Job Details

At EXP, we're driven to provide innovative solutions for the world's built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators, and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world's most complex challenges.

Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, and believes diversity is what gives us strength. We seek sustainable results and share ambitions for each other, our clients, and the communities we serve. To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience while staying connected to a global network of professionals who believe we are part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.

Are you ready to design your future?

Be our next Principal Mechanical Engineer

Your work environment at EXP

In this role, you will be part of the MEP team within the Buildings sector (Science/Technology & Life Sciences projects), based in San Francisco, California.

What a day at EXP has in store for you

• Identify, research, and qualify RFP/RFQ's and upcoming projects for go/no go potential.
• Lead and manage submittals in response to RFP/RFQ's.
• Manage existing and develop new client relationships.
• Perform at a responsible charge level, meeting EXP's design and quality standards.
• Manage work plans and deliverables on multiple projects within budgeted hours.
• Collaborate with project teams and clients to meet scheduled milestones.
• Apply risk management procedures daily to minimize EXP's and clients' exposure to problems.
• Understand MEP/FP work planning and manage the design process within the available hours.
• Deliver appropriate scope of work documents at SD, DD, and CD levels.
• Coordinate with other disciplines such as architectural and structural teams.
• Edit and develop scope of work narratives and basis of design documents.
• Develop equipment room sizes during SD and DD phases.
• Maintain thorough knowledge of Mechanical/Electrical codes.
• Perform advanced equipment selection and analysis (generators, UPS units, chillers, boilers).
• Mentor designer-level staff and oversee their responsibilities daily.
• Conduct QA/QC reviews of calculations and provide guidance.
• Understand and apply concepts of CHW, HW, WSHP, variable & constant flow systems.
• Perform advanced equipment selection and analysis, including chillers, boilers, air terminals, cooling towers, HEPA filters, DX equipment, and water source heat pumps.

What your experience looks like

• Engineering Bachelor's degree in HVAC/Mechanical Engineering with 15+ years of HVAC and piping design experience.
• Experience designing HVAC systems for Science/Technology, Life Sciences, or Healthcare projects.
• Experience in project management and leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) preferred.
• Proficiency in REVIT MEP required.

The pay range for this role is $160,000 to $200,000. Actual compensation depends on factors such as skill set, experience, certifications, and location. Compensation may vary in different regions due to labor cost differences.