Senior Mechanical Engineer

  • AECOM-1
  • Maidstone, Kent
  • Nov 01, 2025
Full time Engineering

Job Description


Company Description

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.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Due to a number of exciting new project wins, particularly within the Healthcare sector, we're looking to strengthen our team in Leeds with the addition of a Senior Mechanical Engineer .

This is a fantastic opportunity to take on a key technical role within a growing team, delivering innovative and sustainable building services solutions across a range of projects.

Here's what you'll do:
  • Report to the Associate Team Leader and take responsibility for mechanical design.
  • Provide specialist technical input to studies and designs, supporting and mentoring junior and graduate engineers.
  • Participate in interdisciplinary design reviews and contribute to high-quality project deliverables.
  • Carry out quality control reviews of design calculations and drawings.
  • Prepare detailed technical specifications and documentation.
  • Support the development of engineering budgets and project schedules.
  • Apply a solid understanding of mechanical building services design software and industry standards.

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 .

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what's possible?

Requirements:
  • Successful track record of mechanical building services design
  • Good understanding of software packages used to design mechanical building services systems
  • Experience in delivering projects using BIM software packages
  • Experience of low carbon systems, design and how to influence the built environment to reduce carbon emissions
  • The ability to understand IES or other calculation packages
  • Degree in Building Services or Mechanical Engineering
  • Working towards membership of a relevant professional body such as CIBSE

Additional Information

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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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 $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at

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

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

ReqID: J

Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Engineering

Work Location Model: Hybrid