Senior Plumbing Engineer

About the role

The Senior Plumbing Engineer will combine deep technical plumbing expertise with leadership responsibilities in growing our plumbing team. This role balances hands-on project involvement with business development, client engagement, and mentoring of engineering staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide a superior level of technical services to our clients for their projects and technical support requirements, providing technical and project control direction, and mentoring to other engineers and designers.
• Provide engineering design, evaluation, and planning of plumbing systems for healthcare, life sciences, higher education, and data center market types.
• Identify, formulate, and initiate solutions to complex problems requiring multiple-discipline involvement, along with discipline-specific analytical tools.
• Coordinate work activities that affect the quality of project control, scope development, proposals, engineering & design, document control, inspection & testing, and commissioning.
• Review and check the work of others. Effectively apply self-checking to their work.
• Identify and resolve complex problems that involve the use of conflicting or incomplete information.
• Advanced data gathering and site assessments at customers’ facilities
• Review and editing of project specifications
• Develop bidding documents for process equipment, fabrication, and construction.
• Able to review Revit production models and work interactively with support staff in the development of project deliverables.
• This position is intended to provide guidance and direction for support staff.
• Oversee preparation of technical drawings and bid documents.
• Lead multidisciplinary project teams through all phases of design and construction.
• Serve as the primary client contact for plumbing design within projects.
• Perform QA/QC reviews of design work to ensure quality and compliance with applicable codes and standards.

Skills

• Client engagement and business development experience.
• Advanced expertise with Autodesk software (Revit, Navisworks).
• Ability to perform and review complex plumbing system calculations.
• Ability to comprehend, contribute to, and carry out strategies to manage our relationships with customers, suppliers, and alliance team members.
• Experience at a design engineering firm required.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and take initiative to drive projects forward.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 10+ years of experience engineering and managing plumbing systems projects from start to finish for the built environment.
• Registration as P.E. preferred.

Location

Tustin, CA (on-site with remote Fridays).

Travel

Up to 30%.

Compensation & Benefits

Salas O’Brien health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Team members have access to medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance, a 401(k) plan, and the ability to purchase company stock at a discount. Salas O’Brien has both U.S. and Canadian (PTO) plans for full-time salaried, exempt and non-team members, 10 paid holidays, and paid leave programs for military service and new parents. And certain roles may be eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, performance discretionary bonus, and stock. The base salary range for this position is $140,000 to $200,000. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Equal Opportunity Employment Statement

Salas O’Brien provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state/provincial, or local laws.