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Chief Mechanical Engineer

Kirkland, WA 98034

Job Function: Engineering - Mechanical Job Number: 403249

Job Description

Johnson Service Group (JSG) is currently looking for a Chief Mechanical Engineer with one of the world’s most respected design, engineering, and project management consultancies. This is a contract to direct hire opportunity located in Kirkland, WA.

Pay: $80/hour to $95/hour

As a Chief Engineer, you will be responsible for a wide range of tasks from helping define scope and staffing hours for proposals; assigning staff to specific projects; providing technical advice and resources; coordinating with other offices on staffing and expertise; checking and approving calculations and documents; ensuring our quality assurance standards are met; developing and mentoring members of your group.   
  • Advise and assist members of the mechanical group
  • Support Business development activities as required
  • Assign staff to projects and forecast future staffing requirements
  • Coordinate with Chief Engineers in other disciplines
  • Provide technical resources
  • Ensure projects are supported
  • Work with a multi-discipline team, collaborators, and Clients.
  • Mentor and develop group members
Required Attributes
  • Good communicator
  • Care about people and their goals and aspirations for growth and increased responsibility  
  • Flexible in balancing workload and priorities across multiple projects
  • Strong commitment to safety
  • Desire to maintain and build professional relationships with colleagues, consultants, and Clients
  • Ability to perform clear calculations with schematics, references, and assumptions
  • Experience creating and checking calculations, drawings, and specifications
  • Knowledge of heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid flow
  • Familiar working with ASME B31.1 and ASME Section VIII
  • Basic knowledge of pipe materials, valves, relief valves and control valves
  • Potential occasional travel

Education and Experience
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or similar degree
  • Fifteen (15) years or more working as an engineer
  • Experience in engineering design in the energy sector
  • Experience as technical engineering manager preferred
  • Experience working in engineering design services preferred
  • PE license required

Johnson Service Group, Inc. (JSG) is a North American leader in the staffing and consulting services industry, with over 35 years of experience investing in people and companies.

Johnson Service Group (JSG) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. JSG provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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