Senior CFD Engineer

Company Description

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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

AECOM is a major engineering consultancy based in central London, who help design and deliver high profile engineering projects both internationally and in the UK. We are expanding our team and looking for a talented Senior CFD Engineer to join us in our London office.

The CFD team provide specialist expertise on many of these projects, recently including work on the Rio Olympics, the Houses of Parliament and World Cup stadia. Through cutting-edge use of the latest CFD techniques and HPC technology, the team are expanding their capacity in helping architects and engineers create sustainable buildings and infrastructure, and are seeking a talented Senior Engineer with a background in CFD and strong problem solving skills to help drive this growth.

What you’ll do! 

Some of the areas you will work on include (but are not limited to):

• Pedestrian wind microclimate
• Pollution dispersal
• Water flow modelling (dam spillways, etc.)
• High speed rail aerodynamics
• HVAC performance
• Data Centre performance analysis (internal and external) 
• Tunnel ventilation
• Aircraft wake prediction
• Solar gain / stack effect / natural ventilation modelling
• Evaporative modelling
• Complex parametric geometries

Come grow with us:

And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized 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

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? 

Requirements:

• Master's degree in a field such as Aeronautical / Aerospace Engineering, Project Management experience / qualifications including Prince 2, experience in aerospace (e.g. motor sport) and defence sectors, and Aerodynamic team leadership experience.
• Experience in managing and producing thermal comfort studies (e.g. PMV), Lawson Wind Microclimate studies including 3rd party review, pollution dispersion analysis, single/multiphase hydrodynamics analysis, shading analysis, and presenting and delivering technical analysis to clients in fluent English.
• Strong knowledge and experience in Ansys CFX, ICEM, Rhino, Paraview, Grasshopper, Python, Excel, Linux, and HPC systems.
• Project delivery experience including UK and Middle Eastern clients, with technical and non-technical stakeholder engagement.
• Experience researching and implementing white paper research into working practices, writing fees and scopes of works for clients, managing and allocating budget within a working group / project.
• Creative design of bespoke mitigations and solutions for clients based on tested / simulated results with understanding and application of loss coefficients for porous media.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [email protected]

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you

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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. We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.