Mechanical Engineer (Raleigh)
About the role
Our client is an engineering firm that designs mission-critical facilities, including data centers, healthcare, laboratory, pharmaceutical, and industrial environments. Their technical, fast-paced team delivers fully coordinated MEP designs for some of the most demanding building types in the industry, and they invest in daily and weekly training to keep their engineers growing. The Mechanical Engineer produces detailed, fully coordinated construction drawings and performs complex engineering calculations across HVAC, plumbing, and fire protection systems. You will join a highly technical design team delivering mission-critical projects, working with internal and external project partners from concept through construction documents. This role suits an analytical engineer who communicates clearly and holds a high standard for technical accuracy.
Responsibilities
- Design HVAC systems for highly technical environments such as data centers, labs, and healthcare facilities
- Design plumbing systems, including domestic water, sanitary, vent, and specialty piping
- Support performance-based fire protection and controls design
- Perform code analysis and ensure compliance with applicable codes and standards
- Conduct psychrometric analysis and review equipment selections and sizing criteria
- Perform engineering studies, including cooling and heating load calculations, ventilation calculations, air balance summaries, CFD modeling, duct static pressure calculations, pump head calculations, load curtailment strategies, co-simulation
- Produce detailed construction drawings coordinated across all disciplines
- Coordinate with internal and external team members to keep projects on track
- Communicate project goals, challenges, and schedules to project teams and business partners
- Participate in ongoing training and continuous learning initiatives
- Perform other duties as assigned