Mechanical Engineer

Location: Charlottesville, VA, United States; Hybrid

Your Opportunity

In this role, you will apply buildings mechanical engineering principles and communication skills to deliver project excellence to the communities we live, work, and play in. You will collaborate with architects, civil, electrical, and structural engineers to closely coordinate design solutions and present these to our clients. Our team is looking for a Mechanical Engineer with a focus in HVAC and Plumbing design. You will work with direct supervision and general direction on tasks and smaller projects, and as a team member of larger projects under the guidance of a Senior Engineer/Designer. You will assist in evaluating, selecting, specifying, and engineering certain Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) building systems for a project verifying compliance with applicable codes and internal engineering standards / practices. You will work in in conjunction with the design team from conceptual design through construction documents on the design of several types of plumbing and industrial waste systems. Specific to the design of these systems the ideal candidate must be able to design, size, select, schedule, and specify HVAC and plumbing system components and equipment. You will perform a variety of tasks which may include Revit modeling, preparing design drawings, performing system calculations, ductwork design, piping design, specifying equipment, field survey work, and construction administration.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Apply mechanical engineering skills, experience and knowledge to the design and oversight of the design, for building projects.
• Acquire assigned workflow to produce the design documentation, drawings, and calculations required for mechanical engineering projects.
• Sharing knowledge with others by serving as a resource.
• Meets technical, contractual, schedule, budgetary and client service objectives for each project.
• Develops project related client presentations.
• Maintains and expands current knowledge of technologies and trends, as they apply to the applicable project and market types and continually strengthens skills.
• Attend client project meetings.
• Apply buildings engineering and project management knowledge to meet project requirements    within established time frames and budgets.
• Able to perform water, waste, gas calculations as well as product specifications.
• Coordinate and prepare schematic design, design development, and construction documents.
• Design plumbing systems including water, sanitary, storm, diesel distribution, and natural gas distribution systems.

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