Lead Mechanical Design Engineer

Modern Niagara EngineeringInc.helps design and manage construction projects from initial concept to final product. We ensure our clients plans specifications and needs are met within budget on time and communicated effectively.

We value passion initiative determination professionalism and teamwork and we are committed to ensuring that our teams have everything they need to succeed. Health and safety are embedded in everything we do and as a result our award-winning safety culture has a record thats well above industry standards.

At Modern Niagara you will work alongside values-driven safety-conscious and high-impact teams in a fast-paced innovative and collaborative environment. Here your knowledge skills and excellent service will help ensure that the buildings that make up Canadas infrastructure fulfill the needs they were set out to meet.

Modern Niagara is one of Canadas Best Managed Companies and is a recipient of SMACNAs Safety Excellence Award Program (SSEAP) Canada and the Canadian Occupational Safety (COS) Magazines Gold Winner for Canadas Safest Employers Award in the Building and Construction category and Excellence Winner for Canadas Best Health Safety Culture Award as well as Canadas Best Health Safety Leader Award.

To be part of a team to further develop and support the growth of Modern Niagara Engineering services. The Lead Mechanical Design Engineer for our design build offering is a full-time permanent position for the current engineering services of Modern Niagara nationally. We are seeking a strong candidate that will help Modern Niagara continue to position itself as an innovative industry leader as it relates to design and engineering innovation.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Delegates specific tasks to team members and manages project deliverables
• Work with train mentor and help develop a team of junior Engineers
• Provides engineering analysis to support sales estimating and early design efforts.
• Responsible for leading the system design calculations and application selection of Plumbing HVAC and Fire Protection systems
• Responsible for the specification compliance of designs and ensures the mechanical design output fits in with all other aspects of the design
• Ability to do selection of HVAC Fire Protection and Plumbing components
• Responsible for preparing and presenting mechanical designs details and specifications at design reviews
• Take the technical lead on specific projects and coordinate the technical approach with the Engineering Manager
• Interact with Architects consulting engineers internal and external customers suppliers and manufacturing teams.
• Manages teams workload to deliver assigned projects on time and in budget.
• Follow departmental processes relating to management of designs
• Develop unified national processes standards and procedures
• Leverage new and existing technology to streamline designs
• Review plans bid documents equipment schedules specifications
• Coordinates with internal design and construction teams.
• Be responsible for promoting teamwork and good company morale.
• Attends regular design meetings with customers and external stakeholders
• Conduct yourself with the highest ethical standards

Qualifications and Job Requirements:

• Licensed Mechanical Professional Engineer preferably in several provinces
• Proficient background in HVAC fundamentals and knowledge of HVAC systems for Commercial and Institutional buildings
• Minimum 10 years design related experience in HVAC Plumbing and Fire Protection
• This experience shall include pursuit compliance and design in the P3 market focused on hospital and high-rise buildings
• Preference will be given to candidates with a range of experience including hospital pharmaceutical and data center experience as well as industrial process
• Extensive experience in coordinating with other disciplines (electrical structural architectural Energy)
• Experience with incremental technical and project leadership responsibilities
• Project management experience including developing project plans and timelines tracking project progress
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Highly motivated and self-directed capable of multi-tasking and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to drive across the province.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of equipment and labour costs
• Willingness to travel

We thank all applicants for their interest however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

At Modern Niagara we recognize the value of fostering a diverse equitable and inclusive organization and are committed to eliminating barriers faced by members of equity-seeking groups (women Indigenous Black racialized LGTBQ2S people with disabilities and new immigrants) in the construction industry. Our DEI vision is to build an organization where everyone has access to the same opportunities experience equitable outcomes and can thrive and reach their full potential.

We value the diversity of the people we hire and serve. Modern Niagara is an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process please advise us so that suitable accommodations can be made. We can be reached at