Mechanical Designer

Mechanical Designer

Comfort, safety, and energy performance are decided on the drawings long before a system is installed. You will turn owner requirements and architectural intent into mechanical designs that can be permitted, coordinated, and built - HVAC, plumbing, and fire protection that hold up in review and in the field. When your model is clear and your calculations are sound, contractors can price with confidence and projects stay on schedule.

Performance Objectives

• Produce coordinated Revit drawing sets for HVAC, plumbing, and fire protection that clear internal QA and support permit submission on the agreed milestone.
• Size equipment, duct, and piping from documented load and flow calculations so selections match space, capacity, and code without late redesign.
• Resolve clashes with architectural, structural, and electrical models before each coordination issue, and document the decisions that affect ceiling space and risers.
• Incorporate energy-conservation and sustainability criteria into system layouts so designs support the project’s efficiency targets, not just minimum code.
• Review shop drawings and submittals against the design intent and return comments that contractors can act on without a second round of ambiguity.
• Capture existing conditions from surveys and as-builts and reflect them in the model so new work ties into what is actually in the building.

Environment & Resources

You will work inside a small multidisciplinary MEP practice - mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection - reporting to a project engineer or principal. Day-to-day tools are Revit and standard load, duct, and pipe calculation software, with senior review before documents are sealed. Projects are primarily New York–area commercial, residential, and institutional work, including central plants, ventilation, and sprinkler coordination. You will have direct access to the engineers who own the calculations and to field input when existing buildings do not match the drawings.

Essential Qualifications

• Proven production of mechanical construction documents in Revit, including sheets, schedules, and details a contractor can build from.
• Working knowledge of HVAC, plumbing, and fire-protection layout, equipment selection, and the codes that govern them in New York practice.
• Ability to run or interpret heating, cooling, ventilation, and piping calculations and trace every major size back to those numbers.
• Experience coordinating models with other disciplines and closing clashes before they reach the jobsite.
• Clear written markups on shop drawings and RFIs that state the required change and why it matters.
• Associate degree or equivalent experience in mechanical design or a related building-systems discipline.

Why This Role

• Breadth across HVAC, plumbing, fire protection, and energy studies - not a single system type repeated for years.
• Visible ownership on real projects in a 11–50 person firm, with principals close to the work.
• Designs that must survive dense urban construction: tight ceilings, existing buildings, and multi-trade coordination.
• Sustainability is part of the brief - LEED-oriented and energy-conservation work, not an afterthought.

If you want your drawings to be the ones the field trusts, apply with a short note on a mechanical set you produced and what changed because of your coordination.