Mechanical Engineer

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Mechanical Engineer Job Description

Location: Cedar Rapids, Madison, and/or Des Moines

Position: 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:

• Bachelors of Science, Mechanical Engineering
• Minimum 2 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.