THE OPPORTUNITY
- Step into a fast-growing engineering group with the backing of an $8 billion public company. This is a small, entrepreneurial engineering unit inside a large, stable organization, real autonomy over your work, with real resources behind you.
- This is not consulting engineering. The firm designs and self-performs its own restoration projects nationwide, no architect-driven production packages, no throwing a design over the fence to someone else to build.
- What you design here gets built, not filed away. You carry a project from field data to a finished result, and you're trusted to make the call along the way.
- Travel that respects your life. This is not a road-warrior role. Expect occasional national midweek travel, supplemented by digital remote site walkthroughs that cut travel even further.
- A genuine, not aspirational, growth path. The engineering department is scaling nationally right now. Someone joining at this stage gets direct access to engineering leadership and a real hand in shaping how the department runs for years to come.
- Work on unique challenges of real equipment. The projects involve restoring/renovating existing HVAC systems in hospitals, universities, manufacturing plants, and other mission-critical facilities for maximum impact rather than simply “value engineering” new builds to drive cost down.
- A connected team, not a silo. Engineers here work directly with estimating, field operations, project management and sales. You'll never be stuck three layers removed from the people actually running the project.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Review field engineers' performance assessment reports and validate the data before design work begins.
- Specify and design air handling unit restorations, fan array selection, coil replacement, and temporary conditioning plans for facilities that can't afford downtime.
- Oversee production of AutoCAD drawings and engineering packages for restoration projects.
- Support estimating, operations, and sales, join customer calls as the engineering voice that gives building owners confidence in the plan.
- Participate in occasional site visits and field investigations, along with remote digital assessments.
- Help build the internal engineering standards, templates, and tools the department will run on as it grows nationally.
THE RIGHT CANDIDATE
Education & Technical Skills
- A Bachelor's degree in Engineering is required: Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, or Architectural Engineering preferred; other engineering degrees (Civil, Structural, Electrical) with genuine, demonstrated mechanical depth are also considered.
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience is required. Candidates who are an Engineer Intern (EI/EIT) rather than a licensed PE are welcome and encouraged to apply: a PE is a plus, not a requirement, for this role.
- Hands-on proficiency in AutoCAD is required.
- Direct experience with existing-building HVAC systems and retrofit work is required. This is not a new-construction design role.
- A genuine, conversational command of HVAC fundamentals (pumping schemes, VFD controls, coil and fan selection) is required.
- Experience with energy-modeling software (such as Trane Trace, EnergyGauge, or COMcheck) is a meaningful plus.
- A background with a design-build contractor or an organization with in-house engineering is a strong plus.
- Experience with healthcare, data center, or other mission-critical facilities is a plus.
Personal Traits & Attributes
- An ownership mentality: you talk about your work as yours, not something assigned to you, and you take responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks.
- A bias toward action: comfortable moving quickly and course-correcting rather than over-polishing before showing your work.
- A genuinely collaborative style: you don't retreat into a narrow lane when something outside your desk needs solving.
- A builder's mindset: you get real satisfaction from making something repeatable for whoever picks it up next, not just finishing the task in front of you.
- A real curiosity about older equipment, not just new builds.
- Able and willing to travel about once a month, midweek nights only
- Willing to live/relocate to the Tampa area – this is NOT a remote role