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Job description
Stantec is hiring a Mechanical Team Leader — a full-time, based in Plano, TX role. Apply directly on Stantec's careers page below.
Mechanical Team Leader
Location: Plano, TX, United States; Hybrid
Your Opportunity
Stantec’s is seeking a highly motivated Senior Mechanical Engineer / Team Leader to join our growing, multidisciplinary Buildings team.
If you are an experienced leader, strong communicator, and skilled problem-solver with a high level of attention to detail, we have an opportunity for you to make an impact on a team committed to delivering innovative, high-quality building designs.
In this role, you will draw on your strong technical knowledge, leadership capabilities, and extensive industry experience to lead the mechanical engineering team and deliver projects of varying scales and complexity. You will serve as both a technical leader and people manager while collaborating closely with multidisciplinary design teams, clients, contractors, and other project stakeholders.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the Mechanical Engineering Team Lead, managing team workload, project assignments, staffing needs, and overall resource planning.
- Conduct staff performance reviews and actively support employee career development and professional growth.
- Mentor and develop junior and intermediate design staff through project work, technical guidance, training, and coaching.
- Effectively delegate work to engineering and production support staff.
- Develop project scopes, budgets, schedules, staffing plans, and design approaches for projects of varying sizes and complexity.
- Work within established project budgets and schedules to help project teams achieve financial, quality, and delivery objectives.
- Serve as the mechanical engineer and technical design expert on assigned projects.
- Perform field investigations and apply advanced mechanical engineering knowledge to develop solutions to complex engineering challenges.
- Prepare and support project deliverables including basis-of-design narratives, engineering calculations, cost estimates, drawing documentation, system designs, and technical specifications.
- Lead the design and selection of HVAC and other mechanical building systems.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary design teams, clients, building officials, contractors, manufacturers, and other project stakeholders.
- Communicate with manufacturers and contractors to resolve technical challenges and develop practical, constructible solutions.
- Perform construction site observation visits and review and respond to project submittals, RFIs, and other construction-phase documentation.
- Develop contract documents that meet applicable codes, client requirements, project standards, and Stantec quality assurance requirements.
- Identify and resolve design conflicts and technical questions while providing recommendations that improve project outcomes.
- Serve as a quality control reviewer and participate in project peer reviews.
- Support the continued growth, technical excellence, and operational performance of the mechanical engineering team.
- Travel occasionally as required, approximately 10%.
About Us
Stantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.
Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.
Join us and design your place with Stantec.
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Frequently asked questions
What skills are required for Mechanical Team Leader at Stantec?
The required skills for Mechanical Team Leader at Stantec include: HVAC, Mechanical Engineering, Project Management.
What is the seniority level for Mechanical Team Leader at Stantec?
Mechanical Team Leader at Stantec is a Senior / Manager level position.
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