Plumbing And Fire Protection Designer

Plumbing and Fire Protection Designer

Salas O'Brien is an employee-owned engineering and professional services firm focused on achieving impact for our clients, our team, and the world. We are committed to living our values every day: inspiring, achieving, and connecting as shared owners of our success with a focus on a sustainable future. Building for the long-term means that all of our team members can expect to work on amazing projects with a people-first approach to problem solving. It also means that each member of our team has truly limitless potential to build a unique, meaningful, and high-impact career—and they'll receive great total rewards along the way.

Salas O'Brien is seeking a Plumbing and Fire Protection Designer to proactively communicate and coordinate design work within the department, with other disciplines, and with external stakeholders, such as clients and vendors.

Job duties include:

• Listen to our clients' needs and independently provide value to them by evaluating options based upon the client's needs and desires, first cost, and life cycle cost;
• Communicate your design recommendations to our clients, project team, construction contractors, and vendors in presentations, and meetings, via email and phone as necessary;
• Work on a project team with other technical staff to design and detail new systems that are needed, assuring that the work is accurate and coordinated and that the quality assurance measures have been followed;
• Participate in on-site observations, information gathering, and interaction with clients and contractors both during the design and construction phases of the projects to represent Salas O'Brien in the field;
• Design plumbing, fire protection, medical and laboratory gas systems, and industrial and process gas and water systems;
• Develop system concepts, and load analysis, equipment selection, system layout, and specification writing;
• Analyze data and observations to form recommendations for clients and senior internal staff members;
• Partners with business leaders to deliver services that support company objectives and that are consistent with Winning Together values;
• Design and engineering of effective and scalable network systems and solutions;
• Participate in evaluation, testing, selection, and deployment of foundational network elements for a network buildout;
• Ensure that solutions adhere to defined standards and best practices and/or assist in the development of these standards and best practices;
• Effectively design and communicate engineering solutions through detailed high- and low-level diagrams;
• Routinely research, analyze, test, retest, and troubleshoot complex problems. Able to work in a fast-paced environment, with strict deadlines, both as an individual contributor and team leader;
• Proven experience in knowledge transfer, documentation and information sharing while staying abreast of new technology/technical areas;
• Provide advanced technical experience for complex project work, including functional subsystem upgrades for mission critical network devices and services as well as strategic upgrades to the network;
• Design, plan, and implement complex networks;
• Establish requirements, provide analysis for network and services specifications, network design, network partitioning, and network architecture definition;
• Provide advanced expertise in the development of network test, validation, and integration plans on projects, and assurance of network integrity;
• Engage with Solutioning and Sales teams as a subject matter expert during customer calls;
• Ability to mentor junior engineers in advanced technology deployments;
• Time management and the ability to multitask between several ongoing projects; and
• Assist with development of SoW and LoE documentation.

Minimum qualifications:

• U.S. Bachelor's degree (or foreign degree equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related.
• Experience designing either fire protection or plumbing systems meeting current codes and standards.
• Experience performing hydraulic calculations using software tools.
• Experience with AutoCAD design.

Location: Raleigh, NC

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. Salas O'Brien will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants as required by law.