# Senior Mechanical Engineer - Technical Manager - Tunnel Ventilation & Fire-Life Safety

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: New York, NY
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer - Technical Manager - Tunnel Ventilation & Fire-Life Safety to join our Tunnel Systems Team in New York City.

This role combines rigorous analysis with practical design of tunnel ventilation and fire-life safety systems for major road, rail, transit, and other underground infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities:

- Lead and perform analysis and design of tunnel ventilation, smoke-control, and fire-life safety systems.

- Develop ventilation concepts, operating modes, and design criteria for various scenarios.

- Perform engineering calculations for airflow, pressure losses, fan duty, equipment sizing, heat and contaminant control, and system performance.

- Build, review, and interpret models using tools like SES, IDA Tunnel, ANSYS Fluent, and FDS.

- Translate analysis results into coordinated, buildable designs.

- Prepare and review technical documents, reports, calculations, specifications, drawings, and design packages.

- Apply relevant project criteria and standards.

- Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams.

- Support client meetings, technical workshops, field investigations, and system testing.

- Plan discipline work, manage scope, schedule, and budget, and provide technical direction.

- Contribute to proposals and growth of WSP's tunnel systems practice.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related field.

- 10+ years of relevant engineering experience.

- Professional Engineer license in New York or ability to obtain.

- Experience with ventilation systems for road tunnels, rail tunnels, or transit facilities.

- Proficiency with tunnel airflow or CFD platforms.

- Experience with engineering calculations, technical reports, and design criteria.

- Ability to lead technical tasks and deliver high-quality work.

- Excellent communication skills.

- Legal authorization to work in the United States.

Preferred qualifications:

- Master's degree or PhD in mechanical engineering or related field.

- Experience with testing and commissioning tunnel ventilation systems.

- Programming or data-analysis experience.

- Experience mentoring engineers or leading small technical teams.

## Skills

### Required
- mechanical engineering
- tunnel ventilation
- fire-life safety
- SES
- IDA Tunnel
- ANSYS Fluent
- FDS

### Nice to have
- Python
- Visual Basic
- C/C++
- Fortran
- data analysis

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