Senior Mechanical Engineer

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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.

• 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 ’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?

• 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

• 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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