Sr Project Engineer HVAC

ERDMAN • Madison, WI

100d

About The Position

The Senior Project Engineer, HVAC leads the design, analysis, and delivery of complex heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. The role ensures technical excellence, code compliance, energy efficiency, and alignment with client and project objectives. The engineer provides technical leadership, mentors engineering staff, coordinates with multidisciplinary teams, and serves as a trusted advisor throughout the project lifecycle, from planning and design through construction and commissioning. The position may also act as the Engineer of Record.

The role provides leadership in HVAC system design, selection, scheduling, sizing, and specification, applying appropriate industry and departmental practices. It collaborates with project team members to integrate HVAC systems with architecture and other engineered systems, meet milestones and deadlines, provide estimating guidance, ensure code compliance, and support purchasing and scheduling of HVAC equipment and systems.

Requirements

• Five to eight years of mechanical engineering design experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.
• Registered Professional Engineer (PE).
• Understanding of HVAC applications of heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid dynamics.
• Highly skilled in HVAC systems and equipment design and operations, with emphasis on healthcare facility applications.
• Advanced knowledge of building energy use, indoor environmental quality and sustainability, building materials, refrigerants, common HVAC systems and equipment, construction-document production procedures, building codes, and institutional requirements applied to healthcare and senior living.
• Capable of performing energy analysis and computer modeling of HVAC systems.
• Proficient with MS Office, Autodesk Revit MEP, AutoCAD, and Trane Trace 700.
• Knowledge and skills appropriate to the project phase and identified scope of work.
• Current awareness and understanding of relevant best practices, technologies, products and services, trends, and regulatory issues affecting the healthcare industry and related ERDMAN services.
• Adept at planning, coordinating, and controlling projects from beginning to completion.

Nice To Haves

• LEED AP Certification.
• EDAC Certification.
• ASHRAE Certified Healthcare Designer.

Responsibilities

• Lead and perform the design, selection, scheduling, sizing, and specification of HVAC systems using appropriate industry and departmental design practices.
• Collaborate with project team members to integrate HVAC systems with architecture and other engineered systems and meet project milestones and deadlines.
• Provide guidance with estimating and ensure applicable codes are met.
• Support purchasing and scheduling of HVAC equipment and systems.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineering staff.
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams and advise clients throughout planning, design, construction, and commissioning.
• Plan, coordinate, monitor, and control projects to meet client requirements and deliver functionally and financially viable projects.
• Use talent, budget, time, and materials effectively, and document project objectives and decisions.

What This Job Offers

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