12 Oct
AECOM
Chesterfield
Job description
Job Description
Our Electrical water engineering team supports clients with the management of their assets. This work can encompass everything from designing complete new build treatments works through to assessing the condition of existing plant and machinery.
They play an important role in helping our clients develop new assets or improvements to existing, offering both improved performance and efficiency.
We will pair you with an experienced engineer who will guide and mentor you through your initial period working on live projects.
Here's what you'll help with :
- Production of cable calculations, cable schedules, and circuit schedules
- Production of lighting designs
- Production of MCC / Control Panel details including ICA information
- Production of electrical specification documents
- Utilise Amtech, Dialux and Lighting Reality software design programmes
- Liaise with internal and external design teams, clients and contractors as appropriate
- Provision of timely reporting to both the client and internal team lead.
Our Mechanical water engineers examine the hydraulics of systems to calculate and specify pump systems, as well as developing plant room layouts.
They ensure designs meet the required performance also providing suitable access for operators so that the equipment can be safely maintained, and develop performance specifications and schedules to define all items of equipment, whilst ensuring that they comply with the relevant client and industry standards.
They also initiate control philosophies to define how a plant will operate, before collaborating with the other designers.
The successful applicants will work closely with other design disciplines and stakeholders,
to ensure that the design elements interface correctly, and the design fits all parties requirements.
Here’s what you’ll help with :
- Pumping calculations and specifications.
- Production of system schematics.
- Production of equipment and drive schedules;
- Production of engineering specification documents in relation to hydraulics and pump systems;
- Working with our clients to assist them with project delivery, asset and network performance and design;
- Production of lifting, access and maintenance plans.
- Liaise with internal and external design teams, clients and contractors as appropriate;
- Provision of timely reporting to both the client and internal team lead.
Enjoy the Perks.
At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being,
customised to fit your lifestyle.
Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.
Here is what you will get from us!
On the job support and learning
When an apprentice starts at AECOM, we pair them with a senior member of the team who will guide and mentor them through their initial period working on live projects and business development tasks, to support with any technical queries.
We also offer our apprentices the flexibility of working on a range of projects in the various service offerings and technical specialisms that our Practice delivers.
This helps establish their areas of interest,
and develops a firm sustainability grounding, that will allow our apprentice to choose the direction of their career.
Apprentice Development Programme
In addition to your identified external training provision in Civil Engineering Technician (Level 3) (usually delivered via day release or in block terms) our Apprentice ADVANCE programme is designed to help you build your career in AECOM.
You will attend a number of instructor-led training sessions where you will meet and hear from people across the business and take part in a series of interactive activities to equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in your role.
We will provide you with all the support and tools you need to achieve your professional development ambitions,
including Chartership with the relevant international professional institution.
Professional institute qualifications you may be able to work towards include EngTech then IEng acrreditation with ICE.
Qualifications
This position is ideally suited to school leavers at GCSE or A-Level (or equivalent) who can demonstrate the following :
- Minimum of 5 GCSE’s (or equivalent) at grade C / 4’ or above, including Mathematics & English
- Three A-Levels (or equivalent such as a BTEC Level 3 inMechanical or Electrical Engineering) including Maths and a physical science at grade 'C' or above - essential for level 6 Degree Apprenticeship
- Some work experience or shadowing in an engineering environment would be an advantage
- Demonstrate an interest and a desire to pursue a career in Traffic Engineering
- Show an aptitude towards software-based engineering and drawing e.g. Computer Aided Design (CAD) and other similar 3D software
- Commitment to continued education and improvement through on-the-job learning and training opportunities.
- Creative, practical, adaptable and enthusiastic
- Ability to demonstrate attention to detail
- Ability to think in a methodical way to design, plan and organize parts of projects
- English language proficient, holding excellent communication skills to present information in speech, drawings and reports
Additional Information
About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management.
On projects spanning transportation,
buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges.
Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.
AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office,
remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families.
We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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