Principal Mechanical Engineer

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Principal Mechanical Engineer

Houston,TX, US

13 hours ago

Job Description

Experience: Senior Level
Salary: $200,000 - $300,000 per year

Job Details
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In this highly visible role, you'll serve as the go-to technical expert for advanced mechanical systems, helping drive innovation in cooling technologies, sustainable design, and operational resilience. You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, mentor engineers, and play a key role in expanding a rapidly growing market sector.

What You\'ll Do

• Lead the design and technical direction of advanced cooling and HVAC systems supporting mission-critical environments.
• Develop engineering standards, best practices, and scalable design approaches used across major projects.
• Drive innovative solutions involving chilled water systems, air-cooled technologies, liquid cooling applications, and emerging thermal management strategies.
• Partner with electrical, controls, and construction teams to deliver fully integrated infrastructure solutions.
• Optimize system performance, energy efficiency, and resiliency through thoughtful engineering and design.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, presenting technical solutions and helping guide project strategy.
• Evaluate equipment vendors and emerging technologies to ensure best-in-class solutions.
• Lead design reviews, commissioning strategies, constructability assessments, and technical quality initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to the growth of a world-class technical team.
• Support business development efforts and help expand a fast-growing practice serving critical infrastructure markets.

What We\'re Looking For

• Bachelor\'s Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Professional Engineer (PE) registration preferred.
• Extensive experience designing complex mechanical systems within mission-critical, industrial, utility, energy, advanced manufacturing, or similar environments.
• Strong understanding of cooling systems, HVAC infrastructure, redundancy strategies, and reliability-focused design.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering efforts and managing technically challenging projects.
• Ability to communicate effectively with clients, project teams, contractors, and executive stakeholders.
• Background working within EPC, design-build, consulting engineering, or integrated project delivery environments.

A bit about us:

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We are a growing engineering and project delivery firm known for executing complex, high-impact projects across industrial, energy, manufacturing, and mission-critical markets. With a strong reputation for technical excellence and long-term client relationships, this organization offers the opportunity to work alongside industry experts, influence major infrastructure projects, and help solve some of today\'s most challenging engineering problems.

Why join us?

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• Stable, well-established organization with a strong backlog of projects
• Known for taking on technically challenging and highly visible work
• Collaborative culture where senior engineers have a voice and can influence standards and best practices
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge infrastructure, critical facility, and advanced technology projects
• Strong investment in employee development and technical growth
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams on large-scale projects from concept through commissioning
• Entrepreneurial environment where technical leaders help shape the future direction of the business

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