# Lead Mechanical Engineer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: South Jordan, UT
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead Mechanical Engineer to join our team in South Jordan, UT, with potential opportunities in Tucson, AZ; Phoenix, AZ; or Reno, NV. As a Lead Mechanical Engineer, you will manage all aspects of the piping engineering discipline, leading small to large projects and interacting with project teams, clients, subcontractors, and construction contractors.

**Your Impact**

- Develop, plan, evaluate, and recommend solutions for complex problems in collaboration with the department manager.

- Prepare proposals, discipline estimates, design deliverables, calculations, drawings, specifications, and engineering documentation.

- Supervise junior and mid-level mechanical engineers and designers, ensuring timely, accurate, and high-quality work.

- Conduct troubleshooting at operating mines, oil and gas plants, heavy industrial plants, and water treatment facilities.

- Utilize knowledge of slurry pipelines, tailings systems, concentrate lines, and mine infrastructure.

- Apply expertise in abrasion-resistant materials and corrosion mitigation strategies.

- Support the design of pump stations and process plant tie-ins, including piping and pipeline system design.

- Perform hydraulic calculations using Excel, AFT, or similar software, and pipe stress analysis using CAESAR II or AutoPIPE.

- Demonstrate competence in AutoCAD, Revit, or other design programs.

- Prepare and review line lists, valve lists, tie-point lists, and equipment schedules.

- Travel for meetings and site visits as required, approximately 10%-15%.

**Who You Are**

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.

- Professional Engineer (P.E.) license in at least one US state.

- 7-10+ years of experience in an EPCM or similar company.

- Excellent written and oral communication skills.

- Ability to work effectively with customers and vendors.

- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and specialized software packages.

- Knowledge of industry codes such as ASME, API.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Master's or PhD in Mechanical Engineering.

- Project Management experience or PMP certification.

- Design-Build project execution experience.

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Piping Engineering
- Project Management
- AutoCAD
- Revit
- CAESAR II
- AutoPIPE
- Microsoft Office
- ASME
- API

### Nice to have
- MS Degree or PhD in Mechanical Engineering
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
- Design-Build project execution experience

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