Remote Senior Mechanical Engineer - Water Sector in Northampton

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.

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.

In this role, you’ll play a key part in delivering multi-billion-pound capital programmes across the UK water sector, contributing to projects ranging from small rural sites to complex, multi-million-pound infrastructure and non-infrastructure schemes in both water and wastewater. These long-term frameworks extend through AMP8 and AMP9, offering security, variety, and the opportunity to make a real impact in shaping sustainable water solutions.

• Producing feasibility studies, outline design, detailed design and construction support.
• Producing design drawings, mechanical plant selection and specification.
• Liaising and collaborating with our water and other discipline teams including civil, electrical, process and mechanical engineers nationwide.
• Deliver a high calibre of technical quality, contribute to bids, interface with clients and collaborators in design and planning.
• Deliver to agreed budget, programme and quality along with supporting the preparation of project budget & programme.
• Responsible for the design of mechanical installations typically including municipal water and wastewater pumping stations, screens, grit removal plant, penstocks, valves, odour control systems, pipework etc.
• Site visits to carry out site surveys and the support of liaisons with clients, contractors & suppliers.
• Producing plant layouts, technical specifications, Wimes datasheets, valve schedules, equipment schedules, lifting strategies and P&IDs.
• Producing pumping stations designs, headloss calculations and pumping system analysis / pump selection.

Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives. Become part of our dynamic Water business, which boasts around 700 experts across the UK & Ireland, including 170 specialists across our England & Wales Water Solutions team. Collaborate with top-tier civil, mechanical, electrical, and process engineers to deliver a variety of captivating projects, from small initiatives to large-scale ventures, all the way from concept to completion.

Here, you’ll thrive in an inclusive and forward-thinking environment where your contributions are valued. 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.

A degree (or equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering is required, along with a proven ability to deliver engineering designs, reports, drawings, technical specifications, and calculations with confidence and precision. Hands-on experience in delivering innovative solutions for water and wastewater engineering projects is essential.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us.