Mechanical Design Engineer

• Mechanical, plumbing, and electrical design firm, in business since 2009, headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ.
• Projects across multiple sectors, with teams in Arizona, Texas, and Mexico.

The Design Engineer runs the project from the kickoff call through the last RFI.

• You own the scope, the schedule, the design direction, and the deliverables.
• You are the client's main point of contact for your discipline.
• You direct a designer or a small design team, review their sets, and develop their skills.
• You work with the Principal Engineer, who validates design direction and reviews every set before it goes out.
• The next step on this path is Team Lead, then senior roles.

• Review the scope of work and everything received in the proposal phase: drawings, emails, site photos, prior reports.
• Identify missing information early and build the questions and coordination items that go to the client.
• Confirm the scope matches the proposal, and notify the business development team of any fee or scope discrepancies.
• Complete the project start checklist with the full team, mechanical, plumbing, and electrical.
• Run the internal kickoff with your designers and the other discipline, then the kickoff call with the client.
• Review the preliminary schedule before the kickoff and adjust it after. If a milestone is not attainable, tell the client right away and offer alternatives.
• Set up project activities and milestones in our project management software and keep the scheduling team updated.
• Prepare additional service authorization descriptions and estimated hours, and submit them within 24 to 48 hours. Urgent requests go out the same day.
• Follow up with the client on schedule confirmation and outstanding information until you get an answer.

• Develop the initial design direction and give designers the information they need to start.
• Meet with the Principal Engineer to validate direction, and save the notes and recordings.
• Submit 35% design development for mechanical and plumbing. Bring electrical forward after the 50% milestone.
• Share the finalized direction with the design team and release them to work.
• Review progress sets: percentage complete, equipment specs, each system individually and as a whole, and the design checklists.
• Turn reviews around quickly enough that designers can pick up comments before the PE review.
• Coordinate PE review dates in the daily huddle and keep every review milestone on the schedule.
• Support your designers as the project requires, including drafting yourself when that is what gets it done.
• Keep the mechanical/plumbing and electrical schedules aligned so both disciplines finish together.

• Oversee coordination between designers and vendors, from first contact through documentation.
• Hold the team to the internal checklists. Sets do not reach the PE without them.
• Coordinate with outside disciplines, including architect, civil, and structural, and handle CAD and Revit disclosure forms when models are requested.
• Verify applicable building codes and local amendments, track code change dates against the submittal window, and contact plan reviewers when a requirement needs clarifying.
• Resolve Comcheck and energy compliance discrepancies with the city.
• Plan site visits: dates, contacts, roof and electrical room access, and marked-up backgrounds for whoever goes out.
• Send progress and final deliverables to the client with the narratives, comment responses, and project close-out complete.

• Review submittals within 3 to 5 business days.
• Answer RFIs within 24 to 48 hours.
• Delegate submittal and RFI reviews to experienced designers when you are confident in their work, then review before it…