DLR Group
Consulting & Professional ServicesDirect Greenhouse career site

Mission Critical Mechanical Design Leader

Location
Austin, TX
Job type
Full-time
Level
Director
Experience
15+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
30 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • Professional Engineer license
  • HVAC system design
  • central utility plant design
  • Autodesk Revit MEP
  • fire suppression design

Also useful

  • BIM workflow

Position Summary

As the Mission Critical Mechanical Design Leader, you will be responsible for leading the design of mechanical systems for buildings within the Mission Critical space. You will lead a mechanical engineering team to produce high-quality construction documents using Revit and manage project schedules to meet deliverable requirements. As part of the integrated design team, you will collaborate closely with other disciplines to produce highly integrated building designs.

The successful candidate will

  • Manage operations, execution, and expectations for the Mechanical Engineering Discipline tied to Mission Critical.
  • Workplan mechanical engineering projects and manage staff to execute work to the plan to achieve profitability goals.
  • Assign duties, responsibilities, and projects to personnel, properly balancing staffing and workload (team and personal) to achieve profit and revenue growth goals.
  • Schedule, facilitate and document meetings with staff and clients related to overall operations.
  • Partner with sector and practice leadership to perform all personnel functions such as recruitment, training, and evaluation of personnel.
  • Support business development initiatives by assisting the RFP process, participating in project interviews, and actively engaging in community and/or industry specific organization that will build the DLR Group brand.
  • Maintain industry leading workplace practices to drive operating unit and culture towards a great place to work status.
  • Develop mechanical designs from concept through completion of construction, including engineering design calculations, detailed engineering reports and narratives, and coordination of mechanical design requirements.
  • Perform quality control of the mechanical engineering plans and specifications.
  • Direct or coordinate activities of personnel, vendors, and consultants.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
  • Licensed Mechanical Engineer.
  • 15+ years of experience working as a mechanical engineer, including design of HVAC systems, central utility plants, plumbing and fire suppression systems.
  • 5+ years of experience of design experience related to data centers.
  • Working knowledge of the design and construction process and the ability to understand and communicate with professionals of other disciplines.
  • Prior experience leading teams of Engineers.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience with BIM (e.g. Autodesk Revit MEP) work flow.

Additional information

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients' success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values - commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork - we elevate the human experience through design, together.

DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

About DLR Group

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you're in the right place.

DLR Group has an opening for a Mission Critical Mechanical Design Leader.

Read the original posting

From DLR Group's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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