[Hiring] Senior Mechanical Engineer @Red Tree Engineering

Role Description

Redtree is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer with deep power plant design experience to lead front-end planning, detailed design, and construction administration for power generation projects, focusing on coal and natural gas-fired power plants, as well as associated balance of plant systems. This role covers the full engineering lifecycle, from front-end planning and preliminary design through final design, construction administration, and startup.

• Serve as technical lead for mechanical scope on assigned power generation projects, setting design direction and quality standards for the team.
• Bring deep, hands-on power plant design experience to bear on complex mechanical systems for coal, natural gas, and combined cycle generation facilities.
• Mentor, train, and develop less experienced engineers, including reviewing their calculations, drawings, and design decisions.
• Manage and lead teams of mechanical engineers to complete assigned activities, including workload planning and task delegation.
• Direct and support project teams and engineering staff overseas as part of Redtree's global CSI network, ensuring consistent design quality and coordination across time zones.
• Perform front-end planning, preliminary design, code analysis, and detailed design for mechanical systems at coal and natural gas fired generation facilities and associated balance of plant systems.
• Design and size mechanical equipment and piping systems, including pumps, blowers, tanks, and vessels, along with hydraulic calculations and valve/pipe material selection.
• Develop and review P&IDs for pumps, vessels, and tanks.
• Support air quality control systems and effluent limitation guideline (ELG) management for generation facilities.
• Prepare final design packages, including bidding documents and specifications, for compliance with applicable mechanical and building codes, industry standards, and client specifications.
• Coordinate with electrical, civil, structural, and project management teams to ensure integrated, constructible designs.
• Support construction administration and startup activities, primarily through remote review of compliance submittals, technical direction, and resolution of construction issues, with occasional site visits as needed.
• Support proposal development, scoping, and schedule estimation for new project pursuits.
• Contribute to project documentation, drawing sets, and technical specifications throughout the project lifecycle (feasibility, preliminary engineering, detailed design, PM/CM, startup/commissioning).
• Lead development-support and owner's-engineer work, such as technical due diligence and design reviews, as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
• 10+ years of hands-on mechanical design experience specifically within the power generation industry, including coal, natural gas, gas-fired, and/or combined cycle power plants.
• Demonstrated track record designing balance-of-plant mechanical systems for power plants (piping, pumps, tanks, vessels, air quality/emissions systems).
• Demonstrated experience mentoring, training, or leading other engineers, including reviewing their technical work.
• Working knowledge of hydraulic calculations, pump/piping selection and sizing, and valve and pipe material selection.
• Familiarity with P&ID development and mechanical equipment condition assessment.
• Understanding of relevant mechanical and environmental/air quality codes and industry standards.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to coordinate across multidisciplinary project teams and represent mechanical scope to clients.
• Willingness to travel to project/construction sites as needed (estimated to be 10-20%).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience formally leading or managing a team of engineers, including staff development and performance feedback.
• Experience directing or coordinating with engineering staff or project teams overseas, or in distributed/multi-time-zone environments.
• Experience with plant modernization, life extension, or uprate projects in addition to new-build work.
• Exposure to development-support, owner's-engineer, or conceptual design work for conventional power projects.
• Experience with lifecycle cost analysis and mechanical equipment condition assessment.

Benefits

• 100% remote work, U.S.-based, with no relocation or office requirement.
• 100% employer-sponsored benefits.
• Direct exposure to the full project lifecycle, from concept through construction and commissioning, rather than a narrow phase or discipline silo.
• A growing, entrepreneurial engineering team partnering with industry-leading clients on mission-critical facilities, power systems, and complex infrastructure.
• Multiple openings across Mid to Senior levels, with the flexibility to match title and compensation to the selected candidate's experience.

Work Authorization

• Must be able to work in the United States without employer sponsorship, now or in the future.