Mechanical Handling Equipment Engineer – Nuclear

Overview

As a Mechanical Handling Equipment Engineer at AECOM in Adelaide, you shape the design and delivery of cranes, hoists, and heavy lifting systems for highly regulated infrastructure. You collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to integrate handling systems across the project lifecycle, from concept to commissioning. Your work supports safety, regulatory compliance, and operational readiness on complex facilities. This role offers impactful work on nuclear and defence infrastructure within a global engineering team.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Additional annual leave up to 6 weeks
• Flex public holidays
• Continuous learning and development
• Professional development courses
• 5 days paid study leave

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of mechanical handling systems (cranes, hoists, lifting devices) ensuring compliance with project and regulatory requirements
• Develop and review technical specifications, calculations, and design documentation across concept to detailed design phases
• Collaborate with structural, civil, electrical, controls, process and building services teams to integrate handling systems
• Perform optioneering, load path, heavy-lift assessments, constructability reviews and risk assessments
• Provide technical leadership to engineers and designers with a strong emphasis on safety, quality and delivery
• Support safety cases, engineering justifications, procurement activities, vendor reviews and technical bid evaluations for safety-significant equipment
• Support testing, inspection, commissioning and acceptance activities with suppliers and project teams
• Contribute to reliability, maintainability, inspection and lifecycle requirements for critical lifting assets
• Support project scope, program and delivery objectives through design development and reviews

Key requirements

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
• Experience delivering crane, lifting or mechanical handling systems on major infrastructure, industrial, defence, energy, marine, nuclear or other highly regulated projects
• Experience in nuclear industry or other highly regulated environment
• Experience developing engineering documentation with focus on safety, risk, and regulatory requirements
• Demonstrated technical leadership and ability to work across multidisciplinary teams (structural, civil, electrical, controls, process)
• Strong understanding of mechanical handling equipment, lifting systems, load paths and interfaces
• Experience with overhead/gantry cranes, specialised lifting systems, crane runway systems, heavy lifts or remote handling (desirable)
• Knowledge of safety-significant or safety-classified equipment, nuclear safety culture, ALARP, reliability and lifecycle requirements
• Experience with requirements/configuration management, systems engineering, verification/validation, vendor management, procurement, factory acceptance testing, commissioning and operational readiness (desirable)
• CPEng/Chartered status or commitment to professional registration (desirable)
• Ability to meet defence/AUKUS clearance requirements

• Technical leadership
• Cross-disciplinary collaboration
• Safety-focused mindset
• Mechanical handling systems
• Cranes and hoists
• Load path analysis

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