Sr. Plumbing Designer

Company Description

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Job Description

The Opportunity

Are you ready to help shape high-performance buildings through thoughtful, resilient plumbing system design? AECOM’s Ohio Buildings + Places team is seeking a Senior Plumbing Designer to play a key role in delivering complex, technically rigorous projects across a wide range of market sectors.

This position is ideal for an experienced plumbing professional who combines strong technical execution with independence, critical thinking, and a collaborative mindset—someone who takes pride in design quality, constructability, and mentoring developing staff. This is a Hybrid opportunity working out of AECOM’s Columbus office.

 About the Ohio Buildings + Places Team

AECOM’s Ohio Buildings + Places practice—anchored in Columbus and Cleveland—is one of the firm’s most established and high-performing regional teams. Our integrated services include architecture, interiors, building systems engineering, structural engineering, urbanism and planning, advisory services, and digital delivery.

We collaborate across AECOM business lines and regions to deliver integrated solutions for Corporate Workplace, Commercial, Federal Civilian and DoD, Healthcare, Mission Critical, Justice, Logistics, Laboratory, and Higher Education clients. Design quality, technical rigor, and long-term performance are central to our work.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Plumbing Designer, you will be responsible for the planning, design, and coordination of plumbing systems from concept through construction administration, supporting both new construction and complex renovation projects.

Technical Design & Execution

• Design and document plumbing systems for high-performance buildings, including domestic water, sanitary and vent systems, storm drainage, medical gas, compressed air, and specialty systems as required.

• Serve as the plumbing discipline lead on projects of varying size and complexity, ensuring technical quality, code compliance, and constructability.

• Independently perform primary plumbing design tasks, including system layouts, sizing calculations, and specification development.

• Apply established engineering and design procedures while adapting solutions to address project-specific challenges.

• Identify discrepancies in design data, drawings, or calculations and proactively develop solutions.

• Stay current with applicable codes, standards, and technologies related to plumbing, medical gas, and fire protection systems.

Project Delivery & Coordination

• Execute plumbing design from concept through construction administration, ensuring alignment with project scope, schedule, and budget.

• Coordinate plumbing and medical gas systems with architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, and fire protection disciplines.

• Clearly communicate complex system concepts during early design phases and in project meetings with internal teams and clients.

• Conduct site visits to evaluate existing conditions and support informed design decisions.

• Review shop drawings, submittals, and RFIs; support construction administration activities as needed.

• Contribute to a collaborative, inclusive team culture that values accountability, learning, and excellence.  Connect with other subject matter experts throughout the US, and contribute to the technical excellence of AECOM's global practice

Quality & Compliance

• Ensure conformance with applicable codes, standards, and established design practices.

• Support project quality control reviews and verify technical adequacy of plumbing designs.

• Deliver accurate,