Principal Mechanical Engineer (Building Services)

Work with Us. Change the World.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Creating places that matter and communities that thrive.

Together with our clients, we are working to evolve and elevate the built environment across sectors including, social infrastructure, transit, technology and logistics, and commercial and corporate real estate, whilst focusing on solutions that promote long term health and wellbeing for all.

We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Our global Buildings and Places business line brings together a versatile and collaborative term of urban planning, building design and engineering professionals working to create liveable, sustainable, and equitable cities.

Due to a healthy pipeline of work, our Buildings & Places group are looking for a Principal Mechanical Engineer to join their team, based in Melbourne. This role would suit someone who possesses excellent technical and design skills, with the ability to deliver projects across a range of market sectors.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Utilise your extensive design and project management expertise to ensure high-quality, cost-effective project delivery across key sectors such as healthcare, defence, transport, and other major building projects throughout Australia and New Zealand.
• Collaborate effectively within a multidisciplinary team, applying your technical leadership to review and optimize design calculations, specifications, and drawings, ensuring the highest standards of quality.
• Lead mechanical design efforts and oversee project delivery for major clients, conducting technical reviews, and providing mentorship and guidance to junior engineers across the business.
• Foster strong client relationships by engaging directly with stakeholders, offering innovative solutions, and ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes, you could still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply, all applications will be considered.  

What are we looking for from you?

• Ideally, 11 + years’ experience working for a Building Services consultancy or, possess significant design experience working for a Mechanical contractor.
• Track record of project management and leading mechanical components of building services major projects within Australia.
• Proven record in technical design and project delivery across a range of building services projects.
• An in-depth understanding of Building Services projects and standards, with outstanding communication skills to impart you technical experience to junior engineers and clients as required.
• RPEV and CPEng

Join us and let’s get started.

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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 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. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

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