Position Title: HVAC Designer/Engineer
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Pay Rate: $130,000 per year
Position Description:
Seeking an experienced HVAC Designer/Engineer to design, size, and specify heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems for industrial and process facilities. This direct-hire opportunity is ideal for professionals with a design engineering background or hands-on experience in HVAC construction, installation, service, startup, or commissioning.
The successful candidate will support projects from initial load calculations and equipment selection through design development, bidding, submittal review, and commissioning. This role offers the opportunity to apply strong technical expertise while expanding practical project experience through collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, clients, vendors, contractors, and field personnel.
Key Responsibilities:
- Prepare engineering man-hour estimates for HVAC scopes.
- Perform building and room heating and cooling load calculations, including sensible and latent loads, infiltration, solar loads, and envelope considerations.
- Size and select HVAC equipment, including chillers, packaged units, split systems, condensers, cooling towers, heaters, and air-handling systems.
- Prepare equipment specifications, data sheets, contractor work scopes, and supplier requirements.
- Develop HVAC design drawings, including equipment layouts, ductwork, piping, details, and HVAC control P&IDs.
- Evaluate contractor and equipment bids and provide technical recommendations.
- Review and approve equipment submittals for compliance with design intent and project specifications.
- Support HVAC equipment and system commissioning, startup, testing, troubleshooting, and issue resolution.
- Coordinate with mechanical, piping, electrical, structural, and controls disciplines.
- Collaborate with clients, vendors, contractors, and field personnel.
- Participate in field verification, bid walk-downs, and occasional job-site commissioning activities.
Top Requirements:
- 5+ years of HVAC design, engineering, construction, installation, service, startup, or commissioning experience.
- Working knowledge of commercial or industrial HVAC and refrigeration systems.
- Experience with HVAC load calculations, equipment sizing, system selection, and technical specifications.
- Understanding of air-cooled and water-cooled systems, chilled water systems, packaged units, split systems, condensers, chillers, cooling towers, compressors, and industrial heaters.
- Knowledge of psychrometrics, including dry-bulb and wet-bulb temperature, dew point, relative humidity, enthalpy, dehumidification, and sensible versus latent loads.
- Knowledge of ventilation design, air changes per hour, infiltration, mixed-air calculations, humidity control, and industrial building ventilation strategies.
- Experience with duct design and fabrication, including CFM calculations, static regain or constant-velocity methods, and SMACNA requirements.
- Familiarity with refrigerants, including refrigerant blends, GWP, ODP, A2L classifications, and applicable system requirements.
- Knowledge of refrigerant piping, chilled water piping, insulation, and velocity requirements; pipe design experience is a plus.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
- Experience with AutoCAD, AutoCAD MEP, Revit, and Navisworks.
- Experience using HVAC load calculation tools such as Excel-based calculations, CHVAC, Trane, Carrier, or comparable software.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, or equivalent professional experience preferred.
- Industrial or process facility experience preferred.
- PE or EIT certification may be required depending on the position level.
- Ability to work on-site in Birmingham, Alabama, with occasional travel to client facilities and job sites.
- Ability to comply with applicable site safety requirements, PPE standards, and training requirements.
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