Senior Mechanical Process Engineer

Jacobs Engineering Group - Bingham Farms, MI

Full-time - Senior

Bingham Farms, MI

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

At Jacobs Technology, Inc., we are seeking a Senior Mechanical Process Engineer who will play a pivotal role in transforming abstract ideas into tangible solutions. This position is available in our Bingham Farms, MI or Tullahoma, TN offices and is designed for a self-motivated professional with at least 15 years of progressive design experience. The successful candidate will lead and manage projects within a multi-discipline team, ensuring client satisfaction while delivering key projects within scope, budget, and schedule. In this role, you will be responsible for leading project teams to develop innovative designs for various process systems that support automotive and aerospace research and test facilities. You will take ownership of the technical schedule and budget performance of your assigned work, independently planning, scheduling, conducting, and coordinating engineering tasks. Your analytical skills will be crucial as you review results from assigned tasks and junior engineers, ensuring completeness and accuracy in documentation. You will also be tasked with developing technical reports and presentations for project management and clients, formally checking the work of others, and mentoring junior engineers. Collaboration with structural, machine design, controls, instrumentation, and aerodynamics/fluid dynamics engineers will be essential as you size and specify piping/ducting systems and components, including compressors, pumps, fans, valves, and fluid conditioning equipment. Your designs will encompass high-pressure cryogenic and pneumatic piping systems, high-temperature systems, refrigeration, vacuum, and fuel systems, as well as specialty HVAC systems. Working in a fast-paced environment, you will support project managers in ongoing design efforts, participate in internal and external meetings, and conduct fieldwork, which may include climbing test stands and working around machinery. This position requires occasional travel to support design reviews, factory acceptance testing, construction activities, and startup/commissioning activities at job sites.

Responsibilities

• Leading project teams to develop new designs for various process systems supporting automotive and aerospace research and test facilities.
• Taking ownership of the technical schedule and budget performance of the work assigned to them.
• Independently planning, scheduling, conducting, and coordinating engineering work through the selection and adaptation or modification of techniques, procedures, and criteria.
• Analyzing features of work and applying sound engineering principles and practices.
• Reviewing results from assigned tasks and from junior engineers and determining if results are complete, correct, and adequately documented.
• Developing technical reports and presentations for project management and clients.
• Formally checking the work of others for completeness.
• Leading and mentoring junior engineers.
• Working closely with structural, machine design, controls and instrumentation, and aerodynamics/fluid dynamics engineers.
• Sizing and specifying piping/ducting and piping/ducting components, selection of compressors, pumps, fans, valves, flow measurement, and fluid conditioning equipment.
• Designing high-pressure cryogenic and pneumatic piping systems, high-temperature systems, refrigeration, vacuum, and fuel systems, and specialty HVAC systems and components.
• Supporting Project Manager in ongoing design efforts.
• Participating in internal and external meetings and design reviews with team members and clients.
• Gathering information, interviewing stakeholders, making studies, performing calculations, and preparing rough layouts and sketches as required.
• Installation support and supervision: working with suppliers, subcontractors, and other trades from the office and project sites.
• Creating engineering calculations and specifications and overseeing the creation of engineering drawings.
• Traveling to support design reviews, attend factory acceptance testing of equipment, provide support for construction activities, and provide support for startup/commissioning activities at job sites.
• Participating in proposal development and supporting marketing activities.

Requirements

• B.S. Mechanical Engineering from an accredited engineering school.
• Minimum 15 years engineering experience or 12 years engineering experience and a MS degree from an accredited engineering school.
• Prior design experience with process systems including piping and thermal conditioning.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work collaboratively and independently.
• Ability to lead and work in a multi-discipline team environment is required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Knowledge and experience with common and unique process piping systems.
• Strong mechanical and process engineering analytical skills.
• Excellent oral and written communications, self-motivation, team-oriented work practices, strong technical problem solving, and strong organizational approach.
• High ethical values and strong commitment to self-development, teamwork, and desire to work in a collaborative environment.
• Experience with management of scope, schedule, and budget of individual projects.
• Knowledge of process systems and components including pumps, valves, heat exchangers, chillers, rotating machinery.
• Design experience including layout of process drawings and specifications.
• Site and field installation including troubleshooting experience and knowledge of process systems.
• Knowledge of ASME B31.1 and B31.3 and ASME B&PV Code.
• Knowledge of thermodynamics, fluid flow - compressible and incompressible, thermal sciences, and process systems.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in design and/or maintenance of mechanical process systems is preferred but not required.
• Software experience preference: AutoCAD, 3D software, AutoPipe, Caesar II, Mathcad, Creo, AFT.
• PE license preferred.

Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement possible for proven performers and depending on project responsibilities.
• Occasional overtime may be required to meet demanding project schedules.