A Little About Us: ZAP is a full-service engineering, design, and construction management firm servicing the oil & gas, heavy industrial, mining, and manufacturing sectors. From our Bethlehem, Pennsylvania office, we execute projects across North America spanning from California to Florida and Canada down to Mexico. Our projects range in size from simple engineering studies or maintenance repairs to full-scale design of large facilities. ZAP operates at a fast pace while providing a team-centric approach to our work.

About your role:

The Mechanical Design Supervisor leads the mechanical design team in the development of 3D heavy industrial plant models and detailed construction drawings, ensuring compliance with project specifications and industry standards. This role oversees the coordination between design disciplines, manages the quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) process, and ensures the accuracy of bills of materials and fabrication drawings. The Mechanical Design Supervisor also provides leadership, training, and mentorship to the design team, while collaborating with project managers to align project goals with design outputs.

Essential Duties and Major Responsibilities

• Oversee and review the creation of 3D heavy industrial plant models using P&ID drawings, ensuring adherence to project specifications and industry standards.
• Supervise the development and verification of 3D models derived from vendor drawings, ensuring accuracy and compliance with design criteria.
• Lead the coordination between design disciplines to create cohesive and complete models for piping, chutes, ducts, and related systems.
• Ensure the preparation and review of detailed construction drawings, reflecting the engineered design with precision and completeness.
• Direct the creation of piping isometric drawings and piping plans from 3D models, guaranteeing their alignment with project goals and client requirements.
• Manage the preparation and verification of bills of materials (BOM) generated from 3D models, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in procurement and fabrication processes.
• Supervise the creation of detailed fabrication drawings based on 3D models, providing clear, actionable designs for manufacturing teams.
• Lead quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) processes for all design deliverables, ensuring that all models and drawings meet project standards before release.
• Provide leadership and guidance to the mechanical design team, including training, mentoring, and performance evaluations to foster a productive and collaborative work environment.
• Collaborate with project managers and other stakeholders to ensure project timelines, budgets, and resources are aligned with design output and team capacity.
• Assist with other duties as assigned.

Education

• Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering or similar field is required.

Type of Experience Needed to be Successful

• 10 years of previous drafting or modeling experience utilizing AutoDesk products is required.
• 3 years of leadership experience is required.

Specialized Skills

• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication, with the ability to effectively convey complex technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Skilled in identifying, analyzing, and resolving complex engineering problems efficiently, while implementing effective long-term solutions.
• Proven leadership skills, with substantial experience leading teams or task forces on major projects, managing deliverables, timelines, and team performance.
• Advanced awareness of workflow and project tradeoffs to make decisions based on needs now and into the future.
• Must have a valid, active drivers license and ability to maintain a good driving record.
• Expert user of technology and software to execute daily tasks, including Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Outlook, and Excel.

Supervisory Expectations:

• The position supervises or manages the work of at least two full-time employees or the equivalent. The position includes decisions or recommendations regarding personnel actions such as hiring, disciplinary action, overtime, changes in pay and terminations.

Independence of Action

• Results are defined; the incumbent sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow. Although precedents may exist, manager provides broad guidance and overall direction.

Physical Demands and Work Environment: (The phrases occasionally," regularly, and frequently correspond to the following definitions: occasionally means up to 1/3 of working time, regularly means between 1/3 and 2/3 of working time, and frequently means 2/3 and more of working time.)

• The work environment is the typical office environment. The employee must complete their work satisfactorily in an environment where there are significant distractions, including staff, clients, and vendors walking through and conversing, telephones ringing, conversations carrying over, loud noises, and interruptions to answer questions from others. Must be able to drive to sites or meetings with clients. On sites, you run into the possibility of distractions from OSHA hazards, industrial materials, machinery & equipment, dangerous chemical substances, and interruptions requiring the employee to answer questions from others.
• The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. In many cases, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk or hear. The employee

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is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and should do so in a sound and safe manner. This jobs specific vision abilities include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Hours:

Core Competencies:

• Communications - Expresses ideas and thoughts verbally; expresses ideas and thoughts in written form; exhibits good listening and comprehension; keeps others adequately informed; selects and uses appropriate communication methods.
• Teamwork - Balances team and individual responsibilities; Puts success of team above own interests; Able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives; Supports everyones efforts to succeed. Focuses on solving conflict, not blaming; Maintains confidentiality; Listens to others without interrupting.
• Ethics - Treats people with respect; keeps commitments; inspires the trust of others; works with integrity and principles; upholds organizational values.
• Initiative - Volunteers readily; undertakes self-development activities; seeks increased responsibilities; takes independent actions and calculated risks; looks for and takes advantage of opportunities; asks for and offers help when needed.
• Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; looks for ways to improve and promote quality; applies feedback to improve performance; monitors own work to ensure quality.