Mechanical Engineer, HVAC

The buildings that make up the landscape of our daily lives seem like permanent fixtures, fastened to a time and place. But what if that didn’t have to be true? What if our built environment — where we live, learn, play, and conduct business — carried us forward instead?

Our Buildings practice keeps people at its heart, recognizing that our shared journey forward is shaped by the meaningful and responsive places we design. From iconic designs to monumental groundbreakings, join us to bring transformational building solutions to life. Every day we apply our expertise, creativity, and passion to propel communities into the future—join us!

Your Opportunity

Stantec is hiring a Project Lead Mechanical Engineer (HVAC) to join our team in Philadelphia, PA. Your role as a contributor on our professional consulting team is to work independently on projects of high complexity and serve as a leader of a team or project through all phases of a project lifecycle.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Work independently with a team of design colleagues to conceptualize and develop full documentation for new construction and renovation projects for multiple types of facilities such as\: healthcare, commercial offices, higher education, research laboratory or similar applications.
• Participate in client contact on projects to establish design criteria, review design progress as well as supporting through construction administration.
• Evaluates, selects, specifies, and engineers all mechanical engineered systems or products for a project.
• Engages in the development of a design through sketches, electronic models, diagrams, and other visual formats.
• Utilizes BIM technologies in development of three-dimensional models of building’s mechanical systems and provides markups and direction for production support (junior engineers/designers).
• Prepares and revises documentation in various mechanical phases including site plans, floor plans, diagrams, and details.
• Leads project coordination meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor, sub-contractors, and vendors.
• Supports the preparation and coordination of the project specifications with construction documents.
• Conducts quality assurance and quality control on own projects and projects of peers.
• Assists in the development of new standards and specifications for the mechanical group.
• Works on multiple projects.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Group Leader and/or Engineering Discipline Leader such as supporting new project proposals by developing scope, design budgets and design approach for potential projects.
• Conducts field surveys of existing conditions of building spaces.
• Prepares field reports and punch lists.