Public Health Engineer
Company: AECOM
Role summary
Public Health Engineer is a role at AECOM in Bristol, England, United Kingdom (hybrid). Posted 2026-10-06. Experience level: 5-10.
- Job title
- Public Health Engineer
- Company
- AECOM
- Location
- Bristol, England, United Kingdom
- Work arrangement
- hybrid
- Category
- Software Engineering
- Experience level
- 5-10
- Date posted
- 2026-10-06
AECOM is looking for a Public Health Engineer to join their team and help make a difference in communities worldwide. This is a full-time role with opportunities to work on impactful projects that improve infrastructure and people's lives.
Job description
Company Description
Work with Us. Change the World.
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.
There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. 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.
We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.
Job Description
Are you a highly motivated multi-disciplinary engineer looking to work on building projects that can change the world, projects that are always more complex and innovative than the last?
We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineer to join our MEP team. This is a hybrid role and you could be based in our London, Croydon, St.Albans, Manchester, Leeds, Exeter, Cardiff or Bristol office to work across a broad range of sectors and for a broad range of clients. You will be joining a team of like-minded experts that have a passion for innovation and delivering cutting edge solutions.
About Us:
AECOM plays a critical role in the conceptualisation and creation of amazing spaces, delivering projects and buildings that define skylines and communities. AECOM Buildings & Places – Design is made up of dedicated teams delivering projects in Commercial, Residential, Hospitality, Sports Venues, Work Places, Data Centres, Education, Government, Healthcare and Defence.
We are friendly, busy and motivated with an established track record of successfully delivering local and overseas projects. Some of our flagship work in recent years include:
Healthcare : AECOM is a leading award-winning consultant for the NHS in the UK and internationally, delivering projects ranging from major acute hospitals to primary care and estate refurbishment schemes, while supporting the NHS Net Zero Carbon agenda.
Decarbonisation : Multiple projects where we have undertaken the feasibility of the removal of boilers and installation of Air Source and Water source heat pumps to provide the heating and cooling for the building. Projects include commercial buildings like 80 – 100 Victoria Street London, British Library, multiple residential buildings in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and even Windsor Castle.
Stratford Cross : A major mixed-use regeneration development in Stratford, East London, located within the former Olympic Park area. Our team are providing multi-discipline services including MEP, civil & structural, vertical transportation, energy & sustainability, acoustics, air quality, ecology, transport, waste management, and façade engineering.
Data Centres : Working for multiple major hyperscale projects in the Nordics, Iberia and South America. These projects provide the opportunity to tackle the issue of data management and storage specific to each country. Designing and implementing a highly resilient electrical infrastructure entails the usage of an efficient system that is highly sustainable.
Lansdowne House : High-end commercial office development occupying the South-East side of Berkley Square, Mayfair, City of Westminster, with an all- electric energy centre containing Ground Source Heat Pumps, Air Source Heat Pumps and High Efficiency Chillers.
10 Dock: Western Europe’s largest naval dockyard in Plymouth, a defence project of enormous scale and multiple components that must come together as a solution to meet a new capability.
About Our Team:
Our award-winning and close-knit Building Services team have a strong presence across sectors and we have and a strong Public Health engineering team throughout the UK. The team is seeking to expand their capabilities further by adding a Senior Public Health Engineer with experience in delivering sustainable projects across multiple sectors, has excellent team working and co-ordination skills and strives for technical excellence.
You will be an integral part of the diverse and dynamic national AECOM PH team which will support your technical career development. Challenges such as the net zero agenda and water neutrality provide great opportunities for your career to flourish with the role also including Fire Protection systems design which will be supported by our experienced specialist fire protection engineering team to provide the opportunity to develop new design skills. The position is predominantly office located role to ensure face-to-face contact time with the team.
The Senior Engineer will be responsible for leading much of the Public Health and Fire Protection systems design on projects and involve client liaison, mentoring and leading the discipline/systems to prepare scheme and detailed engineering designs. The successful candidate will have proven design experience, delivering to quality, time and budget. This role will suit someone with who is enthusiastic, self-motivated, and looking to advance their career.
The role will include taking point lead on multiple PH systems design/calculations on a project as well as assisting the lead PH engineer with experience in the following systems:
Hot and cold water systems
Above ground foul and rainwater system
Fire Protection Systems
Below Ground drainage systems
Pumped drainage systems
Water and oil leak detection systems
Rainwater harvesting and Greywater recycling systems
Water conservation solutions
BREEAM, LEED and Ska Rating design integration
Duties of the role will include, but not be limited to;
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