About the position
The Buildings & Places Business Group provides building-focused architectural and engineering services to a variety of commercial, industrial, and institutional clients. We provide analysis, evaluation, plans, and design for facility projects that involve rehabilitation, expansion and new construction. We provide full A/E services to clients in the Pharmaceutical, Transportation, Federal, Civic, Power, Water, and Industrial markets. We are seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer (HVAC) in our Raleigh NC office. Candidate will be responsible for designing heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems; plumbing systems. Relevant experience may include LiDAR scanning and point cloud integration to BIM; REVIT family creation; systems design and applications; economic evaluations; life-cycle cost analyses; equipment selection; specifications authorship; construction estimating; construction administration; and commissioning of mechanical systems. Projects involve pharmaceutical, public works, mass transit, commercial, educational, and federal facilities. Experience with supervising employees and sustainability certifications are a plus. As a Mechanical Engineer at Gannett Fleming, you will be providing technical support on design aspects on assigned projects. The successful candidate must demonstrate creativity, foresight and mature engineering judgment in anticipating and solving problems.
Responsibilities
- Design of building HVAC, plumbing, fire protection systems including calculations, layouts, sizing, equipment selections, specifications and coordination.
- Mentoring junior staff
- Lead and participate in meetings with clients, state agencies, city agencies, utility service representatives and project teams.
- Deliver projects on time and within client budgets
- Deliver projects in compliance with client and company quality control procedures and engineering guidelines
- Daily interaction and collaboration on cross-functional teams across multiple disciplines
- Document work product in REVIT
- Construction administration services; on-site construction administration, shop drawing review, request for information response, as well as client meetings and coordination
- Perform site visits, surveys/inspections to evaluate existing building mechanical systems
- Participates in marketing efforts
- Project and Task Management
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or Architectural Engineering with mechanical focus
- Licensed Professional engineer
- 5+ years of relevant experience in the design of HVAC, Plumbing, and Fire Protection Systems
- HVAC design skills including heating and cooling load and equipment performance calculation routines and systems' documentation and familiarity with ASHRAE Guidelines
- Plumbing design skills including water supply and drainage systems piping layouts and familiarity with ASPE Guidelines
- Knowledge of applicable codes
- General knowledge base for Building Design and Building Services Coordination, mechanical systems layout within REVIT
- Integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows in Mechanical system design
- Proficient in the use of Office 365 applications
- Excellent writing, oral communication, and presentation skills
- Effective interpersonal communications skills, a team-oriented disposition and work style
- Personal inclination to learn and grow via internal training, external training and senior staff mentorship
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with supervising employees
- Sustainability certifications
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- 401(k) savings plan
- Incentive compensation for eligible positions
- Tuition reimbursement
- Access to internal and external training programs
- Support for active participation in professional organizations
