Mechanical Engineer in Training

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!

The Calgary office has a vibrant and dynamic environment with excellent opportunities for professional growth. We are a multidiscipline team working across the North in multiple sectors for a variety of clients. Our projects vary in size ranging from small commercial developments to light industrial, government, community and private sector facilities.

Your Opportunity

Your role as a contributor to our Buildings – Mechanical team is to work independently on projects of various sizes from small TI projects to medium sized projects. Depending on the size of the project, you will be responsible for completing the project on your own or will act as a project leader of a team through all phases of a project lifecycle. You will also have the opportunity to be involved in larger, highly complex capital projects. There will be opportunities to be involved in various types of projects including commercial, institutional, recreational, industrial, and health care projects. You will also be responsible for completing fee letters and project plans for small to medium sized projects and may also be involved with developing content for large integrated proposals for larger, complex projects. You will be expected to use your specialized knowledge of mechanical systems, means and methods, materials, and industry standards while mentoring junior member of the department and collaborating with team members to contribute to the final deliverables.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for small to medium projects of various complexity and assist senior Engineers on large projects.
• Evaluate, select, specify, and engineer all mechanical engineered systems or products for a project.
• Engage in the development of a design through sketches, digital models, diagrams, and other visual formats.
• Utilize BIM technologies in the development of three dimensional models of a building’s mechanical systems and provide markups and guidance for technologists and EITs.
• Prepare and revise documentation in various phases including site plans, floor plans, diagrams, and details.
• Lead project coordination meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor, sub-contractors, and vendors.
• Participate in client project requirement meetings, value analysis, and basic cost estimating.
• Lead the preparation and coordination of the project specifications with construction documents.
• Conduct field reviews of projects during construction to verify conformance with construction documents and provide letters of professional assurance to the applicable authorities having jurisdiction.
• Conduct quality assurance and quality control on own projects and projects of peers.
• Develop project scope, budgets, and design approach for small to medium size projects.
• Develop proposals for small to mid-size projects.
• Oversee and manage multiple projects.