Lead Mechanical Engineer

Redtree is an engineering firm specializing in engineering, project management, and construction support services for mission-critical facilities, power systems, industrial projects, and complex infrastructure. The Lead Mechanical Engineer will lead mechanical design, planning, construction administration, and startup activities for power generation projects while mentoring engineers and coordinating multidisciplinary and distributed project teams.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as technical lead for mechanical scope on assigned power generation projects, setting design direction and quality standards for the team
• Bring deep, hands-on power plant design experience to bear on complex mechanical systems for coal, natural gas, and combined cycle generation facilities
• Mentor, train, and develop less experienced engineers, including reviewing their calculations, drawings, and design decisions
• Manage and lead teams of mechanical engineers to complete assigned activities, including workload planning and task delegation
• Direct and support project teams and engineering staff overseas as part of Redtree's global CSI network, ensuring consistent design quality and coordination across time zones
• Perform front-end planning, preliminary design, code analysis, and detailed design for mechanical systems at coal and natural gas fired generation facilities and associated balance of plant systems
• Design and size mechanical equipment and piping systems, including pumps, blowers, tanks, and vessels, along with hydraulic calculations and valve/pipe material selection
• Develop and review P&IDs for pumps, vessels, and tanks
• Support air quality control systems and effluent limitation guideline (ELG) management for generation facilities
• Prepare final design packages, including bidding documents and specifications, for compliance with applicable mechanical and building codes, industry standards, and client specifications
• Coordinate with electrical, civil, structural, and project management teams to ensure integrated, constructible designs
• Support construction administration and startup activities, primarily through remote review of compliance submittals, technical direction, and resolution of construction issues, with occasional site visits as needed
• Support proposal development, scoping, and schedule estimation for new project pursuits
• Contribute to project documentation, drawing sets, and technical specifications throughout the project lifecycle (feasibility, preliminary engineering, detailed design, PM/CM, startup/commissioning)
• Lead development-support and owner's-engineer work, such as technical due diligence and design reviews, as needed

Requirements:

• • Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
• • Professional Engineer (PE) license required
• • 12+ years of hands-on mechanical design experience specifically within the power generation industry, including coal, natural gas, gas-fired, and/or combined cycle power plants
• • Demonstrated track record designing balance-of-plant mechanical systems for power plants (piping, pumps, tanks, vessels, air quality/emissions systems)
• • Demonstrated experience mentoring, training, or leading other engineers, including reviewing their technical work
• • Working knowledge of hydraulic calculations, pump/piping selection and sizing, and valve and pipe material selection
• • Familiarity with P&ID development and mechanical equipment condition assessment
• • Understanding of relevant mechanical and environmental/air quality codes and industry standards
• • Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to coordinate across multidisciplinary project teams and represent mechanical scope to clients
• • Willingness to travel to project/construction sites as needed (estimated to be 10-20%)
• • 100% remote work, U.S.-based, with no relocation or office requirement
• Work Authorization: Must be able to work in the United States without employer sponsorship, now or in the future
• • Experience formally leading or managing a team of engineers, including staff development and performance feedback
• • Experience directing or coordinating with engineering staff or project teams overseas, or in distributed/multi-time-zone environments
• • Experience with plant modernization, life extension, or uprate projects in addition to new-build work
• • Exposure to development-support, owner's-engineer, or conceptual design work for conventional power projects
• • Experience with lifecycle cost analysis and mechanical equipment condition assessment