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Are you ready to design your future?
Be our next Project Manager/Senior Mechanical Engineer for Aviation, Transit, and Commercial building projects in the Chicago office.
Your work environment at EXP
EXP, an award-winning international engineering firm, is currently searching for an experienced Mechanical Engineer to help lead the MEP team in Chicago.
What a day at EXP has in store for you
- Direct and mentor design-level staff on their responsibilities daily.
- Perform at a 'responsible charge' level of meeting EXP's design and quality levels.
- Perform Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QAQC) reviews on specifications, reports, code applications, submittal reviews, equipment selection, deliverables, and drawings.
- Develop internal lessons learned, best practices, and standards.
- Provide meaningful feedback to supervisors on areas of improvement or concern within the team.
- Provide mentoring and guidance to peers and subordinates.
- Determine content of drawings and specifications for designers to meet the scope of work.
- Develop and monitor work plans in conjunction with other PMs.
- Act as the primary liaison between clients and EXP project teams, including subconsultants.
- Be responsible for understanding and negotiating appropriate fees, schedules, and contract terms that are acceptable to the client and beneficial to EXP.
- Ensure project performance, including delivering projects within financial and schedule parameters, and exceeding client expectations.
- Review code-related items with designers and ensure compliance.
- Manage work plans and deliverables on multiple projects within budgeted hours.
- Write studies and reports for systems on projects.
- Write sequences of operations for AHUs, CHW, and HW systems.
- Understand and apply concepts of CHW, HW, WSHP, variable & constant flow systems.
- Manage airside systems - CV, VAV, coil selection, fan selection.
- Manage hydronic systems - hot, chilled, condenser, steam.
- Have a thorough understanding of psychometrics and apply it to every project.
- Prepare/review calculations for loads.
- Have thorough knowledge of codes.
- Edit specifications to reflect project requirements.
- Select and schedule equipment.
- Meet with vendors to determine specification requirements for application.
- Coordinate with other disciplines (MEP/FP, Arch, Struct, etc.).
- Respond to RFIs for the project and accurately review submittals.
- Apply risk management procedures daily to minimize EXP's and client's exposure to problems.
- Understand work planning and manage design processes to the available hours in the work plan.
- Understand the proper scope of SD, DD, CD level documents - and deliver appropriate documentation.
- Work with PC, PM, and clients to meet scheduled project milestones of multiple projects.
- Edit and develop scope of work narratives (SD narrative, basis of design, etc.).
- Understand and properly provide existing EXP details relevant to projects.
- Advanced equipment selection and analysis - chillers, boilers, air terminals, cooling towers, air valves, HEPA filters, DX equipment, and water source heat pumps.
- Have a thorough understanding of total energy concepts.
What your experience looks like
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
- Registered PE.
- 10+ years of experience.
- Strong leadership skills and good communication capabilities.
- Preferred experience in aviation, transit, or commercial buildings.
- Building design experience is a must.