Arcadis
Principal Mechanical Engineer - Building Services
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Principal Mechanical Engineer – Places Design Practice
Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets, empowering over 36,000 professionals across 70+ countries.
About the Role
We’re seeking a Principal Mechanical Engineer with consultancy experience to join our Places Design Practice. In this influential role, you’ll design elegant, efficient, and high-impact mechanical solutions for a portfolio of high-value projects—supporting everything from smarter buildings to integrated infrastructure designs.
Our mission connects directly to people’s lives: designing safe, smart, and sustainable places where those who live, work, learn, and play thrive. Your expertise shapes everything from schools and hospitals to data centres, ensuring spaces respond to human needs while advancing sustainability.
About the Places Design Practice
Arcadis’ Places Design team creates the built environment people depend on. We deliver spatial strategies, daylight and solar analyses, landscaping, EV charging infrastructure, fire engineering, and, of course, mechanical engineering solutions. We combine data-driven insights with creativity to design spaces that are Versatile, Sustainable, Enjoyable, Attractive, Resilient, Healthy, Inclusive—the 8 values underpinning every deliverable.
Our practices focus on smart cities, urban regeneration, data centres, health, education, and corporate real estate. Your role sits at the heart of this: delivering reliable, future-focused engineering that elevates long-term value.
Role Accountabilities
Technical Leadership
- Lead mechanical design solutions for high-value, technically complex projects to produce efficient, low-carbon infrastructure;
- Collaborate cross-fit with other disciplines (e.g., electrical, civil, design teams) to ensuring holistic design coherence and alignment with client/solution objectives;
- Present innovative, technically sound proposals to clients and stakeholders, clearly communicating the expertise and integrity of Arcadis engineering.
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Project Management & Team Development
- Manage project teams (up to 10 people), directing contract staff, subcontractors, and internal engineers to deliver high-quality technical input;
- Provide mentorship through effective management, professional development guidance, and support for junior/hybrid team members;
- Oversee team performance—identifying issues proactively, fostering interdisciplinary teaming, and ensuring smooth, sustainable project execution.
Qualifications & Experience
Proven Expertise
We look for a Principals with a robust blend of technical excellence and consultancy nous:
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Degree/Pristine Credentials: BSc/BEng or MSc ME in Mechanical Engineering or Environmental Engineering;
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CEng Registration—evidence of qualified practitioner status with Chartered status or route qualification;
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Specialist Insight: Experience in Mechanical or Building Services Engineering, ideally within a consultancy environment, and:
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Antecedent engagement with mechanical assessments for research facilities, laboratories, or infrastructure projects;
Personal Attributes
- Consistently project confidence while demonstrating enthusiasm for technical collaboration;
- Cultural alignment with Arcadis: advocating sustainability and your part in delivering quality-of-life improvements;
- Ability to develop junior/mid-career engineers through technical and management mentorship;
- Proficiency in software tools such as AWS (Carrier washang), Excel, etc—with open-mindedness to new engineering platforms.
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Why Arcadis?
Career Impact
- Shape Tomorrow: Momentous work delivering sustainable solutions—regardless of your role, you are agent for real-world transformation.
- Flexible Flipside: Our Skills-Based Framework lets you negotiate how you structure your growth and engagement. Stack currencies across Impact and Customer dimensions.
Your Reward
- You’ll drive transformative places and projects that enhance people’s lives—positively impacting its quality.
- Impact reaches beyond your job title—your work tangibly benefits charity sectors, communities, and enterprises.
Inspire Together
“Together, we can craft a legacy.” Equitable and accessible doTERRA’s ethics ensure all employees feel their unique experience holds value. Joint working amplifies regulatory resilience, hence why Arcadis ranks consistently in the Top 20 Master Builders Global Best Employer surveys.
Commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Arcadis is deeply invested in ED&I: fostering environments where everyone thrives. Diversity of lived experience supercharges innovation and service excellence.
We champion from the ground up six ED&I workstreams—Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ & Race—because they foster collective ingenuity. We urgently address inclusion barriers at all levels.
You? You are everyone’s best self here. We prioritise compassionate accountability as you discover opportunities with us. Join us in driving sustainable change.
Join Arcadis. Create Legacy.
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