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Job Description
AECOM Kitchener office is seeking a motivated and skilled Senior Mechanical Engineer to support the design and construction of buildings within the Buildings + Places business line. You will work in a team environment with other engineers, technologists, BIM specialists, and project managers to deliver projects in this sector. You will also be a part of multidisciplinary project teams comprising of other engineering disciplines, consultants, and architects.
Major Responsibilities:
- Preparing deliverables and products such as presentation materials, calculations, drawings, specifications, selections, and cost estimates related to heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) and plumbing systems for commercial, institutional, and light industrial facilities.
- Performing field investigation for incorporating existing conditions into construction documents.
- Performing construction administration duties, such as shop drawing review, RFI response, construction inspection, and respond to client questions.
- Working within a project team environment and possessing good presentation and client interface skills.
- Coordinating work with other project disciplines.
- Working independently and making technical mechanical decisions based on building code interpretation and company standard practice.
- Demonstrating creativity, foresight and mature judgment in anticipating and solving both routine and unusual project delivery, technical and client challenges, determining technical objectives and requirements, organizing programs and projects, and developing standards and guides for technical activities and applications.
- Staying abreast of industry standards and approaches, and best practices.
- Ensuring project work is undertaken in accordance with corporate health and safety policies and quality management systems.
- Performing assignments of increased scope and complexity. Uses a variety of standard engineering methods and techniques in solving problems.
- Mentoring and reviewing intermediate and junior level engineer’s work; technical tasks requiring accuracy in calculations, completeness of data and adherence to prescribed analysis, design, or computation methods.
- Ability to manage large engineering based projects and assist in managing medium sized projects lead by architecture.
- Applying standard practices and techniques in specific situations.
- Gathers and correlates basic engineering data using established and well-defined procedures.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
- Minimum six (6)+ years’ experience (ideally with an engineering firm) designing HVAC and plumbing for commercial, institutional, and light industrial facilities.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prefer eight (8)+ years’ experience (ideally with an engineering firm) designing HVAC and plumbing for commercial, institutional, light industrial facilities, wast-water and water pumping stations.
- Prefer professionally licensed engineer.
- Working experience with codes and standards.
- Experience using HAP, AutoCAD, REVIT, Microsoft Office including Excel, Word, Project, and Power Point.
- Experience with Building Energy Modeling and their software platforms (IES, eQuest, Energy Plus, RETScreen, etc.) would be considered an asset.
- Experience with sustainability standards (LEED, Net Zero, Passive House, Envision) would be considered an assetFire protection design experience would be considered an asset
- Familiarity with ISO quality management systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communications.
- Experience working within internal multidisciplinary teams.
- Physically able to climb ladders and other mechanical equipment spaces.
- Proficient with MS Office Suite.
Additional Information
Relocation is available for this position.
Sponsorship is not available for this position.
About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
