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Summary: 

Senior Project Engineer is an experienced project development and design engineering position.  This associate provides technical analysis and oversight for project development activities related to site surveys, energy analysis, savings calculations, scope development, technical reports, and project design engineering. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Primary duties and responsibilities include the following.  Other duties may be assigned.

Technical

• Applies experience based knowledge of engineering principles and practices 
• Provides technical analysis and review for design-build projects related to HVAC, controls, lighting, and other building systems
• Act as an internal and external technical resource for complex and advanced engineering projects
• Performs expert design engineering, including but not limited to the following:
  • Building heating/cooling loads
  • Building envelope
  • Zone airflow
  • Pump and fan design (configuration, flow, head/pressure, motor size, etc.)
  • Duct and pipe sizing and layout
  • Equipment selection (pumps, fans, motors, drives, chillers, boilers, etc.)
  • Drawings and project documentation
  • Technical Reports
  • Project submittals
  • Managing RFI process for projects
• Leads technical project development engineering efforts of multiple associates on large scale projects
• Leads site audit activities to identify existing conditions of the facility and associated equipment
• Assist in initial site visits and vetting of new project opportunities
• Drives improvement of data capture and analysis technology for the project engineering team
• Develops data logging plans by specifying appropriate equipment, point lists, trend interval, trend durations, and subcontractors for effective monitoring of systems and facility operations
• Deploys and retrieves data logging equipment to monitor, understand, and troubleshoot existing system operations
• Analyzes various data sources providing expert trend analysis to identify any deviations that require further investigation, troubleshoot system deficiencies, and proposes sequence improvements or service recommendations to the appropriate internal or external customer
• Leads scope identification, equipment selection, and defines overall project basis of design
• Correlates the energy model simulation to real world control sequences and setpoints
• Specifies expert level control sequences of operation to improve efficiency, operational reliability, and interoperability between disparate building systems
• Performs expert energy modeling using simulation software such as Trane TRACE 700, hourly spreadsheet analysis, or other simplified spreadsheet analysis
• Customizes software and spreadsheets to deliver high quality technical results, reports, standardized tools, and presentations
• Performs system layout, equipment selections, basis of design, and detailed system design for project engineering and cost estimating efforts
• Manages creation of project documentation drawings in AutoCAD, Revit, and/or MS Visio
• Manages work with third party consulting engineers by creating scopes of work, identifying quality consultants, and reviewing work product to ensure quality results