Remote Senior Mechanical Engineer (SME)

About this role

IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE
Position: Senior Mechanical Engineer
Salary: $120K - $160K

Above Group Overview
We offer you the opportunity to put your passion and your God given talents and abilities to use. Our goal is to attract and develop skilled, called, and passionate people to impact our devoted customers and our team. We want to attract immensely creative employees with an ability to inspire, motivate, and challenge others.
We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that supports the well-being of our team. Our offerings include medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and disability coverage; employer-funded HSA contributions; and an annual profit-sharing bonus that reflects our organization’s success as a result of our team’s collective achievements across projects.
For more information, see www.abovegroupinc.com.
Our People Strategy
We believe in a people strategy to be the fundamental driver of our organization. While we can never reach a perfect organizational model, we can certainly strive towards it in our daily efforts and mission. With that vision comes a focus of key initiatives we are working on, listed here, with the indicators of what it should look like as we approach:

• Shared Direction: A collective understanding of what the organization stands for, where it is going, and how we will get there. Indicators: a clear inspiring vision, well-executed strategies, clear aligned goals.

• Authentic Values: Deeply held principles guiding all decisions and relationships and reflected in the conduct of everyone at all times. Indicators: high levels of trust and communications, uncompromising integrity and ethics, socially responsible practices.

• Productive Relationships: Open, collaborative relationships that recognize and honor the commitments that people make to themselves, each other, their work, and the organization. Indicators: respect for all individuals, effective problem solving and decision-making, clear accountability, effective teamwork at all levels.

• Liberating Processes: Flexible structures, processes, and technologies that allow people to do their best work and to collaborate effectively across boundaries. Indicators: clear organizational design, collective knowledge, the right tools and technologies, the right people for the right jobs.

• Outcome Learning: Results-focused learning that strengthens individual and organizational capacity to cope with the present and define the future. Indicators: continuous teaching and learning, effective knowledge and skills development, leadership development at all levels.

• Motivating Metrics: Fair, meaningful performance requirements, measures and rewards that reinforce high performance and manage poor performance. Indicators: clear and energizing performance requirements, relevant work measures, differentiated rewards.

Our Vision – What We Want to Do
Continuously improving the built environment for the glory of God.
Our Mission – Why We Exist
Demonstrating the love of Jesus Christ through empowering excellent AEC professionals to provide superior service.
Our Values – How We Will Accomplish This Mission
Our Core Values are the tools we use and the behaviors we exhibit as Employees of Above Group. They describe how we work together to achieve this special place we’re developing and how they make us uniquely successful.

• Christian Values - We demonstrate humility, honesty, integrity, respect, kindness, and a sense of social responsibility.

• Uncompromising Quality – We provide excellent results all the time, every time.

• Buffalo – We take initiative running toward and owning challenges.

• Extreme Team – We are accountable to each other to continuously grow and succeed.

Senior Mechanical Engineer
The Position
The Senior Mechanical Engineer for Above Group performs and provides engineering services for design and construction of projects along with delegating tasks to complete the designs of each project for the Firm. The Senior Mechanical Engineer shall possess a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent, from an ABET accredited institution. This individual shall directly contribute to the Firm and its success through the application of knowledge and technical experience to effectively produce a quality design and ultimate product to the customer. The Senior Mechanical Engineer is also responsible for contributing to the growth of the team by leading and mentoring subordinate staff in expanding their capabilities and contributions.
General Duties

• Responsible for the technical quality of the design of all projects to which they are assigned.

• Responsible for the on-time delivery of all deliverables, which meet AG submission requirements for all projects to which they are assigned. This includes completion of QA/QC process.

• Delegate tasks and assignments across projects to meet deadlines and coordinate staffing efficiently. This will be done using AG’s planning system, Team Gantt. Coordinate design elements with other disciplines.

• Facilitate and engage with new clients in support of business development activities, as requested.

• Interface with clients to ensure their needs and requirements for projects are met.

• Review shop drawing submittals and ensure compliance with contract documents.

• Perform site investigations to ensure the project is being executed to proper standard and expectations of the company and clients’ needs and desires.

• Ensure compliance and safety standards are met.

• Be able to resolve problems utilizing engineering principles.

• Provide mentorship towards new onboarding designers and jr. engineers.

• Meet with respective co-workers weekly, bi-weekly and monthly to stay up to date on project changes and requests.

• Provide a clear line of communication across projects and engineering departments.

• Maintain proper documentation of project information using Newforma Konekt.

• Conduct peer review and editing on projects for proper…