As a Mechanical HVACP Engineer, you will design HVAC and plumbing solutions, prepare engineering reports, provide construction oversight, and ensure project quality. You will work on various industrial and municipal projects, coordinating with clients and mentoring junior staff while gaining professional development.
Woodard & Curran is a national engineering, science, and operations firm with a simple vision for clean water, a safe environment, healthy communities, and happy people. As an employee-owned company, we strive to cultivate teams that encourage collaboration in an inclusive culture. We seek talented individuals from all backgrounds to help us address a broad range of water and environmental issues. We prioritize our people, offering opportunities for professional growth, ownership, and flexibility. This commitment enables us to make a meaningful impact on our clients, communities, and the planet.
What’s in it for you:
We’re looking for a driven HVAC & Plumbing Engineer to become part of our dedicated HVACP engineering group. This small, agile team plays a vital role in supporting the broader organization by delivering expert mechanical, HVAC, and plumbing solutions across multiple practices firm-wide. As an HVAC & Plumbing Engineer at Woodard & Curran you will work on heating, ventilation, air conditioning, odor control, and plumbing projects for our industrial, water, wastewater, municipal, design-build, and plant operations clients on a regional and national basis. You will interface with clients to understand their HVAC and plumbing requirements for municipal, utility, and industrial facilities. You will also prepare and coordinate engineering reports, studies, calculations, drawings, and specifications. In addition, you will perform construction phase services such as shop drawing review and contractor oversight and will carry out QA/QC functions to ensure accuracy and adequacy of work products.
Your work will come in varying degrees of complexity and although you will develop to work independently on most projects, our experienced engineers will be there to support you collaboratively, answer questions, and provide on-the-job mentoring. Our engineers and designers come from a diverse background with experience on many types of projects and systems. You will have an opportunity to develop your career professionally, technically, and personally. Our shared goal is to support your development, advancement, responsibility growth and work portfolio within the group and organization.
Who are we looking for:
This is an exciting opportunity to deliver HVAC & plumbing design solutions for various building and space types in a consulting environment. Our diverse portfolio of projects means that you will have the chance to work across different markets and geographies. We often encounter critical systems in industrial environments like water treatment and manufacturing buildings, as well as occupied spaces requiring comfort and energy efficiency requirements.
This position level is flexible based on experience and qualifications of the candidate. Candidates with related mechanical engineering experience ranging from 2 – 5 years of experience are encouraged to apply.
This will be hybrid remote with some office days may also be desired.
Location: Near Woodard & Curran New England offices
Travel up: 10% within the US
Project may include:
- A new, large municipal Water Treatment Plant. Building square footage of about 30,000 square feet including 8,000 square feet of administrative office spaces with the remainder being process spaces. Process spaces include chemical storage, blower room, tanks, and filtration. HVAC systems include dedicated outdoor air systems (DOAS), VRF, and high efficiency condensing boiler hydronic systems. Plumbing systems include indirect domestic hot water tank system, MA approved emergency eyewash systems, and laboratory fixtures.
- A new wastewater treatment facility with multiple buildings including various process spaces and systems. HVAC systems include high efficiency air source heat pump units compliant with CA Title 24 energy codes.
- A new 5,000 square foot higher education research and testing center including office space, research and laboratory facility, and a supporting drainage treatment plant. HVAC systems include dedicated outdoor air systems (DOAS), VRF, and laboratory hazardous exhaust and makeup air systems. Plumbing systems include MA approved emergency eyewash systems, and laboratory fixtures.
What will you be doing at Woodard & Curran:
- Perform work under the supervision, guidance, review and oversight of a Technical Manager, Project Engineer, or other experienced engineer within the team.
- Plan, schedule, conduct or coordinate detailed phases of the engineering work as part of the overall project scope.
- Perform work that involves conventional engineering practice but may include a variety of complex elements such as conflicting design requirements, unsuitability of conventional materials and challenging coordination requirements.
- Support project level-of-effort and fee cost estimate development.
- Support project construction cost estimate development.
- Perform QA/QC function under guidance of senior engineers.
- Responsible for understanding scope, schedule, and budget of projects and assignments.
- Responsible for understanding personal utilization goals.
- Support developing technical presentations to clients at public meetings, and to regulatory agencies.
- Interface directly with clients, sub-consultants, vendors and/or regulatory agencies when required.
- Cultivate relationships with key internal and external clients, and mentor junior level staff as your career develops.
What You Will Need to Succeed:
- BS in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, or other building engineering. Other backgrounds may also be considered.
- 2-5 years of experience in design and building construction, especially HVAC and plumbing.
- EI or EIT (passed the Fundamentals of Engineering exam preferred).
- Future Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) registration is a career development preference.
- Successful candidate must be a self-starter and thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented work environment.
- Proficient in Autodesk Revit and AutoCad.
- Proficient in MS Office suite and openness to learning new software.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong attention to detail, analytical, and strong organization skills.
- Ability to coordinate and interact with co-workers, project staff, various clients and government agencies.
Employee Support & Benefits
Retirement Savings:
• 401(k) Pre-tax or Roth Contributions: The company matches 100% of the first 3% of salary contributed
Time away from work:
• Observed holidays: Choose up to 9 holidays to observe annually
• Vacation: Accrued based on years of experience and calculated on hours worked
• Sick time: Paid sick time for non-work related illness or injury.
• Parental leave: Up to 80 hours of Paid Parental Leave for child bonding
Coverage and support for your needs and well-being:
• Disability: Paid short and long term disability
• Health: Medical plan options; plus dental and vision plans.
• Life: Basic employee group life insurance and AD&D benefits; additional voluntary life insurance for employees and families is available through Sun Life.
• Wellbeing: DarioMind assistance program combined with personalized mental health and wellbeing resources.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Woodard & Curran is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans are encouraged to apply. We are committed to ensuring our employment practices are non-discriminatory and based solely on job-related factors.
If you have a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to apply, please contact Beth Sweitzer.
Inclusion & Belonging
We welcome individuals from all backgrounds to apply, as we believe that different perspectives and experiences enrich our workplace and enhance our ability to serve our clients and communities effectively.
At Woodard & Curran, we are committed to fostering a respectful and inclusive work environment. We understand that the best solutions for our clients and communities come from a culture that nurtures the success and growth of all employees. As an employee-owned organization, our dedication to fostering growth, access and opportunity empowers us to serve our clients effectively and advance our mission of making a positive impact on the world. Our success is rooted in supporting our team members to reach their full potential, enabling us to deliver the most innovative, sound and effective solutions to improve our communities around us.
Non-Solicitation Disclosure:
Please be advised that we do not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate submissions from recruitment agencies. Any resumes or candidate profiles submitted without a signed contract in place will be considered unsolicited and will not be eligible for any referral fees. Recruitment agencies must have a valid, signed agreement with our company prior to following the submission process to consider potential candidates.
Top Skills
Autocad
Autodesk Revit
MS Office
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