Refrigeration Engineer or Designer

Refrigeration Engineer Or Designer

As a Refrigeration Engineer Or Designer at Cushing Terrell, you will design and deliver commercial refrigeration systems for national retail clients across grocery stores, distribution centers, and fuel centers. This is a fully on-site role based in Boise, Missoula, Minneapolis or Austin, depending on your location. From day one you will manage a project load of roughly 20 active projects in various phases, working across standard DX systems, centralized and distributed refrigeration, and advanced transcritical CO2 (TCCO2) systems.

You are not specifying single components for an equipment vendor. You are engineering the full system.

Day to day, you will assign work to your team of Engineer-in-Training staff, maintain project schedules, perform quality control, and ensure deliverables go out the door on time. Strong schedule and workload management is what separates success from struggle in this seat. Within 90 days you will be fully integrated into your assigned program, handling design, client communication, and planning. At one year, you will be running the group: knowing your team's capacity, balancing workloads, and driving the program without needing oversight.

This role offers real autonomy. You set your team's schedule, build relationships with major national retail accounts, and have the support of a skilled and stable team to grow alongside. Cushing Terrell brings a built training program, balanced workload, and quick-turnaround project cycles so you stay engaged without burning out. Work-life balance is a real part of how this team operates, not a tagline.

The expected salary range for this position is $70,000 to $90,000 annually.

Bachelor's degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering or a related field

5 to 10 years of refrigeration design experience

In-depth knowledge of refrigeration systems including standard DX, centralized, distributed, CO2, and advanced hybrid systems

Experience developing fees, creating scopes of work, and managing multiple resources to deliver projects on budget and on schedule

Intermediate proficiency in AutoCAD or Autodesk MEP Revit (Revit preferred); familiarity with Bluebeam and Microsoft Office

Ability to lead design teams and manage design efforts for program-level accounts

Strong client communication skills and quality control discipline

Licensed Professional Engineer (PE), or ability to obtain licensure by comity in the state of the hiring Cushing Terrell office

Experience with transcritical CO2 (TCCO2), secondary overfeed CO2, propane, or A2L refrigerant systems

Proficiency in Autodesk MEP Revit specifically

Lead full-system commercial refrigeration design from schematic concept through construction documents for retail clients including grocery stores, distribution centers, and fuel centers

Consult directly with clients to define functional requirements, develop project scopes, estimate costs and construction timelines, and maintain relationships through project delivery

Assign and manage work across a team of EIT staff, balancing workloads across a portfolio of roughly 20 active projects in various design phases

Collaborate across disciplines to integrate refrigeration systems into broader building designs and produce coordinated drawings for contractor use

Select equipment, prepare specifications, and apply applicable codes and jurisdictional requirements to all deliverables

Conduct site visits and lead team meetings to support project progress, EIT development, and client relationship management

Perform engineering studies and prepare reports as required by project scope

Cushing Terrell is a multidisciplinary design firm with 17 offices and more than 500 team members who bring together their expertise to deliver holistic built environments. Leveraging our influence as designers, we work to create sustainable systems and spaces that help people live their best lives.

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