Senior Mechanical Engineer​/Program Manager

Senior Mechanical Engineering Program Manager

Tetra Tech is adding a Senior Mechanical Engineering Program Manager to our Infrastructure Design Team. For this role, we are open to hybrid work schedules in our Bellevue or Seattle, WA offices.

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As a Senior Mechanical Engineering Program Manager in our Infrastructure Design Center, you will lead mechanical engineering and program-management efforts while driving business development. As Program Manager, you'll set technical direction and lead project teams on high-profile inland navigation locks, dams, pump stations, ports, fisheries, and other water-related projects. You will analyze and troubleshoot existing mechanical systems and develop drawings and specifications for hydraulic power units, gates, valves, bulkheads, pumps, piping, cranes, hoists, and related equipment.

Projects often involve hydroelectric facilities, dams, navigation locks, fish passage, flood control, and port infrastructure. Join our multidisciplinary team to lead signature infrastructure programs - shaping solutions and advancing your career.

The following duties are essential to this role. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.

• Lead business development efforts by identifying opportunities, assembling capture teams, leading proposal development, and supporting strategic marketing and client relationship activities.

• Direct project proposal development: defining technical approach, scope, schedule, staffing, and budgets.

• Manage program schedules, budgets, resource allocation, and project administration (reports, progress updates, cost tracking, invoicing).

• Provide senior technical leadership and final technical sign-off; resolve complex technical issues and act as the project technical point of contact.

• Oversee and approve engineering deliverables—drawings, calculations, specifications—to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with codes, standards, regulations, and company procedures.

• Lead mechanical equipment selection, sizing, and specifications to meet performance, technical, and budget requirements.

• Establish and enforce design quality-control processes and coordinate multi-discipline design integration (mechanical, electrical, structural, civil).

• Manage coordination with subconsultants, clients, permitting agencies, and other external stakeholders to advance project objectives.

• Provide day-to-day technical direction, assign tasks, monitor team performance, and deliver training; mentor and coach junior mechanical engineers.

• Promote and ensure adherence to company health, safety, and environmental policies across projects.

• Conduct site and client visits for design validation, coordination, commissioning, or troubleshooting; domestic and international travel as required.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.

• A minimum of 20 years of professional experience in mechanical engineering.

• Demonstrated experience in the design and analysis of mechanical equipment and systems for water resources and navigation structures (e.g., hydraulic power units, gates, valves, bulkheads, pumps, piping, cranes, hoists).

• Active Professional Engineer (PE) registration in Mechanical Engineering.

• Demonstrated business development experience: identifying opportunities, leading capture efforts, and proposal development.

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