Senior Mechanical Engineer - Healthcare

Job Description

Lead Mechanical Solutions That Advance Healthcare - Senior Mechanical Engineer - Healthcare - Nashville, TN

Dewberry is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer - Healthcare to join our Nashville team, where you'll apply your expertise to help shape complex healthcare environments that serve patients, providers, and communities. In this role, you'll serve as a trusted technical leader, guiding multidisciplinary project teams, mentoring developing engineers, and collaborating with Project and Client Managers to deliver innovative mechanical solutions that balance performance, reliability, budget, and client expectations. Working alongside architectural, electrical, structural, and other engineering professionals, you'll contribute to a diverse portfolio of healthcare, public, private, and federal projects while helping drive technical excellence and successful project outcomes across the practice.

For nearly four decades, MEPS South, an engineering division of Dewberry Engineers Inc, has delivered engineering excellence across Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Our team is trusted by educational institutions, healthcare systems, and public-sector clients to solve complex challenges and design projects that strengthen the communities we serve. We're looking for engineers, designers, and technical leaders who are passionate about solving complex challenges, collaborating with talented professionals, and continuously growing their skills. Whether you're launching your career or bringing years of experience, you'll find opportunities to learn, lead, and make a meaningful impact while helping build a better future for the communities we serve in MEPS South.

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors is our people. At Dewberry, we seek exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century. 

Responsibilities

• Would be expected to provide the following to others on the design team to effectively and successfully complete projects:
• Technical guidance and quality oversight, including code review, of all project work involving mechanical engineering.
• Technical training and development of staff.
• Establishing and improving standards, practices, guidelines, and specifications for mechanical discipline area.
• Engineer of Record.
• Provide 'on-the-spot' advice and decisions - technical and cost estimates.
• Coordination with all of the disciplines involved, including outside consultants.
• Technical interface with code officials and contractors.

Required Skills & Required Experience

• Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) or ability to obtain licensure through reciprocity (example through Comity) within the State in which the position is posted within six (6) months.
• 10+ years of progressive technical experience in the design of mechanical systems for healthcare projects.
• Experience should include design and evaluation of central chilled water and boiler plants, HVAC design of various departments/spaces found in a typical hospital, ambulatory surgery centers, freestanding emergency departments, medical office buildings, technical oversight of multiple projects with proven success providing technical oversight on projects that meet contract specifications and technical standards to the client on time and within budget.
• Self-motivated with highly developed verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
• Well organized, takes good notes

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for our employee’s. So if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

*Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.

Notice to Third Party Recruiters:  Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.

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