Team Lead - Building Mechanical Engineer (Water)

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We are seeking Team Lead - Building Mechanical Engineers (Water) to join our team in Toronto, ON and Burnaby, BC. You will need strong people leadership skills coupled with exceptional design and analytical skills to plan, design and focus on HVAC, plumbing, and fire sprinkler systems. As a team lead, you will also be expected to manage several direct reports and support their growth and development, while ensuring that the group mandates are being achieved and technical excellent is being carried out on projects in your geography. The design skills you have will be applicable for water and wastewater treatment-related facilities, which typically feature process treatment buildings, but can also include administration and operations buildings, laboratories, maintenance buildings, or occasional assignments for other business units, including federal and military programs, industrial, and institutional projects.

You will support building mechanical design services of systems in areas of potable and non-potable water distribution, building and roof drainage systems, HVAC systems, fire protection and odor control assets as well as central hydronic plant design (boilers, chillers, cooling towers); and designing central utilities and process exhaust systems for manufacturing, lab, and office spaces. As a Senior in the team, you will also be expected to lead design teams to the successful delivery of projects, while ensuring the team's accountability and quality.

Typical duties will be a blend of technical and person leadership. As a team lead, you will be expected to engage with your direct reports on a regular basis and with your manager to ensure messaging is properly communicated up, down, and across. Strong communication and interpersonal skills are critical in this role. Your technical duties will include applying intensive and diversified knowledge of mechanical engineering principles and practices to technical writing, construction drawing and specification production for submission to clients and jurisdictional plan check; permitting shop drawing review; and responding to requests for information during construction. Engineered systems include, but are not limited to, package systems, central plants, air distribution, hydronic systems, plumbing systems, and controls. Knowledge of fire protection systems is also desirable.

You will be expected to:

• Be a strong representative of Jacobs, particularly when working with clients to deliver work

• Manage a group of junior engineers, intermediate engineers, senior engineers, and technologists

• Be responsible for managing your direct reports' workloads and performance

• Support the initiatives of the Group Lead

• Design complete HVAC systems, including package type and central plants

• Design HVAC Controls systems with integration into Building Management Systems and SCADA Systems.

• Design complete Plumbing systems, including utility and potable distribution systems, drainage systems, and miscellaneous systems such as compressed air and natural gas

• Design fire protection systems using a performance system approach

• Perform calculations for HVAC loads, duct and pipe sizing, life-cycle costs, and energy analyses

• Prepare calculations for plumbing systems, including water and drainage flows, water heater sizing and pump sizing and selection

• Prepare detailed design drawings and specifications

• Prepare Basis of Design reports and Technical Memorandums

• Select equipment, vendor coordination, and edit specifications

• Conduct field evaluations and develop as-built drawings

• Manage and coordinate work with engineers and technicians of other disciplines and architects

• Lead meetings and communicate with clients, vendors, and other project stakeholders to establish project needs and discuss design issues

• Manage quality and schedule of work and interface with clients

• Manage project budgets, including estimating efforts to complete

• Support field staff during construction phase of projects, including responding to submittal reviews and requests for information

Here's what you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or other related degree

• 15+ years experience in producing HVAC, plumbing, and fire protection designs and providing services during construction for design-bid-build projects

• Active Professional Engineer (P.Eng) license

Ideally, You'll Also Have:

• Experience with managing direct reports

• A demonstrated ability to lead teams of designers and engineers

• Experience with alternative delivery project models (design-build, progressive design-build, CM, CMAR, P3, Alliance, IPD)

• Construction site experience

• History of working in a corporate engineering environment

• Experience in preparing basis of design reports, detailed design drawings and specifications.

• Proficiency with building load calculations software using Carrier HAP or Trane Trace software.

• Working knowledge of applicable building codes and standards including NBC, ASHRAE, NFPA, SMACNA, CSA, IBC, IECC, etc.

• Experience preparing technical specifications and reports.

• Strong analytical, interpersonal and organizational skills.

• Ability to effectively interface and communication with project team members, management, and clients.

• Ability to effectively manage project workload, budgets, schedules and an ability to work with, lead, and mentor junior engineers.

• A strong sense of being self-motivated and an ability to work productively without supervision.

• Certification in a recognized sustainability rating system (LEED, Passive House, etc.)

• Recent project experience in delivering projects for Metro Vancouver, Toronto Water, Regional Municipalities of Peel and/or York and/or Halton

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Posted Salary Range: Minimum 134,000.00 Posted Salary Range: Upper 174,000.00

The base salary range for this position is $134,000.00 to $174,000.00. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across Ontario, Canada locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. This job posting is for an existing vacancy.

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