Senior Mechanical Engineer Jobs

KGS Group is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our growing Mechanical group in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

About Us

We are KGS Group, an employee-owned, multidisciplinary engineering consulting firm serving clients throughout North America. We’re different than traditional engineering firms. We believe a commitment to lasting relationships is just as critical as the expertise applied in our work. To us that means we put our clients and people first. We have the discipline to consistently deliver KGS Quality, never taking the easy way out. We always look closer and dig deeper. And no matter the project, we care enough to do it right.

As an employee-owned company, we’re invested in our work and our people. It’s a place where you can apply your abilities and contribute to challenging and meaningful projects across Canada, the U.S. and beyond. With the extensive, wide-ranging expertise within our company, you’ll also have countless opportunities to learn and grow.

The Role

The Senior Mechanical Engineer will play both a lead and support role within the group, performing technical design work as well as project management and mentoring. You will work directly for outside clients on some projects and you will work on multidisciplinary projects as a lead mechanical engineer with your client being a KGS Project Manager. You will be working in a friendly and collaborative environment with the opportunity to interface directly with clients.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple mechanical commercial and multidisciplinary projects simultaneously from the proposal stage through to completion, including establishment of budgets, developing new clients and maintaining existing client relationships.
• Work collaboratively with other disciplines and the project management team, ensuring schedule and budget are achieved.
• Assist the existing mechanical group in coordinating the assignment of work for yourself and the team to ensure workloads are evenly distributed.
• Managing and mentoring junior engineering and drafting staff.
• Specification and report preparation and detailed review.
• Projects involve local work for the Thunder Bay office mechanical group and other disciplines as well as support on projects for KGS Group’s other offices in Canada and the United States.
• Engineering drawing preparation and review, with specific focus on directing drafting staff on how to layout, annotate and organize high quality mechanical drawings.
• Projects will involve a wide range of clients with a variety of small to large sizes in the commercial, institutional and municipal sectors with potential for addition of industrial projects.
• Construction services including hosting meetings, reviewing shop drawings, progress claims, liaise between Contractors and Owner, commissioning assistance, and construction inspections / substantial completion.
• Mechanical engineering analysis and design of modifications to, or entirely new, mechanical systems.
• Working directly with client groups including architects, owners and contractors.

About You

To fill the role, we’re looking for an applicant to bring forward a good mix of qualifications and previous experience. Some highlights could include:

• Ability and desire to own a task or project and see it through to completion with high quality deliverables.
• Minimum of 15 years’ experience in mechanical engineering with demonstrated technical (data analysis, code and regulations reviews, design calculations, technical report writing) and project management skills (writing project progress reports, tracking budgets and maintaining schedules).
• Ability to adapt to and meet the challenges of a variety of different projects from clients in many different industries.
• Must be willing/able to undergo security clearance checks.
• Demonstrated mechanical design experience in commercial and light industrial building mechanical systems including HVAC, Plumbing and Fire Protection systems for renovation and greenfield projects.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required.
• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from a recognized university.
• Construction Administration experience including writing addendums, proposed change notices, site instructions, etc.
• Experience working with Architects.
• Candidate must be able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Registered (or eligible to become registered) with Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.). Applicants are to provide a copy of their Scope of Professional Practice with their application. Registration in other Canadian provinces would be an additional asset.
• Experience working on multi-discipline projects.
• Industrial (non-commercial) experience is a strong asset but not essential.
• Travel to project sites is usually limited but is required depending on project/client requirements.
• Experience working on various types of design contracts including design-bid-build, construction management and design-build.
• Previous consulting experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in site investigations, condition assessments, design and construction support are preferred.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license.

KGS Group is an employee-owned equal opportunity company offering an excellent compensation and benefits package.

KGS Group welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Upon request, KGS Group will provide reasonable accommodation for disabilities to support participation of candidates in all aspects of the recruitment process.