Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

**Company Description**
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Arcadis’ increasing presence in Latin America spans Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Guatemala. We focus on serving a dynamic and expansive market with unique solutions focused on a regional context. Our team integrates an international chain of experts in urban design, architecture, civil engineering, transportation, landscaping, communications, software development and many more areas of specialist activity. The combination of our local knowledge with the global experience of Arcadis helps us deliver the best results to our clients in the region.

Our Architecture & Engineering Industrial team participates in large scale design projects to create future thinking spaces.

Arcadis is looking to hire a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to support industrial construction projects in automotive sector with our Places Team business unit in our north Mexico area at the client site location in Saltillo Coahuila. This is an on-site role for a large client of the automotive sector.

We are looking for a Mechanical Engineer with previous experience designing mechanical systems within buildings to join our Places-industrial Design Practice. In this role, you’ll be delivering/reviewing functional and efficient mechanical design solutions on exciting and challenging projects for key clients across sectors including Industrial Manufacturing.

The Mechanical Engineer will develop and manage projects for the construction of new or modification to existing commercial, industrial and institutional buildings & structures, ensuring conformance with building codes. Perform responsible, professional level mechanical analysis, building and inspections. A heavy portion of this role will be focused on infrastructure and industrial projects. Project experience in this area is expected.
- Position on a project-based contract basis with the possibility of extending it to an indefinite contract within the company
- Full time (40 hrs pw Monday to Friday)
- This position is located on the client’s site

**Role accountabilities**:
Working collaboratively with a multi-discipline team of Arcadians, you will ensure the integration of the overall design or solution. Day-to-day, you will prepare accurate drawings, specifications, reports and other project documentation and ensure that your allocated activities are completed whilst meeting budget, timeframe and quality objectives, also ensuring that client expectations are met.
- As part of the Mexico City Buildings team, you would directly collaborate with other Arcadis teams in Canada, The USA and Latin America
- Working with the Architecture & Engineering Industrial Team in a range of architecture & engineering design projects, mainly focused on Industrial Architecture (manufacturing & automotive)
- Design of **building** mechanical, plumbing and fire protection systems
- Preparation of construction documents including calculations, drawings, reports, specifications, and details
- Construction administration of projects with mechanical content
- Lead projects with a supporting cast, or play a support role on very large projects as appropriate
- Prepare drawing markups and other design related documents
- Oversee the project's detailed design and calculation
- Supervise the design and drawing markup processes
- Conduct internal review and quality checks of engineering drawings and design calculations to ensure compliance with the project's requirements
- Deliver technically complete design documentation, summary reports and technical reports for Design Managers
- Record man-hour charges accurately into weekly timesheets and ensure correctness of project and non-project man-hour charges
- To be fully utilized. Always seek new work/tasks from Principal Engineer/Function Leader
- Resource and develop skills and knowledge base of Design, Assistant and Graduate Engineers assigned to projects
- Liaise with BIM Manager and BIM Coordinators assigned to projects

**Key Attributes**:

- Deep experience working on large construction infrastructure and industrial projects
- Experience with client facing positions with strong client/stakeholder management
- Be capable of managing multiple, unique assignments simultaneously
- Have strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Be self-motivated, team-oriented, and flexible; have the initiative and ability to tackle new projects and challenges daily
- Be health, safety, and quality focused
- Able to work independently including trouble shooting and reporting results
- Understands construction means and methods