Remote Mechanical Engineer; ME

Position: Remote Mechanical Engineer (ME)
Above Group Overview

We offer you the opportunity to put your passion and your God given talents and abilities to use. Our goal is to attract and develop skilled, called, and passionate people to impact our devoted customers and our team. We want to attract immensely creative employees with an ability to inspire, motivate, and challenge others.

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Our People Strategy

We believe in a people strategy to be the fundamental driver of our organization. While we can never reach a perfect organizational model, we can certainly strive towards it in our daily efforts and mission. With that vision comes a focus of key initiatives we are working on, listed here, with the indicators of what it should look like as we approach:

• Shared Direction: A collective understanding of what the organization stands for, where it is going, and how we will get there. Indicators: a clear inspiring vision, well-executed strategies, clear aligned goals.
• Authentic Values:
  Deeply held principles guiding all decisions and relationships and reflected in the conduct of everyone at all times. Indicators: high levels of trust and communications, uncompromising integrity and ethics, socially responsible practices.
• Productive Relationships:
  Open, collaborative relationships that recognize and honor the commitments that people make to themselves, each other, their work, and the organization. Indicators: respect for all individuals, effective problem solving and decision-making, clear accountability, effective teamwork at all levels.
• Liberating Processes:
  Flexible structures, processes, and technologies that allow people to do their best work and to collaborate effectively across boundaries. Indicators: clear organizational design, collective knowledge, the right tools and technologies, the right people for the right jobs.
• Outcome Learning:
  Results-focused learning that strengthens individual and organizational capacity to cope with the present and define the future. Indicators: continuous teaching and learning, effective knowledge and skills development, leadership development at all levels.
• Motivating Metrics:
  Fair, meaningful performance requirements, measure and rewards that reinforce high performance and manage poor performance. Indicators: clear and energizing performance requirements, relevant work measures, differentiated rewards.

Our Vision - What We Want to Do

Empower excellent AEC professionals to provide superior service.

Our Mission - Why We Exist

Demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ to those we reach.

Our Values - How We Will Accomplish This Mission

Our Core Values are the tools we use and the behaviors we exhibit as Employees of Above Group. They describe how we work together to achieve this special place we're developing and how they make us uniquely successful.

• Christian Values
• Initiative
• Ambassadorship
• Agency
• Extreme Team
• Buffalo
• Uncompromising Quality

Mechanical Engineer (ME)

The Position

The Mechanical Engineer for Above Group shall contribute and support HVAC, Plumbing, Fire Protection, Process, and Utility Engineering efforts for the firm. The ME shall be a graduated engineer from an ABET accredited institution who shall directly contribute to the Firm and its success through engineering and design efforts. The ME is also responsible for contributing to the growth of the team by leading and mentoring them in expanding their capabilities and contributions.

The ME shall execute engineering and design duties as required to ensure quality products.

• The ME is a Mechanical Engineer by education and experience:
  • Ability to combine personal judgment with project information and knowledge of codes and standards to implement design criteria.
  • Has expertise in fire protection, HVAC, mechanical, plumbing and utility systems. Knowledge and experience with hydronic systems a plus. Priority given to experience with healthcare facilities, central plant infrastructure (boiler systems, chilled water systems), and aerospace facilities
  • Experience with Carrier HAP, Trane Trace or eQuest. Knowledge of Microsoft Projects, AFT Arrow, Fathom, and Caesar is a plus. Knowledge of AFT Arrow and Fathom and Caesar also a plus.
  • Ability to work well in a team environment and as an individual. Communicates well with individuals in the organization.
  • Capable of interpreting information set forth in a Scope of Work, Basis of Design, field surveys and code research.
  • Project involvement:
    Engineer of record from concept phase, through construction documents and construction administration.
  • Directs and mentors subordinate staff of their responsibilities on a daily basis.
• The ME is a Mechanical Designer:
  • Experience with Psychrometric Chart, Ductulator, and Pipe Flow.
  • Designs layout of distribution systems and equipment locations in coordination with team members within the discipline, as well as project team members in other disciplines.
  • Proficient with design drawing software including Revit and AutoCAD. Proficiency in Creo Parametric is a plus.
  • Performs system calculations. Sizes…