Senior Associate Mechanical Engineer

Company: Hays
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Location: Liverpool
Job Description:

Overview

In this Senior Mechanical Designer role, you lead delivery of robust, compliant building services designs for education-sector projects across the North West. You work closely with cross-functional teams to shape designs for new builds, refurbishments, and government-funded schemes. You act as a technical lead and client-facing point of contact, driving continuous improvement in design processes. This is an opportunity to influence major projects and help grow the consultancy’s education-focused portfolio.

Pay / Benefits

  • AXA Health Insurance
  • Pension
  • Extra holidays for long service
  • Performance bonus
  • Professional subscriptions paid
  • Life insurance”,”Electric vehicle plan (car allowance included)

Responsibilities

  • Lead mechanical design delivery across multidisciplinary projects
  • Produce and review mechanical designs, specifications, calculations, and reports
  • Undertake condition, asset, and life cycle surveys with costed recommendations
  • Ensure compliance with Building Regulations, CIBSE guidance, H&S standards
  • Support workload planning and resourcing
  • Contribute to government-funded programmes and major project delivery
  • Act as a key technical contact for clients
  • Support junior engineers and technicians
  • Drive innovation and continuous improvement across design processes
  • Assist with framework submissions and bid documentation
  • Strengthen client relationships and support repeat business

Key requirements

  • HNC/HND or BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering
  • Strong background in mechanical building services design
  • Experience within a consultancy or Contractor
  • Ideally, experience working within the Public Sector / Education Sector
  • Confident communicator with strong client-facing skills
  • Analytical, proactive problem-solver
  • Ability to lead and coordinate mechanical design on complex projects
  • Experience conducting mechanical condition surveys
  • Enhanced DBS required
  • confident communicator
  • client-facing
  • analytical
  • mechanical building services design
  • design calculations and reports
  • condition surveys

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Posted: September 22nd, 2026