Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Healthcare

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Healthcare

Ramboll is ranked a Top 10 consultant in the UK and has around 2,000 bright minds working across multiple offices to apply their passion to deliver innovative solutions across Buildings, Transport, Environment & Health and Energy. We love seeing our talents develop and succeed and you will have opportunities to work on challenging and inspiring projects within an environment that is friendly, open and supportive.

Bring your mechanical building‑services design expertise to Ramboll’s UK Healthcare team and help deliver sustainable, future‑ready healthcare projects across the UK and overseas. You’ll work on a varied portfolio — from major new‑build hospitals to refurbishment programmes and decarbonisation interventions — developing resilient, adaptable and low‑carbon mechanical solutions.

You will combine strong technical design skills with excellent communication and stakeholder engagement to guide projects through all stages, from feasibility to handover. This role is for a hands‑on, design‑focused engineer who wants technical ownership, client contact and the opportunity to influence sustainable healthcare environments.

As Senior Mechanical Design Engineer in Ramboll’s UK Healthcare team you will deliver mechanical building‑services design and technical leadership across a portfolio of healthcare projects in the UK and internationally. You will combine hands‑on design delivery with client engagement, team mentoring and project management to develop resilient, low‑carbon and adaptable mechanical solutions.

We offer flexible working arrangements with candidates able to work from any of our primary offices as well as home. We have an exciting range of ongoing projects including Hillerød Hospital Denmark, Cambridge Children’s Hospital, Kettering General Hospital and KEMH, Falklands Islands.

• Deliver mechanical building‑services design from feasibility to handover, ensuring compliance with UK healthcare standards.
• Develop resilient, low‑carbon and adaptable mechanical concepts and detailed designs; produce and review calculations, specifications and drawings.
• Lead MEP coordination and digital delivery using Revit (BIM 360) and industry tools (e.g., Hevacomp, Magi Cad, IES).
• Coordinate and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and specialist sub‑consultants (architects, structural, electrical, public health, QS).
• Mentor and develop junior mechanical engineers and technicians.
• Act as client‑facing technical resource: present designs, attend project meetings and build strong client and contractor relationships.
• Manage project scope, resources and delivery as mechanical/MEP project lead, identifying and mitigating technical and commercial risks.
• Promote Ramboll’s profile through high‑quality deliverables and by contributing to proposals and technical inputs.
• Embed best practice in sustainability, quality assurance and continuous improvement.
• Deliver projects to agreed budget, programme and quality standards.
• Maintain clear, collaborative relationships with design teams and stakeholders.
• Coordinate design outputs and ensure high‑quality deliverables.
• Deliver safe, sustainable and commercially viable mechanical solutions.

• Meaningful impact: work on projects that directly benefit patients, staff and communities.
• Varied portfolio: from estate renewals and long‑term programmes to major hospital new builds and decarbonisation interventions.
• Collaborative and design‑driven: partner with leading UK and international architects and specialist consultants in a culture inspired by Ramboll’s Scandinavian design heritage.
• Career development: clear progression routes, chartership support and opportunities to grow technically or into client and programme leadership.
• Flexible working: national footprint with the option to be based at any UK office and hybrid working as standard.

• Demonstrable track record delivering mechanical building services design on UK projects — ideally healthcare or other high‑resilience/technically complex schemes.
• Proven technical or project leadership with experience coordinating design teams and driving a…