Senior Engineer – Mechanical

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Provide senior technical guidance for design disciplines, ensuring quality, mentoring, and problem-solving across various projects.

• Utilize independent professional judgment to set technical direction.

• Conduct and oversee QA/QC processes and ensure work is both constructible and compliant with codes.

• Carry out HVAC load calculations, ventilation assessments, system sizing, psychrometric analysis, and equipment selections.

• Design and coordinate airside, hydronic, refrigeration, exhaust, ventilation, and associated HVAC systems.

• Create equipment schedules, control sequences, diagrams, details, specifications, and documentation for construction.

• Align mechanical systems with architectural, structural, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, controls, and equipment needs.

• Assess energy-code requirements, equipment efficiencies, outside-air needs, zoning, acoustics, maintainability, and constructability.

• Collaborate with controls vendors or design partners to coordinate BAS/control requirements and sequences.

• Define design criteria and technical strategies for complex projects, resolving technical and coordination challenges.

• Lead discipline QA/QC, including the review of calculations, drawings, specifications, and interdisciplinary coordination.

• Mentor engineers and designers, providing technical insights and feedback.

• Assist project managers with scope definition, fee development, staffing, risk identification, client communication, and change management.

• Represent the discipline in client meetings, design reviews, construction discussions, and interactions with authorities having jurisdiction.

• Achieve the target utilization rate of 75% net over designated measurement periods.

• Travel to document existing conditions, meet clients and project teams, conduct site observations, and complete punch-list tasks.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Architectural Engineering, or a related ABET-accredited engineering discipline.

• Typically requires 9+ years of relevant experience in mechanical building-systems design, consulting engineering, or a closely related field.

• Professional Engineer (PE) license is strongly preferred and generally expected for independent engineering leadership and sealing duties.

• Proven track record of technical leadership, QA/QC, mentoring, effective client communication, and successful execution of complex building-systems projects.

• Familiarity with mechanical codes, energy codes, ASHRAE standards, and standard HVAC design practices.

• Proficient in Autodesk Revit, Bluebeam, Microsoft 365, and relevant HVAC calculation software.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong organizational abilities, attention to detail, and capability to manage multiple priorities in a remote work environment.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, designers, project managers, architects, clients, contractors, and other stakeholders.

• Comfortable using electronic devices such as iPads for documenting existing conditions, field observations, and client notes.

• Capable, with or without reasonable accommodation, of safely climbing ladders and accessing roofs, mezzanines, equipment rooms, and similar areas as needed.

🏝️ Benefits

• Some travel is necessary for documenting existing conditions, attending client and project-team meetings, site observations, and completing punch-list activities.