Mechanical Engineer
Location: Cedar Rapids, IA and/or Madison, WI
Position Type: In-Person/ Full-Time
Position: Mechanical Engineer position involved with the investigation, design, and construction of building heating, ventilating, air-conditioning (HVAC), plumbing, and fire protection systems.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Attend meetings and communicate with clients to establish their needs and discuss design issues with them.
- Lead mechanical systems design including fire suppression, plumbing and HVAC systems.
- Perform and/or direct calculations for HVAC loads, duct sizing, pipe sizing, ventilation requirements, etc.
- Provide direction to designers and BIM technicians for preparation of drawings detailing the design.
- Coordinate work with Clients and design team members of other disciplines.
- Create/prepare reports.
- Incorporate sustainable design methods.
Skills and Abilities needed for the position:
- Proactive, collaborative, tenacious and client focused.
- Self-directed and highly motivated with a strong work ethic.
- Voracious appetite for learning.
- Strong interest in other disciplines with the goal of developing integrated designs.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills – must be able to describe conceptual ideas verbally and in writing to others, architects, co-works, contractors, and vendors.
Education and Experience requirements:
- Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering
- Minimum 5 years’ experience as mechanical engineer in building system design.
Why Design Engineers?
Professionally, we’re large enough to give you the opportunity to work on award-winning, nationally recognized projects while advancing your career in a stable, growing company. Culturally, DE likes to support our proactive, collaborative, and tenacious talent by fostering a healthy work-life balance. Like we always say, we want you to work to live, not live to work. We value long-term relationships, and you’ll see this value reflected in how we treat our partners, clients, and the people we hire.