Lead Plumbing Engineer - Buildings

Description

• Engage with Clients and Lead: lead meetings, present options and trade‑offs, and drive informed decision-makingduring project design. Interact and collaborate with our clients, design professionals, other engineers, architects, sub-consultants, contractors, trade contractors, and building and infrastructure authorities on Federal, State, and regional agencies in a confident and professional manner.
• Manage multi ‑ discipline coordination with mechanical, electrical, fire protection, architectural, and civil teams; integrate design with BIM workflows (Revit/AutoCAD)
• Conduct on-site observations of existing and proposed building site conditions, equipment, utilizes, resources, infrastructure, and current usage. Provide junior engineers with guidance on collecting, compiling, and analyzing data from the physical work site, surveys, legacy blueprints, schematics, data, technical drawings, computer-generated reports.
• Own Quality: ensure compliance with codes and standards (IPC/UPC, NFPA e.g., 13/14/20) and firm design standards and guidelines. Coordinate, review and approve design plans, ensuring compliance with all applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations. Stamp/seal deliverables as appropriate.
• Support construction administration: respond to RFIs, review submittals and shop drawings, attend site visits, and verify installation against plans and specifications.
• Develop design deliverables: Apply high-level plumbing engineering techniques and processes to identify improvements for various building projects. Prepare calculations, equipment sizing, engineering reports, design narratives. Develop design from conceptual phase through detailed design onto construction documents and implementation plans and technical specifications.
• Lead plumbing system design for buildings: Steer the design for domestic water, sanitary waste, vent, storm, natural gas, fire suppression and protection, specialty lab & medical gases. Oversee and monitor junior engineers, technicians, and/or other scientific professionals to execute project work on multiple concurrent projects, including tracking design budget hours and expenses, monitoring task completion, overseeing technical calculations, schematics, and project documentation, including regulatory and technical analyses.
• Embody Our Culture: Develop, Review, Disseminate, and abide by site Health and Safety Plans (HASPs). 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.

Requirements

• Professional Engineer License, with the ability to seek comity in Kansas and Missouri withing 6 months of hire.
• ASPE Certified in Plumbing Design (CPD)
• Candidates must reside in or relocate to the Kansas City area; this is not a fully remote position. While we provide flexibility, regular in-office days are part of the schedule as our team uses in person time for coordination and mentoring.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Architectural/Building System, Plumbing, or Mechanical Engineering, or closely related discipline.
• Well-defined specific knowledge of relevant plumbing and mechanical engineering and construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements. A deep knowledge of IPC/UPC, NFPA standards, and local authority requirements is a must.
• 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.
• High proficiency in technical writing, office software and automation, load calculations methods, discipline-specific design software technology, math principles, spreadsheets, and related tools. Proficiency in Revit, AutoCAD, and Bluebeam.
• 7 to 10 years of relevant post education experience in engineering discipline and prior plumbing or mechanical design experience related to buildings.
• Master’s Degree in Engineering.
• Ability to work on a schedule that is conducive to project-specific requirements that may extend beyond the typical workday or workweek.
• Demonstrated ability to lead project designs, coordinate with architects and other engineers, guide junior designers, and communicate clearly with clients and field teams. Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience. Works independently with minimal oversight as well as provide guidance and leadership to junior team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Experience with building planning, design, and construction management; including active involvement in a variety of renovation, expansion, rehabilitation, and new design projects.
• LEED AP Certification
• 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.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance