Senior Plumbing Engineering Design Professional

Celebrating our 70th anniversary in 2025, HOK is a collective of future‑forward thinkers and designers who are driven to face the critical challenges of our time. We are dedicated to improving people’s lives, serving our clients and healing the planet. Together, we cultivate a culture of design excellence at the confluence of art and science, blending the power of creative expression with a clear sense of purpose.

Application must include resume.

• Looks for ways to improve engineering design and design processes in a particular discipline.
• Able to guide the development of Revit tools to improve productivity.

• Development of typical details, specifications, and drawing standards, including development of Revit standards in coordination with the BIM team.
• Keeping abreast of industry and technology changes and trends, and recommend changes in approach and services as appropriate.
• Improvement of analytic processes and documentation, common solutions, and critical solutions.
• Fosters a commitment to external and internal client service.

• 90% time devoted to the engineering of projects, particularly large or complex projects.
• Responsibility for the project engineering of large projects from concept and schematic design through construction documents to construction and commissioning.
• Provide design inputs and reviews of other engineers’ projects.
• Develops, modifies and reviews Revit models of plumbing and fire suppression systems and components according to governing codes, established standards and Revit modeling techniques, based on input from the plumbing engineering team. Creates project drawings from the Revit model.
• Develops flow diagrams, riser diagrams, control diagrams, equipment schedules, details, and similar project documents using Revit.
• Organizes and maintains Revit models and design documents for multiple projects.
• Develops plumbing and fire protection system specifications.
• Prepares calculations necessary for the plumbing and fire suppression systems design.
• Attend meetings with clients and promote positive client contact with current or prospective clients.
• Participate as a team member, contributing ideas and possible solutions, and leading on issues where appropriate.
• Perform site visit surveys to determine engineering strategies for renovation, and to document and evaluate existing systems.
• Visit project sites during construction for reviews of quality, progress, and compliance with specifications and standards.
• Project reviews at all stages of design.
• Works closely with project team and assists to complete projects on aggressive schedules.
• Responsible for the quality and timely delivery of the projects to budget.
• Mentoring of less experienced engineering staff on projects.

• Quality of design solutions, as measured by level of integration, unique solutions, achieving high sustainability goals, and recognition by peers as excellence.
• The quality of work produced, as measured by completeness of design, absence of change orders, and client satisfaction.
• Cohesiveness of the discipline team, as evidenced by ease and amount of work share, consistency of quality and delivery tools and standards, including drawings and specifications, and team communication.

• Ability to engineer and deliver projects over $100 million.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple practices across HOK’s organization.
• Must be able to communicate clearly both verbally and in written form, with an understanding of industry communication protocols.
• Project team leadership skills.
• Strong multi-disciplinary project team leadership.
• Ability to teach and mentor others.
• Ability to effectively meet deadlines.
• Ability to work in a team environment.

• Able to work creatively to reach solutions to complex problems.
• Advanced knowledge of engineering principles and practices.
• Advanced knowledge of building codes.
• Ability to design and model plumbing and fire protection systems for large and complex projects.
• Ability to produce drawings, specifications, and…