Senior Mechanical Project Engineer

EwingCole • Irvine, CA

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

EwingCole is a nationally recognized architecture, engineering, interior design and planning firm with offices across the country. Our multi-disciplinary practice is built on the core values of professional excellence, design quality and collaboration. We are looking for a Senior Mechanical Project Engineer to join our team in our Irvine office. The Senior Mechanical Project Engineer leverages extensive experience in the design of complex buildings to lead all phases of project design and construction. This role oversees project delivery, coordinates across disciplines, manages responsibilities across multiple complex projects, and ensures adherence to design intent, codes, and quality standards. The Senior Mechanical Project Engineer identifies potential risks or liability concerns in coordination with the Discipline Director and contributes to project planning efforts, including estimating hours for specific tasks and overall project scope. This position also provides mentorship and technical guidance to junior staff and project engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or Bachelor of Architectural Engineering
• Registered PE in at least one state with suitable credentials for registration in other states
• 10+ years of experience
• EwingCole currently utilizes Revit, AutoCAD, Bluebeam and the Microsoft Suite software to deliver projects
• Experience in engineering calculation software and equipment selection programs
• Engineering experience in one or more of EwingCole's project market sectors, Healthcare design experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Guiding the modeling and drawings used to accurately deliver projects, reviews key project decisions with Discipline leadership
• Applying an understanding of construction methods to building design
• Progressing project work from schematic design through construction documentation, ensuring design and production efforts are completed within the project schedule and budget
• Ensuring project designs and construction documents fully comply with applicable codes
• Promoting project quality through adherence to and the ongoing improvement of the company standards
• Conceiving projects with rigor to resolve energy and environmental impacts and meet sustainability goals
• Selecting equipment and identifying appropriate applications that consider system performance, lifecycle, and project requirement
• Managing the construction phase through responsive coordination with the builder to maintain design intent and contractual requirements, including field reviews, investigations, submittals, and oversight of mechanical system installation
• Determining and applying calculation and analysis models to evaluate engineering conditions and guide project design decisions
• Analyzing construction cost estimates for alignment of design intent and approved budgets and develops alternatives for controlling project costs
• Communicating engineering design intent, technical decisions, and system impacts effectively to clients, consultants, and project teams.
• Defining the design intent for material qualitative requirements and performance standards to ensure contractually enforceable and accurate representation of the mechanical system design
• Understanding the software analysis to ensure accuracy in the design and modeling of mechanical systems
• Initiating the design approach to distinctive solutions which consider the totality of a project
• Developing effective spatial configuration options through analysis of adjacencies, phasing and expansion
• Effectively managing fees, resources, and the project delivery schedule to ensure the financial health of a project, including management of discipline staff assignments, budgets, and workload across multiple projects

Benefits

• Generous paid time off
• 401(k) plan with company match
• tuition reimbursement
• flexible/hybrid work options
• paid parental leave
• excellent insurance offerings including medical, dental, vision, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, identity protection and more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior