Sr. Refrigeration Designer

LHH Recruitment Solutions has an opening for a Senior Refrigeration Design Engineer for our client in the Phoenix, AZ area. This direct hire role allows you to expand your engineering career within a fast-paced engineering and architectural firm in the commercial construction industry. This on-site position requires a minimum of 5 years of current experience in a commercial refrigeration design role, and candidates must have a strong background with load calculations and CO2 Transcritical systems in a commercial capacity.

Salary range: $110-140k annually. This range is provided by LHH. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

• Evaluate whole commercial refrigeration systems (primarily parallel compression "racks") for condition, capacity, and efficiency.
• Survey existing systems, maintain pertinent system architecture information, model numbers, condition, etc.
• Perform refrigeration load calculations as needed.
• Arrange loads on appropriate compressor suction groups as needed.
• Calculate compressor and condenser capacity and select new equipment as needed/required.
• Understand alternate system types and be able to specify such as condensing units, distributed systems, secondary pumped systems.
• Be willing and able to learn about new system types such as CO2 Transcritical systems.
• Generate refrigeration designs in compliance with all applicable local and state codes.
• Generate refrigeration designs in compliance with owner specifications and design guidelines.

• Bachelor’s degree in architectural engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in commercial refrigeration design.
• Current working knowledge of discipline specific codes and other building codes.
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good leadership skills to educate client.
• Meet with the project team to discuss the schedule, budget, phasing, site issues, and design review issues.
• Review preliminary and final design with other disciplines for function, clearances and coordination.
• Client contact.
• Perform quality assurance on projects in coordination with technical manager or project engineer.
• Set high standards, professional integrity and seek the interests of the company and client.
• Ability to meet fast-paced deadlines.
• Demonstrate exceptional leadership skills, utilization of situational leadership, servant leadership and the creation of a vision for the department.
• Proven management and leadership skills.
• Proven knowledge of engineering calculations, layout, and design of Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Fire Protection and Structural/Architectural.
• Experience in collaboration with mechanical, structural, electrical, instrumentation, HVAC, Geotech, survey, etc. internally and externally.
• Proven proficiency in using CAD programs – Revit, AutoCAD.

• Seniority level:
  Mid-Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Engineering and Design
• Industries:
  Building Construction, Design Services, and Architecture and Planning