AECOM is seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Mechanical Engineering Senior Director to help grow and lead our Buildings &amp; Places engineering practice in Tampa, Florida. This is an exciting leadership opportunity for someone who thrives on building high-performing teams, shaping strategy, and making a real impact on innovative, multidisciplinary projects.You’ll take the lead on major pursuits, manage and expand a talented engineering team, and work directly with high-profile clients — including local, state, and federal agencies. If you’re passionate about sustainable design, cutting-edge HVAC systems, and want to help shape the future of high-performance buildings, we want to hear from you.Why Join Us?<ul><li>Leadership role — Build and lead your own team.</li><li>Work that matters — Design systems for complex, high-impact infrastructure.</li><li>Growth and visibility — Drive strategy, win major work, and grow with us.</li><li>Collaboration — Partner with leading experts across architecture and engineering disciplines.</li><li>Innovation — Help deliver projects that focus on innovation, efficiency, and energy performance.</li></ul>The responsibilities of this role include, but may not be limited to, the following:<ul><li>Lead and manage AECOM’s engineering operations in Tampa, with an emphasis on team growth and performance.</li><li>Manage forecasting, resource planning, and staff performance, including goal-setting and annual reviews for the mechanical department and other engineering managers. Assist the other building engineering discipline managers to do the same.</li><li>Oversee and grow the Mechanical Department, including mentoring staff and managing project delivery.</li><li>Develop and execute a strategy to build a thriving local MEP/FP team.</li><li>Guide team members in their work, assigning tasks and supporting their professional development.</li><li>Drive major project pursuits — both stand-alone MEP/FP work and as part of larger multi-discipline teams.</li><li>Represent AECOM to clients, participate in interviews, and help craft winning proposals.</li><li>Collaborate with other AECOM offices, regional engineering leads, and business lines to optimize project staffing and delivery.</li><li>Oversee HVAC design across a range of project sizes and complexities.</li><li>Act as technical leader and quality reviewer, ensuring consistent, high-caliber output.</li><li>Serve as design manager on complex projects with significant engineering scope, working closely with project managers to deliver high-quality documents.</li><li>Lead interdisciplinary quality reviews and ensure engineering standards are met.</li><li>Stay current with the latest trends, tools, and best practices in high-performance mechanical design.</li><li>Provides people and P&amp;L leadership for their department, division or client engagement. </li><li>Makes decisions and recommendations that are recognized as authoritative. Initiates and maintains extensive contacts with senior- level engineers within the company and with key engineering officials of other organizations and companies and is skilled in persuasion and negotiation of critical issues. </li><li>At this level, individuals will have demonstrated creativity, foresight, and mature engineering judgment in anticipating and solving both routine and unusual engineering problems, determining program objectives and requirements, organizing programs and projects, and developing standards and guides for diverse engineering activities. </li><li>Supervision received is essentially administrative with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.</li></ul>

AECOM is the world&rsquo;s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle &ndash; 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.

Mechanical Engineering Senior Director - Buildings & Places

AECOM is seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Mechanical&nbsp;Engineering Senior Director to help grow and lead our Buildings &amp; Places engineering practice in Tampa, Florida. This is an exciting leadership opportunity for someone who thrives on building high-performing teams, shaping strategy, and making a real impact on innovative, multidisciplinary projects.You’ll take the lead on major pursuits, manage and expand a talented engineering team, and work directly with high-profile clients — including local, state, and federal agencies. If you’re passionate about sustainable design, cutting-edge HVAC systems, and want to help shape the future of high-performance buildings, we want to hear from you.Why Join Us?<ul><li>Leadership role — Build and lead your own team.</li><li>Work that matters — Design systems for complex, high-impact infrastructure.</li><li>Growth and visibility — Drive strategy, win major work, and grow with us.</li><li>Collaboration — Partner with leading experts across architecture and engineering disciplines.</li><li>Innovation — Help deliver projects that focus on innovation, efficiency, and energy performance.</li></ul>The responsibilities of this role include, but may not be limited to, the following:<ul><li>Lead and manage AECOM’s engineering operations in Tampa, with an emphasis on team growth and performance.</li><li>Manage forecasting, resource planning, and staff performance, including goal-setting and annual reviews for the mechanical department and other engineering managers. Assist the other building engineering discipline managers to do the same.</li><li>Oversee and grow the Mechanical Department, including mentoring staff and managing project delivery.</li><li>Develop and execute a strategy to build a thriving local MEP/FP team.</li><li>Guide team members in their work, assigning tasks and supporting their professional development.</li><li>Drive major project pursuits — both stand-alone MEP/FP work and as part of larger multi-discipline teams.</li><li>Represent AECOM to clients, participate in interviews, and help craft winning proposals.</li><li>Collaborate with other AECOM offices, regional engineering leads, and business lines to optimize project staffing and delivery.</li><li>Oversee HVAC design across a range of project sizes and complexities.</li><li>Act as technical leader and quality reviewer, ensuring consistent, high-caliber output.</li><li>Serve as design manager on complex projects with significant engineering scope, working closely with project managers to deliver high-quality documents.</li><li>Lead interdisciplinary quality reviews and ensure engineering standards are met.</li><li>Stay current with the latest trends, tools, and best practices in high-performance mechanical design.</li><li>Provides people and P&amp;L leadership for their department, division or client engagement.&nbsp;</li><li>Makes decisions and recommendations that are recognized as authoritative. Initiates and maintains extensive contacts with senior- level engineers within the company and with key engineering officials of other organizations and companies and is skilled in persuasion and negotiation of critical issues.&nbsp;</li><li>At this level, individuals will have demonstrated creativity, foresight, and mature engineering judgment in anticipating and solving both routine and unusual engineering problems, determining program objectives and requirements, organizing programs and projects, and developing standards and guides for diverse engineering activities.&nbsp;</li><li>Supervision received is essentially administrative with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.</li></ul>

Mechanical Engineering Senior Director - Buildings & Places

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