Senior Mechanical Engineer

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AECOM Buildings + Places, is seeking a motivated and skilled Senior Mechanical Engineer to help lead buildings projects, especially light industrial projects such as water/waste-water treatment facilities. This position can be based out of Burnaby with opportunities for hybrid work. Some travel to nearby cities may be required. 

AECOM Buildings + Places Canada (B+P Canada) is a vibrant and growing fully integrated team spanning architecture, all the building’s engineering disciplines, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, economics and asset management for design and infrastructure projects. Project assignments may include, although not limited to: Transit and Municipal, Commercial, Institutional projects, Justice, Education and Government.  

Major Responsibilities: 

The responsibilities of this position include but are not limited to:

• Preparing deliverables and products such as calculations, drawings, specifications, and selections related to heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) and plumbing systems for commercial, institutional, and light industrial facilities.
• Performing field investigation for incorporating existing conditions into construction documents.
• Performing construction administration duties, such as shop drawing review, RFI response, construction inspection, and respond to client questions.
• Working within a project team environment and possessing good presentation and client interface skills.
• Coordinating work with other project disciplines.
• Working independently and making technical mechanical decisions based on building code, industry standards and company standard practice.
• Demonstrating creativity, foresight and mature judgment in anticipating and solving both routine and unusual project delivery, technical and client challenges, determining technical objectives and requirements, organizing programs and projects, and developing standards and guides for technical activities and applications.
• Staying abreast of industry standards and approaches, and best practices.
• Ensuring project work is undertaken is accordance with corporate health and safety policies and quality management systems. Mentoring junior staff.
• Performing assignments of limited scope and complexity. Uses a variety of standard engineering methods and techniques in solving problems.
• Assisting more senior level engineers in carrying out technical tasks requiring accuracy in calculations, completeness of data and adherence to prescribed analysis, design, or computation methods.
• Applying standard practices and techniques in specific situations. Gathers and correlates basic engineering data using established and well-defined procedures.

Minimum Requirements

In order to be considered for this position, candidates must meet the below requirement, at a very minimum: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering plus six (6) years’ experience designing HVAC and plumbing for commercial, institutional, and light industrial facilities, such as Water/Waste-water treatment plants
• Professional Engineer in British Columbia

Demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education may be considered. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Prefer 10 (ten) years’ experience designing HVAC and plumbing for commercial, institutional, and light industrial facilities, such as Water/Waste-water treatment plants
• Working experience with NBC, BCBC, BCPC, SMACNA, ASHRAE codes and standards
• Experience using HAP, AutoCAD, REVIT, Microsoft Office including Excel, Word, Project, and Power Point
• Experience with Building Energy Modeling and their software platforms (IES, eQuest, Energy Plus, HOT2000, RETScreen, etc.) would be considered an asset
• Experience with sustainability standards (LEED, Net Zero, Passive House, Envision) would be considered an asset
• Fire protection design experience 
• Familiarity with ISO quality management system
• Experience working within internal multidisciplinary teams
• Excellent written and verbal communications

• Company paid relocation is not available for this position
• Sponsorship for Canadian employment authorization is not available for this position
• Travel to nearby cities may be required

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.

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