Principal Mechanical Engineer (Building Services)
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Due to continued growth, we are looking for an experienced Principal Mechanical Engineer to help lead and grow the Building Services team in Sydney.
This role presents a unique opportunity to join our national Building Engineering team, delivering iconic projects across ANZ and across a variety of market sectors, while still having a focus on growing and developing the local team in Sydney.
How you’ll make a difference
- Lead the delivery of complex, multi-disciplinary projects across sectors such as health, defence, transport, commercial, aviation, data-centre or other major building sectors around NSW/ACT.
- Lead mechanical and multidiscipline building services design and end-to-end project delivery, including oversight of technical quality, coordination and design management across other disciplines such as electrical, fire protection and hydraulics.
- Actively build and maintain strong client relationships to support business development and further secure a robust pipeline of future work.
- Collaborate effectively within multi-disciplinary engineering teams, applying deep technical expertise to drive quality outcomes through rigorous review of design calculations, specifications, models and drawings, ensuring best-practice documentation and coordinated project outputs.
- Provide coaching and mentoring to junior and intermediate engineers, contributing to their technical development and supporting high-quality design documentation and project delivery.
The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes, you could still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply, all applications will be considered.
The qualities that help you thrive
- Ideally, 10+ years’ experience in building services consultancy or contracting design with a strong mechanical engineering background. Furthermore, Chartered status (CPEng) essential, other registrations highly regarded
- Demonstrated experience in technical design and multi-disciplinary project delivery
- Deep knowledge of building services systems, standards and best-practice design, with the ability to guide clients, mentor junior engineers and provide technical direction across complex project environments.
- Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, lead multidiscipline bids for building engineering projects, and collaborate effectively with senior leaders to support business development and operational performance.
- Proven track record of enhancing long-term client relationships and working across key sectors such as data centres, commercial, aviation, defence or broader building markets.
- Strong communicator and leader with a passion for growing teams, coaching emerging engineers and driving quality, innovation and continuous improvement within the building services team.