Location
Philadelphia PA
Position Id
EB-1910775481
Job Type
Full-Time Regular

Senior Project Manager (Mechanical)
Location: Greater Philadelphia area (remote capacity)
Remote capacity with occasional site/office visits
Salary: to $200K plus bonus (doe)
Benefits: Exceptional benefits including generous PTO, 401K, career development programs and summer hours/half day Fridays
Travel: regular travel to sites is required

  • Variety – Fast paced, growing organization – ability to impact on many levels
  • Exposure – Visibility and involvement in a host of different programs, projects, systems, processes and senior leadership of the company.
  • Growth – Fantastic growth opportunity. Growth is embraced and encouraged with many opportunities within the group and/or elsewhere within the organization.


Our client is a growing, dynamic and industry leader! In this role, you will serve as the technical lead for design execution of projects and the primary contact for the client. You will have the opportunity to oversee a team of professionals executing all project design activities on the project including the design quality, delivery of contracted scope, meeting project objectives, requirements, schedules, and budget.

Primary Duties:

  • Serve as technical subject matter expert for multiple areas of mechanical engineering.
  • Supervise and manage assigned engineers on each project, providing technical guidance, training
    and support for junior engineers.
  • Perform calculations, modeling, engineering, and code research as required.
  • Conduct peer review, technical oversight and quality control of design team’s work products.
  • Provide hands-on project management by consistently reviewing project plans and timelines to
    ensure projects are on time and on budget. Make adjustments to staffing and resources as needed
    to meet deadlines and budget constraints.
  • Organize and facilitate internal and external client meetings ensuring that all action items are
    documented and completed.
  • Provide project coordination with all involved in the project; internal, external, sub-contractors, etc.
  • Work with the VP of group to respond to client issued RFPs. Collaborates with group VP to develop
    and write bid proposals, contracts, cost estimates, budgets, etc. using the agreed upon company
    methods and standards.
  • Establish and maintain excellent client relationship with the goal of maintaining existing clients and
    receiving referrals for new clients.
  • Ensure accurate project accounting, ensuring that project setup, monthly invoicing and accounts
    receivables are done on a timely basis and in compliance with accounting protocols.
  • Participate in trade conferences, business development activities and promotion of the company's marketing activities.

Qualifications:

  • BS in Engineering
  • Minimum 15 years professional experience with proven progression in engineering and project
    management, particularly in power, distributive generation, or related field.
  • Experience in executing a multi-discipline projects utilizing Building Information Modeling (BIM)
    programs or equivalent.
  • Professional Engineer (PE) active licensure required.
Desired Skills:
  • Demonstrated experience engineering power infrastructure projects including central utility plants
    (CUP), combined heat and power (CHP), distributed generation, microgrids.
  • Demonstrated knowledge and experience specifying and integrating into engineered systems
    industrial frame combustion turbines, natural gas and diesel internal combustion engines, heat
    recovery equipment, packaged boilers, chillers and heat pumps, cooling equipment, pumps, and
    balance of plant mechanical equipment is a requirement.
  • Experience with engineering biogas to energy and renewable natural gas highly valued.
  • Knowledge of and experience engineering building and industrial HVAC equipment and systems is a
    plus.
  • Knowledge of ground couple geothermal systems is a plus.
  • Must be knowledgeable of local, state and national code requirements.
  • Must have working knowledge of electrical, controls, structural, civil and architectural discipline
    requirements.
  • Knowledge of power plant process, operations and economics.
  • Experience and knowledge in energy efficiency improvement techniques.
  • Knowledge and experience with construction requirements, , scheduling, trades and OSHA
    regulations.
  • Extensive experience in managing and coordinating multidiscipline projects.
  • Strong working knowledge and utilization of Autocad, Revit experience is a plus.
  • Must be a good time manager, comfortable with frequent deadlines and transitions.
  • Effective at working with other staff members in a fast-paced environment.
  • Must have excellent communication skills to effectively communicate complex ideas and have strong
    technical writing skills and technical documentation skills with the ability to prepare presentations
    and reports.



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