Mechanical Design Engineer

⚙️ Intermediate Mechanical Design Engineer

📍 Location: Solihull / West Midlands

🏢 Building Services | MEP Design

We are looking for an experienced Mechanical Design Engineer to support the delivery of coordinated mechanical building services designs across a range of built environment projects.

This opportunity would suit someone at Intermediate to early Senior level who can take ownership of technical design work, produce practical project outputs and communicate clearly with clients and multidisciplinary teams.

🔎 The Role

You will help deliver buildable, coordinated mechanical designs, balancing technical performance, energy use and project requirements.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Develop mechanical building services design solutions across project stages

• Clarify project briefs, operating requirements and design constraints

• Prepare or check heating, cooling and ventilation calculations

• Support equipment selection, schedules and technical specifications

• Coordinate plant space, routes and interfaces with electrical, public health, architectural and structural teams

• Manage assigned deliverables and design changes against agreed programmes

• Support design reviews, client meetings, site queries and surveys where required

• Maintain clear design records and support less-experienced colleagues where appropriate

👤 What we are looking for

• Mechanical building services design experience

• Strong HVAC, heating, cooling and ventilation design knowledge

• Experience producing calculations, specifications and coordinated drawing packages

• Degree, HNC or HND in Mechanical Engineering, Building Services or a related discipline

• Ability to explain technical assumptions and design decisions clearly

• Good multidisciplinary coordination and communication skills

• Experience working within a consultancy or building services design environment

⭐ Useful Experience

• Revit or AutoCAD coordination

• IES VE, Hevacomp or equivalent calculation/modelling tools

• Low-carbon systems, retrofit or energy-efficient design

• Commercial, education, healthcare or industrial building project exposure

• CIBSE or IMechE involvement

• Progress towards chartership

🎁 Why this role

• Varied mechanical building services design exposure

• Opportunity to develop within a specialist engineering environment

• Good fit for an Intermediate Engineer ready to step up or an early Senior Engineer

• Work on coordinated, practical designs with real project impact

📩 If this sounds like a good fit, please apply or get in touch for a confidential discussion.