Senior Mechanical Project Engineer

B&H Engineers, Inc. is seeking a Senior Mechanical Project Engineer to lead the delivery of mechanical systems design across the firm's commercial, healthcare, hospitality, and institutional portfolio. This is a senior role for an engineer who has moved past production work and is prepared to own outcomes: the technical quality of the design, the schedule it is delivered against, and the client relationship that surrounds it.

The position carries responsibility for project oversight from concept through construction administration, direct client interaction on production and delivery matters, and the development of the mechanical staff who support each project. The successful candidate is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas with at least fifteen years of consulting engineering experience in building systems design.

B&H is a firm of fewer than thirty people. The engineer in this role will have visible influence over how projects are run and how the mechanical group grows.

Reports To

Vice President of Mechanical Engineering

Direct Reports

Mechanical engineers and designers assigned by project

Coordinates With

Electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and technology discipline leads;
Construction Administration Manager;
Contracts Administration

Dallas, Texas office, with site visits across the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex

• Serve as engineer of record for assigned mechanical scopes, sealing drawings and calculations under a Texas Professional Engineer license.
• Own the mechanical delivery schedule for assigned projects, including milestone commitments, internal production planning, and coordination with the firm's resource forecast.
• Establish the design approach and basis of design at project outset and hold the team to it through each deliverable phase.
• Review and approve all mechanical deliverables prior to issue, including drawings, calculations, specifications, and design narratives.
• Identify scope changes as they arise and initiate additional service requests through the appropriate channel before the work proceeds.
• Monitor project labor against the fee budget and report forecast versus actual variance on the firm's reporting cycle.

• Serve as the primary technical contact for the owner, architect, and consultant team on assigned projects.
• Lead design review meetings and present mechanical concepts, alternatives, and cost implications directly to clients.
• Communicate schedule status, deliverable readiness, and known risks to the client before they become issues.
• Resolve production and coordination conflicts with the architect and other disciplines without escalation wherever possible.
• Maintain client relationships that generate repeat work, and contribute technical content to proposals and project interviews.

• Design HVAC systems including air distribution, hydronic systems, central utility plants, chilled water and heating water distribution, and specialty ventilation.
• Perform and review load calculations, energy modeling inputs, equipment selections, duct and pipe sizing, and pressure loss calculations.
• Conduct code research and confirm compliance with the International Mechanical Code, International Energy Conservation Code, ASHRAE standards, NFPA requirements, and applicable Texas and local amendments.
• Write and review mechanical specifications.
• Provide plumbing and fire protection design oversight where project scope requires an integrated MEP approach.

• Review shop drawings and submittals and issue review actions in accordance with firm standards.
• Respond to requests for information with clear, scope bounded answers.
• Conduct site observation…