Job: HVAC Designer
Location: Birmingham, AL (onsite only - relocation is possible)
Genesis Technical Staffing is seeking a mechanical designer with HVAC design skills. This position is temp-to-perm, full-time, with benefits offered.
Location: Birmingham, AL
Onsite Only
Relocation is possible
Genesis Technical Staffing is seeking a mechanical designer with HVAC design skills. This position is temp-to-perm, full-time, with benefits offered.
Location: Birmingham, AL
Onsite Only
Relocation is possible.
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Responsibilities
- Prepare engineering man-hour estimates for HVAC scopes.
- Perform building and room heating and cooling load calculations.
- Size and select HVAC equipment, and prepare equipment specifications and data sheets.
- Produce HVAC design drawings, including layouts, ductwork, piping and details, and HVAC control P&IDs.
- Write HVAC work scopes for contractors and equipment suppliers.
- Evaluate equipment and contractor bids technically, and make recommendations.
- Review and approve HVAC equipment submittals against the design intent and project specifications.
- Support commissioning of HVAC equipment and systems, including start-up, testing and issue resolution.
- Coordinate with other disciplines (mechanical/piping, electrical, structural, controls) and with clients, vendors and field personnel.
Equipment
- Working knowledge of how an air conditioning and refrigeration system operates; service experience is a plus but not required.
- Air-cooled vs. water-cooled systems, chilled water systems, packaged units and split systems.
- Air-cooled and water-cooled condensers, chillers (air-cooled and water-cooled), and cooling towers and their purpose.
- Compressor types: hermetic, semi-hermetic and screw; and the differences between screw and centrifugal chillers.
- Carbon filter air units and their purpose.
- Heaters: gas, electric, steam, duct-mounted and unit heaters.
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Technical
- Heating and cooling load calculations for a room, building or structure, including infiltration (typically 15% to 25%), U-factors/R-values, solar loads, and sensible and latent loads.
- Determining when a system is sized on sensible vs. latent load, and what increases latent capacity.
- Psychrometrics: dry bulb, wet bulb, dew point, relative humidity, enthalpy, grains per pound of dry air, evaporation and dehumidification, and how they relate.
- Calculating mixed air temperature; conversions among hp, Btu/h and kW; single-phase vs. three-phase power.
- AC control strategies, including what drives dehumidification and how to control humidity.
- Sizing electric heaters by temperature rise vs. temperature differential (envelope loads).
- Air changes per hour for an envelope and ventilation design strategy, including heating and ventilating a warehouse or boiler building.
- Ventilation methods: cross-flow, push-pull and stack effect.
- Duct design and fabrication: SMACNA requirements, CFM, constant velocity and static regain methods, and which fittings can be fabricated and in what configurations.
- Refrigerants: pure vs. blends, GWP, ODP, A2L classification and the requirements for using A2L refrigerants.
- Piping: refrigerant piping types and insulation; chilled water piping material, insulation and velocity.
- Pipe design experience is a plus.
Software
- Microsoft Office: Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- AutoCAD (2D, 3D, MEP) and Revit.
- Navisworks.
- HVAC load calculation tools: Excel spreadsheets, CHVAC, Trane, Carrier and others.
Preferred Background
- Experience on the construction, installation, service or startup side of HVAC, which gives practical knowledge of what can be built and its limitations; or
- Experience on the design/engineering side with strong technical fundamentals.
- Industrial or process facility experience.
Working Conditions
Office-based, with occasional travel to client facilities and job sites for field verification, bid walk-downs and commissioning. Site visits may require appropriate PPE and safety training.
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