Senior Mechanical Engineer/Designer - Project Manager

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

The Mechanical Building Designer draws on strong buildings engineering knowledge, performance base design approach, and industry experience to consistently produce project deliverables that meet project requirements, project manager and client expectations. Mechanical systems include but are not limited to HVAC, piping, plumbing, and medical gas systems.

Your Key Responsibilities

• With limited direction from a project manager and/or Professional Engineer, designs mechanical systems for the facilities within the built environment.
• Develops resilient and sustainable design systems for healing environments from concept phase through to post occupancy.
• Applies strong mechanical engineering skills and knowledge to produce accurate and timely deliverables.
• Develops and prepares design documentation in written and computer-aided design formats to meet project and client requirements.
• Prepares required calculations to meet project requirements.
• Prepares or assists in the preparation of opinions of probable costs.
• Shares knowledge with more junior designers by serving as a trainer and resource.
• Collaborates with project managers, engineers and other team members as part of a coordinated design team.
• Develops efficient and accurate solutions to design problems.
• Researches, prepares, and presents coordinated design options.
• Prepares key project deliverables for clients identifying the value and impact of sustainable design outcomes and strategically advising on appropriate design direction. This will include thinking critically about the platform (physical or digital) and form (written, graphical, or digital) of each of these deliverables and having the opportunity to develop the right communication strategy for the client or the project.
• Reviews drawings and researches code issues to comply with national, city, state, and county regulations.
• Often interacts with clients and project stakeholders.
• Communicates with manufacturers and contractors to address challenges and develop practical designs.
• Provides input on the creation and editing of technical specifications.
• Creates contract documents that meet required codes and quality assurance standards.
• Resolves design conflicts and questions and provides recommendations to address issues and add value.
• Understands and works within project budgets and schedules to help project manager meet project financial and schedule goals.
• Provides construction administration support such as reviewing contractor RFI’s, issuing field directives, performs construction observation and punch lists, reviews contractor change requests.