Senior Refrigeration Engineer — Full-System Retail DX/TCCO2

Cushing Terrell; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 90,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Annual performance bonus

Job summary

Cushing Terrell is seeking a Refrigeration Engineer or Designer to design and deliver commercial refrigeration systems for national retail clients across grocery stores, distribution centers, and fuel centers. This is an on-site role based in Boise, Missoula, Minneapolis or Austin, with ~20 active projects across DX, centralized, distributed, and CO2 systems.

You will lead a team of EIT staff, manage schedules, ensure quality, and drive deliverables from concept to construction documents, with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• 5 to 10 years of refrigeration design experience.
• In-depth knowledge of refrigeration systems including standard DX, centralized, distributed, CO2, and advanced hybrid systems.
• Experience developing fees, creating scopes of work, and managing multiple resources to deliver projects on budget and on schedule.
• Intermediate proficiency in AutoCAD or Autodesk MEP Revit (Revit preferred); familiarity with Bluebeam and Microsoft Office.
• Ability to lead design teams and manage design efforts for program-level accounts.
• Strong client communication skills and quality control discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-system commercial refrigeration design from schematic concept through construction documents for retail clients including grocery stores, distribution centers, and fuel centers.
• Consult directly with clients to define functional requirements, develop project scopes, estimate costs and construction timelines, and maintain relationships through project delivery.
• Assign and manage work across a team of EIT staff, balancing workloads across a portfolio of roughly 20 active projects in various design phases.
• Collaborate across disciplines to integrate refrigeration systems into broader building designs and produce coordinated drawings for contractor use.
• Select equipment, prepare specifications, and apply applicable codes and jurisdictional requirements to all deliverables.
• Conduct site visits and lead team meetings to support project progress, EIT development, and client relationship management.
• Perform engineering studies and prepare reports as required by project scope.

Skills

Project management

Team leadership

Client communication

Quality control

Schedule management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

Autodesk Revit

Bluebeam

Microsoft Office

Job description

Cushing Terrell is seeking a Refrigeration Engineer or Designer to design and deliver commercial refrigeration systems for national retail clients across grocery stores, distribution centers, and fuel centers. This is an on-site role based in Boise, Missoula, Minneapolis or Austin, with ~20 active projects across DX, centralized, distributed, and CO2 systems.

You will lead a team of EIT staff, manage schedules, ensure quality, and drive deliverables from concept to construction documents, with