Plumbing Designer

Freese and Nichols; San Antonio (TX); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled plumbing designer to join their dynamic mechanical and plumbing team. In this pivotal role, you'll leverage your extensive experience to lead diverse projects, ensuring exceptional service delivery from inception to completion. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical knowledge and leadership skills, working collaboratively with a talented team to meet client needs in the water and wastewater sector. With a commitment to innovation and quality, this firm offers a flexible work environment, including a hybrid schedule and various perks that enhance work-life balance. Join a company that values integrity, teamwork, and continuous learning.

Benefits

Paid Overtime

Annual Bonus

Access to Company Cabins

Flexible Work Environment

Alternative Work Schedule

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in plumbing design required.
• Strong technical proficiency in plumbing design per industry standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead plumbing designer for commercial and light industrial projects.
• Perform design calculations and maintain effective client communication.

Skills

Plumbing Design Knowledge

Leadership Abilities

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Teamwork

Organizational Skills

Education

CPD or CPDT Certification

PE License in Texas

Tools

Revit

Job description

Freese and Nichols, Inc. is seeking an experienced plumbing designer to join our growing mechanical and plumbing team.

Our Mechanical and Plumbing team provides a wide variety of services to the water and wastewater industry, municipal, government, federal, educational facilities, commercial, and private practice clients. As a plumbing designer, you will leverage your technical experience to successfully execute and deliver projects from inception to final client submittal, with occasional minimal construction phase services. In this role, you will work with multi-discipline and highly interactive teams to deliver study, design, and construction phase services to our clients. To be successful in this role, you should demonstrate strong plumbing design knowledge, leadership abilities, interpersonal skills, communication skills, teamwork, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities:

1. Serve as lead plumbing designer for projects such as commercial, light industrial, facilities, along with plumbing design support for pump stations, treatment plants, and drainage structures.
2. Perform and review design calculations, and understand plumbing design principles.
3. Maintain effective communication with client and client’s staff, when necessary, with regulatory agencies and within project teams.
4. Participate in project development activities including engineering scope and fee preparation, proposal preparation. Also, a commitment to client service for both internal and external clients.
5. Eagerly and proactively seek answers and assistance necessary to perform tasks and meet deadlines within budget.
6. Occasional travel to client or project sites.

Qualifications

Required:

1. 10+ years’ experience in Plumbing Design.

Preferred:

1. CPD or CPDT Certification.
2. PE License in the State of Texas.
3. Fire Protection Design experience.
4. Revit software experience.

Key Skills and Attributes:

1. Ability to self-direct and work on multiple assignments at once while meeting project deliverable dates and completing other task-driven assignments.
2. Ability to lead, motivate, and manage a project team and oversee excellent quality of work.
3. Demonstrate technical proficiency in plumbing design per industry standards (ASPE, IPC, NFPA).
4. Excellent written and oral communication skills.

About Freese and Nichols

At the heart of our culture is our LEADS values (Learn continuously, Engage as family, Act with integrity, Deliver quality, and Serve always). Each year, our employee engagement survey confirms that our leaders and our employees live our values.

We strive to be the firm of choice for clients and employees through innovative approaches, practical results, and outstanding service. For more than 130 years, we have been planning and designing the infrastructure our communities need: developing water supplies, designing roadways and bridges, preparing for natural disasters, and much more.

Besides our comprehensive benefits package (see more at https://www.freese.com/services/benefits-that-work/), we offer paid overtime for salaried employees, an annual bonus, and access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico. We are proud of our flexible work environment which includes a hybrid schedule with up to 40% of remote work, and an alternative work schedule program which provides a day off every other Friday.

Join our team of 1,200+ employees as we grow from Virginia to Colorado. Learn more about working here at https://www.freese.com/careers/.

Freese and Nichols is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based on his or her age, race, color, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, citizenship, or because he or she is an individual with a disability, protected veteran or other status protected by federal, state, and local laws.

We recognize that our workforce reflects the increasingly diverse nature of our society, and we strive to take advantage of that diversity with both our external and internal customers. As a Federal Contractor, Freese and Nichols is an equal employment, affirmative action employer.