Mechanical Design Manager
San Jose, CAJobSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Job overview
The Mechanical Design Manager coordinates with project managers, design teams, and design builders from project initiation through completion. The role also works with the Maintenance Operation Team to evaluate specified equipment and influence future designs and specifications to reduce costs. The position supports Apple’s workplace and facilities organization, which manages real estate, construction, site services, sustainability, and facility health and safety.
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Full job description
Role Number: 200691791-3749
Summary
In Places, we don’t sit back and let things happen, we make things happen and we do this in service to all Apple employees and customers. Our team is a diverse and forward-thinking group that manages Apple’s workplaces and workplace service. We develop and run Apple’s global real estate portfolio, lead all related capital construction projects, providing outstanding facilities and site services, develop and lead sustainability initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of all Apple facilities, including commute and renewable energy programs, and do everything we can to ensure the health and safety of all Apple personnel, facilities, and customers in our facilities around the world!
Description
You will have close coordination with project managers, design team, and design builders from project initiation through the completion of the project. You will also interface with Maintenance Operation Team to evaluate the equipment specified and influence future design and specifications to reduce future costs.
Minimum Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree in an Engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
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7+ years of experience in a Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) construction, engineering, or design capacity.
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Demonstrated experience in the design and construction of laboratory facilities.
Preferred Qualifications
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Active Professional Engineer (PE) license.
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Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with a proven ability to partner effectively with project managers, design teams, and operations units at all levels.
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Highly adaptable and agile, with the ability to pivot quickly and manage shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment.
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Ability to provide high-level technical guidance and strategic recommendations on electrical systems and infrastructure.
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Experience with PLC and DDC building management systems, including the ability to lead design discussions and review sequences of operations.
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Experience overseeing commissioning agents, including reviewing and approving commissioning plans and reports.
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Strong strategic mindset with a commitment to making decisions that uphold the organization's long-term interests, facility standards, and operational excellence.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,046 open Construction Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$125–180K/yr146 salary ranges
- US median$24–29/hr210 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 186 open Construction Management jobs in California and 3,046 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Construction Management postings that state a minimum ask for 8 years at the median (2,421 postings).
- Education
- 792 of the 3,046 open Construction Management jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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