Senior Mechanical Engineer - Federal
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Job overview
Jacobs seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer to lead mechanical and plumbing design for large federal facilities. The role oversees engineering teams, coordinates designs across trades, and takes responsibility for project completeness, accuracy, and timeliness. Work includes HVAC and plumbing systems, construction administration, field investigations, and client communication, while supporting the professional growth of team members.
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Full job description
At Jacobs our Senior Mechanical Engineers lead a range of skills as part of an integrated building services design. The mechanical team at Jacobs is consistently tasked with defining mechanical & plumbing solutions to aid our client’s in fulfilling their complicated mission.
The engineering team leads are responsible for leading a talented team in system design for large Federal facilities across the United States and around the world. This leader must have a broad knowledge of how mechanical HVAC systems are designed. . The engineers also coordinate their designs with other trades (architectural and engineering / internal and external). The Engineer takes ownership of the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of the projects working in conjunction with a technical team consisting of EITs, designers and drafters. The engineer is responsible for signing work done under their supervision. As the team leader you will also be responsible for the professional growth of your team.
Our department is a great place for continuing your career with several technical subject matter experts. These people enjoy guiding and mentoring our mechanical engineers to their next career steps within the company. Our department is tasked with designing mechanical systems to meet our customers needs. The designs require the application of mechanical engineering design in unique ways to solve our client’s HVAC needs. Mechanical and plumbing system designs encompass chillers, boilers, radiant heating systems, natural gas distribution, and compressed air generation.
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Lead design and engineering teams
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Be responsible for scheduling, projecting manpower requirements, and budgets
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Leadership in execution of projects
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Technical understanding of plumbing, water and air side HVAC systems.
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Perform construction administration and field investigation tasks for assigned projects including conducting field inspections and subsequent detailed inspection reports
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Proficiency designing with UFCs, UFGS and other Federal delivery requirements
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Familiar with LEED and USGBC Guiding principles
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Communicate technical advice and engineering reasoning to client
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Direct work of engineers and coordination with other trades
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Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) or Bachelor Degree in Architectural Engineering (BSAE) required
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Required at least 10 years HVAC and Plumbing experience working in a consulting engineering environment
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Professional Engineer License
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Revit experience
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US Citizenship is required
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How this job compares
Set against the 7,319 open Mechanical Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$126–180K/yr960 salary ranges
- California median$54–56/hr32 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,209 open Mechanical Engineer jobs in California and 7,319 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Mechanical Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 6,170 postings).
- Education
- 5,016 of the 7,319 open Mechanical Engineer jobs (69%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 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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