Senior Mechanical Engineer

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 OpportunityYour role as a Senior Mechanical Engineer on our professional consulting services team is to work independently on large projects of high complexity, and as a leader of a team or project through all phases of a project lifecycle. You are responsible for developing and implementing an engineering discipline group equipped with up-to-date engineering and design tools and innovations, technical and supervisory capabilities and operating procedures to successfully and efficiently execute projects and consulting services resulting in client satisfaction and on-time delivery. Work consists of advanced mechanical design for the built environment including but not limited to HVAC, piping and plumbing, and the use of digital practice technology such as AutoCAD and Revit as well as mechanical engineering specific computer applications.Your Key ResponsibilitiesProject Involvement - approx. 90% of timeDesigns mechanical systems for the built environment as Engineer of Recored.Performs field investigations and analyzes existing conditions to develop comprehensive engineering solutions.Applies strong buildings mechanical engineering skills and knowledge to produce accurate and timely deliverables.Prepares required calculations to meet project requirements.Supports project requirements including basis-of design narratives, opinions-of-probable-costs estimates, drawing documentation, systems design and technical specifications.Collaborates with project managers and supporting design staff as part of a coordinated design team.Actively participates in the development of design staff through work on projects as well as serving as a trainer, mentor and resource for junior design staff.Handles design development and document preparation in written and computer-aided design formats.Effectively delegates work to production support staff.Researches, prepares, and presents coordinated design options.Reviews drawings and researches code issues to comply with national, city, state, and county regulations.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.Provides 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.Collaborates with the practice and market leaders to obtain and disseminate technical knowledge.May act as QC reviewer on projects and participates in project Peer Reviews.Learning/Maintaining and Expanding Technical Skills - approx. 4-5% of timeMaintains and expands current knowledge of technologies, trends and the markets in which we work as they apply to the applicable project types, and continually strengthens skills.Proactively pursues additional knowledge in related disciplines by attending available in house and external training.Studio and Firm meetings, initiatives, and projects - approx. 1% of timeAttends in-house project meetings.Actively participates in meetings, initiatives, and projects that support studio and firm-wide goals.