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Role: Mechanical Designer
Hours: 40 hours per week
Location: Coventry
At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for a Mechanical Designer to support the design and delivery of large-scale low-carbon energy systems, including heat pump installations, packaged plantrooms, and energy centres.
The role will focus on developing detailed mechanical designs for complex building services infrastructure, supporting decarbonisation projects across NHS, public sector, and commercial environments.
Role Responsibilities
1. Produce detailed mechanical designs for heat pump systems (ASHP, GSHP, water-source), energy centres, district heating systems, large-scale plantrooms, and packaged units
2. Develop and coordinate pipework layouts, plantroom arrangements, system schematics, and hydraulic designs including LTHW/CHW systems, thermal stores, and pumping arrangements
3. Generate GA drawings, fabrication drawings, isometrics, P&IDs, and schematic diagrams
4. Work closely with design engineers, project managers, and fabrication teams to ensure designs are buildable and aligned with project specifications, British Standards, and client requirements
5. Support value engineering, optimisation of plantroom layouts and system efficiency, and participate in design reviews, technical workshops, and site surveys
6. Follow all health and safety policies and procedures, report risks or deficiencies, and ensure proper use of PPE and equipment
7. Ensure compliance with information security procedures, identify and report risks, and escalate any suspected incidents
Required Qualifications
8. Proven experience in mechanical design within building services, energy, or M&E environments
9. Strong knowledge of heat pumps, low-carbon heating systems, plantroom design, and energy centre layouts
10. Good understanding of mechanical plant including pumps, PHEs, valves, pressurisation units, and associated infrastructure
11. Ability to interpret technical drawings, specifications, schematics, and experience with hydraulic design principles and system integration
12. Strong understanding of decarbonisation strategies and energy efficiency solutions
What's in it for you?
13. A place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day
14. Opportunity to work on large-scale decarbonisation and low-carbon energy projects across NHS, public sector, and commercial environments
15. Be part of a diverse, inclusive culture where everyone has a voice and is treated equally
16. Work with a trusted partner organisation delivering exceptional environments and adding value every day
Our Purpose and Culture
Delivering the exceptional, every day
Our purpose: our expertise, care, technology and insight create amazing work environments, helping our customers be exceptional every day.
Our promise to our people: a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day.
Our promise to our customers: a trusted partner creating exceptional environments for your customers and people, adding value every day.
Our culture – our core values and how we behave:
17. We are one Mitie: we work as one to deliver a seamless, unrivalled service
18. We are built on integrity and trust: we treat others as we would like to be treated and are proud to work for Mitie
19. We go the extra mile: keeping our promises and supporting colleagues and customers is in our DNA
20. Our diversity makes us stronger: everyone has a voice and is treated as an equal
21. Our customers' business is our business: we are a trusted partner delivering expertise and value
There's a place for you at Mitie — join us today!
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Pankaj Chaudhary at .