This Opportunity

WSP is seeking a full-time Lead Mechanical Engineer/Project Manager for their Irvine, California office. The following locations will also be considered: Los Angeles, CA. This opportunity involves being part of our deeply experienced Healthcare Team in Southern California.

The WSP Healthcare Team in Southern California is a high performing group that believes a people focused approach brings the best results to our clients. We have a strong backlog with clients built from decades of delivering high quality projects. Our current projects include a wide variety of healthcare design and studies ranging from OSHPD-1 acute care hospitals to OSHPD-3 clinics and extended stay rehabilitation facilities.

Our talent continues to be the driving force behind meeting our client’s objectives, goals and challenges. If this opportunity sounds like a fit for you, we’d love to have the first discussion about you joining our team.

Your Impact

• Lead project mechanical engineer design decision and technical development to ensure work is performed with technical acumen and compliant with all applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations.

• Propose creative solutions, concepts, operating strategies as it relates to mechanical systems and be able to communicate these ideas in a team environment.

• Apply high-level mechanical engineering techniques in development of drawings and specifications.

• Oversee the development and implementation of advanced technologies, monitoring devices, building materials, modeling techniques, design requirements, load calculations, and operating strategies to account for the proper installation and functioning of equipment and systems; implementing future-ready solutions with mechanical engineering design standards.

• Provide high-level technical assistance on various engineering, design, and construction issues relating to automatic temperature control systems and specifications, air distribution (supply, return, exhaust), hydronic systems (chilled water, heating water, etc.) and plumbing systems (domestic water, waste, vent, storm, etc.).

• Lead larger-scale mechanical engineering projects ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.

• Prepare technical reports and presentations that explain research, findings, concepts, and recommendations to improve, prevent, control, restore, or address design, and/or construction issues or opportunities.

• Perform construction administration related tasks such as reviewing construction submittals, responding to RFIs, and performing on-site field observations.

• Engage in mentoring and knowledge sharing activities with junior staff.

• Project management activities including writing proposals, establishing budgets, reviewing billing, and managing client iterations.

• Coordinates activities concerned with technical development, scheduling, and resolving engineering design issues.

• Coordinates the activities of technical staff from project award through project completion.

• Attends client meetings and develops client project requirements based on client feedback.

• Schedules and orchestrates project team meetings.

• Keeps record of system design decisions and shares with QA/QC team to ensure proper review with respect to project scope.

• Understands various project delivery methods as it related to correspondence and contracts with other consultant and construction contractor partners.

• Participate in industry events and opportunities.

• Develop solid client relationships.

• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.

• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or closely related discipline.

• 7 to 10 years of relevant post education experience in engineering discipline and prior mechanical design experience.

• Experience in Mechanical Buildings System Engineering with Project Management experience.

• Engineer license required.

• Proficient with mechanical engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, and the application to project work-related issues.

• Extensive knowledge of building and infrastructure design.

• Experience with building and infrastructure planning, design, and construction management; including active involvement in a variety of rehabilitation, new design, and construction projects.

• Well-defined knowledge with process and concepts for reducing and eliminating the use or generation of hazardous substances/greenhouse gas.

• Well-defined specific knowledge of relevant mechanical engineering and construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements.

• Well-developed ability to make technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles, understanding plans and specifications, and making factual comparisons to the appropriate regulations.

• Ability to plan and conduct inspections and investigations on various aspects of the construction and design of facilities, structures and systems, applying applicable regulations and policies.

• Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.

• Demonstrated high-level of self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, and prioritization of responsibilities in a dynamic work environment.

• Works independently with minimal oversight and provides guidance and leadership to junior team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.

• Highly proficient with technical writing, office automation, load calculations, discipline-specific design software (i.e., AutoCAD, CAM), technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools.

• Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, load calculations, computations, statistical analysis and arriving at the most effective, economical, and logical solution.

• Demonstrated effectiveness at coordinating and assertively directing subcontractors and others to consistently complete tasks safely and efficiently.

• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.

• Ability to work schedules conducive to project-specific requirements that may extend beyond the typical workweek.

• Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

• LEED AP Certification

• Previous Healthcare or Laboratory design experience

• Established relationships with OSHPD to facilitate communication during plan check review and inspection.

• 3+ years of Project Management experience

WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation:

Expected Salary (all locations): $114,000 - $169,290

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

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