What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mechanical Engineering Team Lead position at WSP?
**Company Overview**
About WSP USA:
We are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals dedicated to serving local communities. Our company is driven by inspiring the right people to be part of our future-focused business objectives.
Job Description:
We are currently initiating a search for a Lead Mechanical Engineer for our team. As a member of our Midwest District Transportation and Infrastructure team and Property and Buildings team, you will be involved in projects that meet our client's objectives and solve their challenges.
Your Impact:
- Provide oversight with collecting, compiling, and analyzing data from physical work sites, surveys, blueprints, schematics, data, technical drawings, computer-generated reports, and other matrices for project development, design, and construction.
- Apply high-level mechanical engineering techniques and processes to identify improvements involving more complex building and infrastructure engineering work including concept development, preliminary design, final design, procurement, construction, and operation.
- Perform professional mechanical engineering work and conduct comprehensive investigations and inspections of proposed and existing site conditions, equipment, resources, facilities, building, infrastructure, usage, and mechanical systems to determine conformance with applicable rules, standards, and construction or operating permits.
- Develop construction and installation plans, specifications, and cost estimates; preparing construction safety and phasing plans, and updating infrastructure layout plans that require coordination with owners, other disciplines, sub-consultants, and clients.
Responsibilities:
- Manage larger-scale mechanical engineering projects ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when.
- Prepare and oversee relevant project budgets, monitoring external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.
- Assist with engineering review of permit applications, mechanical engineering design plans and specifications, standby plans and engineering contracts, integrated waste management plans, and periodic construction inspections, to ensure that they comply with applicable state and/or federal regulations and sound engineering practice and standards.
Who You Are:
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Architectural Engineering.
- 7-10 years of relevant post education experience as a mechanical engineer.
- Engineer PE license required.
- Project experience submitted for consideration should include buildings on which you have actively participated in the project from the design phase through the final construction close-out.
- Interest in a wide range of market sectors such as healthcare, commercial, high-rise residential, transportation, aviation, retail, data center, etc.
- Proficient with mechanical engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, design/bid/build and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
Benefits:
We offer a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
