Senior Mechanical Engineer

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Due to a healthy pipeline of work, our Buildings & Places group are looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join their team, based in Canberra.

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 experience to facilitate high-quality and cost-effective project delivery on health, defence, government, transport and other building projects across ANZ.
• Lead Mechanical design and project delivery for our major client projects, including the technical review of projects and management of small project teams, while also providing guidance and mentoring to junior engineers within the business when preparing technical design documentation.
• Work effectively within a team of multi-disciplinary engineers on a range of projects, using your technical expertise to drive quality through review of design calculations, specifications and drawings.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders across our expansive multi-disciplinary engineering team to provide technical advice on some community and place making defining projects.

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. 

• Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering Degree
• Ideally, 5-10+ years’ experience working for a Building Services consultancy.
• A proven record in technical design and project delivery whilst maintaining and enhancing client relationships.
• Hold necessary qualifications to obtain registration in the ACT and other jurisdictions (e.g. CPEng and/or NER credentials).
• In-depth understanding of Building Services projects and Standards to impart your technical knowledge to clients, junior engineers and broader teams on a range of major projects.
• Exposure to running multiple technical projects simultaneously with demonstrable design experience across a variety of market sectors.
• Experience in leading small and large teams at the project level, managing project teams, deliverables, budgets and schedule.
• Excellent communication and people skills with the passion and ability to mentor and train younger Engineers within the business.
• Drive innovation and efficiency improvements within the team.
• Experience working in building mechanical services design including heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, automatic control systems, building management systems, mechanical electrical systems. Experience in industrial gas and ventilation systems and high-reliability system design is also desirable.
• Proficiency in industry standard software including AutoCAD, Camel, Revit, MS Office.

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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 culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – 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 and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. 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.