

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• Ideally, a Mechanical, building services graduate, or a relevant discipline.
  
• Chartered or with qualifications to become chartered.
  

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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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.

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 if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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

ReqID: J10136479

Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Engineering

Work Location Model: Hybrid