Healthcare Mechanical Engineer II
Make an Impact
As a Healthcare Mechanical Engineer II, you will support our Health and Wellness team working on a variety of project types and sizes. You will have the opportunity to support plumbing, med-gas, and fire protection design as well as performing calculations, providing equipment selection, and supplying construction assistance for submittals and RFI’s. This role will entail a high level of collaboration with other internal disciplines, external consultants, and clients or owner’s representatives.
Deliver Results
- Prepare building models, detailed contract documents, construction documents, load analysis, equipment sizing, ductwork sizing, hydronic system design, plumbing design, fire suppression design, and specifications consistent with Progressive AE’s standards.
- Establish meetings and participate in reviews with various governing agencies for code compliance.
- Determine and promote the best use of design software/technology, including Revit, AutoCAD, BSD Speclink and other emerging technologies, for presentation and production purposes.
- Coordinate technical components of projects with other internal disciplines and outside consultants to ensure that conflicts do not exist in the documents.
- Assist with engineering proposals and monitoring project budget and schedule.
Required Qualifications
- Associate's Degree in engineering, drafting, or related field.
- Minimum 5 years of post-graduate mechanical engineering design experience, including a strong background with healthcare projects.
- Ability to obtain Professional Engineer (PE) license.
- Strong proficiency with Revit.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
- Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) with current license.
- Experience with acute care, surgery centers, or behavioral health projects.
- Certified in Plumbing Design (CPD), ASSE 6060 Designer, or CSI-CDT.
- LEED AP BD+C and WELL AP certification.
- Membership at organizations such as American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE), Healthcare Engineering Alliance Society (HEALS), or similar and their local chapters.
- NCEES registration or NSPE membership.
- Experience in Microsoft Project, SharePoint, and Teams.
People Matter
Each individual’s background, knowledge, ability, and experience contributes to strengthening our organization and projects. Our dedication to diversity includes company provided training and education, equitable recruitment, a grassroots employee DEI committee, and robust community partnerships.
Progressive Companies is comprised of people with a variety of abilities, races, colors, religions, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, ages, veteran statuses, and more. As an equal opportunity employer, we believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential elements of innovative design. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
Transforming Spaces. Empowering People.
The talented professionals of Progressive Companies are designers of a bold new future, creating high-performance structures and pathways, delivering on today’s needs and preparing for what’s to come. We live by the idea that design isn’t simply about beauty, it’s about improving strategic outcomes—what we call Performance Based Design. Our work spans across the nation, allowing team members to work on a variety of exciting projects and maximize impact as trusted partners to our clients and communities.
Sustainable and Inclusive
We are dedicated to human-centered, sustainable, and inclusive design practices. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to building trust, respect, and truly innovative design making spaces welcoming and accessible to all. Our sustainability approach embraces the AIA 2030 Commitment, together with a range of high performance, restorative, and regenerative strategies with a focus on climate responsive results to maximize positive impact in our industry.
Employee Owned
We act like owners—because we are. From modest beginnings of four original engineering partners in 1962, to almost 300 architects, engineers, designers, and consultants across multiple regional offices today, the energy, resourcefulness, and entrepreneurial mindset you expect from a CEO come standard with every team member.
Culture of Excellence
The firm is continually ranked as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation®, with comprehensive benefits including an award-winning wellness program, hybrid work schedule, summer hours, profit-sharing, and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). We take our work seriously, but have fun along the way, which fuels the creative spirit and supports a focus on work and life integration.
Progressive Companies is committed to development and growth of team members through continuing education, mentorship, growth opportunities, and more. We are dedicated to giving back to our communities, with paid service-learning hours available to every employee and corporate sponsorship for a wide range of community organizations and activities.
Other details
- Job Family Mechanical Engineering
- Job Function Engineer
- Pay Type Salary
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA