Mechanical Engineer - Plumbing

About the role

BRPH is seeking a highly motivated Plumbing Designer to join our team. We are a technically driven, creative architecture, engineering, and construction firm with more than 60 years of experience supporting mission-driven clients across the aerospace, defense, manufacturing, and federal markets. Our teams help clients identify gaps in program delivery and develop innovative, forward-thinking solutions to some of the most demanding technical challenges—across the U.S. and around the world.

Job Responsibilities

• Affords client contact and communication pertaining to specific projects.
• Attends client meetings.
• Assists in the analysis of data received by others to plan and design projects.
• Prepares design computations and applies plumbing design fundamentals.
• Understands and utilizes plumbing design terminology.
• Assists in the preparation of reports and white papers.
• Performs site/field investigations to collect data for plumbing assignments.
• May instruct and supervise daily tasks of drafters and Designer Levels I and II.
• Provides advice, guidance, and mentoring for drafting and plumbing designer staff.
• Provides technical support to other staff in area of expertise.
• Performs advanced CADD and Revit drafting on a regular basis to produce designs into non-routine final drawings.
• Uses AutoCAD and Revit in calculations of dimensions and distances.
• Be able to visualize from two dimensions to three dimensions.
• Ability to produce drawings in three dimensions.
• Produces designs and drawings from vendor’s and manufacturer’s catalog and technical data.
• Researches discipline-related code issues and presents interpretations.
• Performs checking of one’s own work and work prepared by drafters and engineering designers.
• Promote communication, cooperation, and quality among staff.
• Must be able to perform the following tasks:
• Ensure design is in compliance with all applicable codes.
• Ensure design is in compliance with client criteria.
• Ensure consistency between symbol/legends and drawings, details and riser diagrams.
• Provide complete designer checks of one’s own work.
• Verify drawings/PDF’s look presentable and conform to company standards.
• Perform domestic water and sanitary drainage fixture unit calculations.
• Size domestic water (cold, hot and hot water return), sanitary and vent systems.
• Calculate slopes of sanitary pipe system to indicated invert elevations.
• Cordinate route of underground piping below slab with foundation and structural engineer.
• Calculate domestic water requirements and size domestic water booster pump based upon available pressure and flow.
• Calculate hot water requirements and size hot water heater(s) and expansion tank.
• Size hot water heater return pump.
• Calculate roof areas for sizing storm system.
• Layout and size storm system.
• Cordinate roof drains location with architect/structural engineer.
• Provide and coordinate plumbing fixture cut sheets with architect/client for approval.
• Provide complete plumbing fixture and equipment schedules.
• Cordinate VTRs with mechanical engineer.
• Cordinate plumbing services and utilities with civil engineer.
• Complete Kitchen Design:
• Calculate gas load requirements. Coordinate meter location with civil/gas company.
• Layout and size gas system.
• Calculate grease requirements.
• Layout and size grease system and size grease interceptor.
• Cordinate hot water temperature requirement with kitchen schedule/consultant.
• Cordinate plumbing kitchen design requirement with kitchen consultant.
• Complete Industrial System Design:
• Calculate compressed air requirements and size air compressor.
• Calculate vacuum requirements and size vacuum pumps and holding tanks.
• Write all required specification for small and medium sized jobs.
• Perform all tasks assigned on prevention checklists.
• Cross check plumbing drawings against other discipline drawings and participate in redi-check and other cross-checking activities.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a high school/GED diploma and 7 years experience, or
• Associate's degree or equivalent from two-year accredited college or technical school and minimum 6 years related experience, or
• Bachelor’s degree and 4 years experience

Physical Requirements

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.