Principal Mechanical Engineer - Thermal Infrastructure

Job Description

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 50 locations and 2,000 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors is our people. At Dewberry, we seek exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of service to our clients. Whether you are an experienced professional or a recent graduate, you will have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from personal integrity and our “Dewberry at Work” values, honesty, passion, contribution, individualism, and perseverance, which have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

Dewberry’s vibrant Raleigh, NC office includes over 200 design professionals, including a growing Thermal Infrastructure group focused on providing assessments, master-planning, and design services for campuses primarily across North Carolina and Virginia. Our thermal infrastructure experience includes the design of a variety of thermal distribution systems, campus master planning, condition assessments, central utility plant design, district heating plant design, and building conversions for steam, heating hot water, and chilled water systems. Raleigh’s MEP group contains subject matter experts, regularly attending and presenting at ASHE conferences. Our repeat clients include some of the largest campuses in the region. The Raleigh office has other focused MEPS design groups serving healthcare, higher education, K-12 schools, infrastructure clients, and more.

Because our backlog continues to grow, we are seeking a Principal Mechanical Engineer to join our Raleigh, NC office’s existing Thermal Infrastructure department. As a principal mechanical engineer, you will be responsible for the design of thermal infrastructure systems. You will collaborate with a team of engineers on a variety of thermal infrastructure projects. In addition to collaborating with mechanical engineers, you will team with structural, civil, electrical, and other disciplines to provide full-range services to our clients.

Responsibilities

Provide high-level direction to senior mechanical engineering staff to allow the Business Unit/Office to effectively operate and successfully complete thermal infrastructure projects:

• Office Operations: Supervise all mechanical discipline managers within an office or business unit for successful intra-office operations, by actively helping those department managers that report to you smoothly run their departments.
• Service Line Operations: Assist the Chief Engineer leading MEPS Service Line’s mechanical community of practice to ensure successful inter-office operations, by actively participating in the community of practice events and performing delegated tasks from the Chief Engineer.
• Quality Management: Ensure mechanical discipline managers are consistently applying and complying with corporate quality management processes and procedures.
• Technical Management: Ensure mechanical discipline managers provide timely and adequate guidance and quality oversight, including code review, of all project work involving electrical engineering.
• Staff Development Oversight: Ensure mechanical discipline managers are providing adequate technical training and development of staff by providing guidance and mentoring of managers.
• Standards Development Oversight: Ensure mechanical discipline managers are establishing and improving standards, practices, guidelines, and specifications. Principal shall lead the development of their office mechanical standards and coordinate those standards through the Chief Engineer across offices.
• Engineer of Record on select projects as needed.
• Provide 'on-the-spot' advice and decisions - technical and cost estimates. Principal engineer is the top mechanical technical leader in an office unless mechanical issues involves other offices in the service line then the Chief Engineer presides.
• Coordinates with client/project managers and department managers within an office to resolve mechanical engineering conflicts.
• Office Organizational Management: Assist Office/Business Unit Manager to ensure successful office operations, including advice on staff organizational structure and office procedures.

Required Skills & Required Experience

Experience in the design of institutional, educational, healthcare, laboratory and military projects is desired. The candidate should have a proven history of solid design work, meeting project deadlines and budgets, and working well in a team environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related field.
• Professional Engineer’s license. Existing licensure in NC and/or VA is preferred.
• 25 years of technical experience in the design of thermal distribution systems, central utility plants, and/or building mechanical systems.
• Experience in AutoCAD, Civil3D, and/or drafting is a plus.
• Experience in pipe stress modeling is a plus.
• Self-motivated and well organized.
• Good verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.

Do not meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for our employees. So, if you are excited about this role, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

 *Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

 *Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.

Notice to Third Party Recruiters:  Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.

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