Around the world, SYSTRA’s specialists plan, design, integrate, test, commission, project manage and deliver mass transit and mobility solutions that are relied on by more than 50 million people every day.

For more than 60 years, the Group has been committed to helping cities and regions contribute to their development by creating, improving and modernising their transport infrastructure with sustainability, accessibility and innovation at the heart of our designs. With over 10,300 colleagues globally and around 1000 in the UK & Ireland we are growing significantly and seeking out the very best talent to join the SYSTRA signature team and be part of leading the way in infrastructure design.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Mechanical Engineer to join our MEP engineering team. This position within our MEP engineering team will suit a committed and ambitious engineer who can demonstrate strong leadership and interpersonal skills combined with commercial awareness and the ability to play their part in a high-performance team.

This role would ideally be based in our York or Manchester offices with Birmingham, Reading and London as additional possibilities, adopting a hybrid working model blending home working with time in the office to collaborate with colleagues on projects. Our priority is finding the right individual to join this small, high performing team on key projects and would love to hear from you to find out more.

The Mechanical Engineer’s main duties will be to support a team of Mechanical Engineers reporting to the Principal Mechanical Engineer and act as Engineer on MEP projects allocated to them by the Discipline Lead M&E. The Mechanical Engineer will be accountable for the design delivery of Mechanical Design allocated to MEP Projects

• Involved in major projects within the Engineering discipline covering both rail and non-rail services
• Ensuring projects are completed to meet all client’s requirements and applicable standards and to the agreed project programme.
• Ensuring projects are completed to the agreed budget.
• Plan the project works and provide forward view resource forecasting to enable the team leader to allocate suitable resource to the projects.
• Identify changes to the projects client requirements and raise the changes with the SYSTRA Project Management Team.
• Provide monthly cost to complete forecasts to the SYSTRA Project Management Team

• Minimum HNC qualified in Mechanical Engineering or demonstrable equivalent experience. Ideally Chartered status.
• This role requires considerable experience and expertise in order to manage complex or non-standard design solutions.
• Detailed knowledge of mechanical services design within the built environment or transport infrastructure including HVAC, Public Health, Building Physics and BIM
• Detailed knowledge of multi-disciplinary issues associated with M&E and building services
• Detailed knowledge of construction principles and standards
• Have a good understanding of CSM/CDM regulations and requirements.
• Good communication and presentation skills for external presentations to clients.
• Maintaining good relationships with all external parties to enhance the reputation of the company.
• Maintaining good relationships with Engineers from other internal discipline teams to promote good inter-discipline working relationships and a “One Team” ethos.