Senior Mechanical Engineer

Your opportunity

Are you a driven Mechanical Engineer with strong leadership skills and an expansive network? Do you enjoy the challenge of driving sales, building relationships and fostering technical accountability within a team? Are you a keen observer of the market and competitors and a proactive seeker of new business opportunities? If you enjoy providing world-class engineering consulting services, networking with customers, and thriving in a fast-paced business environment, this opportunity is not just for you, it's a chance for personal and professional growth!

As a Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager for M&E in Eastern Canada, you will drive our company's growth and success. Your role will be pivotal in propelling us forward, riding the wave of entrepreneurship and innovation. You will take charge of sales, consistently seeking opportunities to expand the sales pipeline and ensuring we stay ahead of the market and competition.

This pivotal role demands excellent communication skills, business acumen, and the ability to work collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders. You will be based at our Halifax office.

We offer various flexible work options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life. Join our team of professionals, and let’s grow and succeed together!

What your day will look like

Design & Project Management

• Manage mechanical engineering projects for public and private clients across the company
• Lead and direct multidisciplinary project teams
• Design and build plumbing, drainage, service piping systems, heating, ventilating and air conditioning design, and energy calculations
• Design of piping systems, ventilation and exhaust systems

Business Development

• Manage margins and optimize sales strategies to drive sales revenue, contribute to the company's overall growth, and ensure profitability.
• Develop and execute effective strategies to generate and manage a robust sales pipeline.
• Identify and qualify potential customers to build a strong pipeline.
• Assess the effectiveness of marketing initiatives and measure their impact on sales while ensuring a positive return on marketing investments by allocating resources efficiently.
• Conduct market research to gain insights into industry trends, customer needs, and competitive landscapes. Monitor the competitive landscape and identify opportunities for differentiation.
• Business travel to other Dillon offices upon request.

Learning & Development

• A commitment to self-development and ongoing learning and professional development
• Input to the career development of junior staff, including technical direction, training recommendations, coaching and mentoring
• Contribute to Dillon’s corporate profile through active participation in professional associations and committees

What you will need to succeed

• A degree in mechanical engineering
• Licensed to practice as a professional engineer in Nova Scotia or eligible to be licensed within six months
• A minimum of 10 years’ of relevant work experience

• Expert knowledge of building mechanical systems design codes and standards
• Strong working knowledge in building plumbing, drainage, service piping systems, heating, ventilating and air conditioning design, and energy calculations using proprietary software packages
• Experience in pumping and piping distribution systems, ventilation and exhaust systems for laboratories, machine shops, and process exhaust in commercial settings.
• Demonstrated abilities in direct digital control systems
• Development of design team leadership with the ability to create and manage design budgets, client deliverables and project schedules
• Demonstrated ability to develop proposals
• Demonstrated ability to prepare capital construction cost estimates
• Strong technical report and specification writing skills

Why choose Dillon

Dillon is powered by people who are technically proficient, passionate about socially important projects, and motivated to deliver superior, tangible results. We strive to remain at the forefront of technology and innovation, and are empowered to continually grow and develop.

We live our core values:

• Reliability: words that result in actions build trust;
• Achievement: do the work to hit the target;
• Continuous development: always learning; always adapting; always growing;
• Creativity: discover new possibilities;
• Courage: do the things that matter, especially when it’s hard;
• Inclusiveness: enabling belonging to draw strength from our differences

In addition, we offer:

• Employee share purchase plan
• Dillon is 100% employee owned and share ownership is open to all full-time regular employees
• A competitive compensation package
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Generous retirement savings plan
• Student loan repayment assistance with matching employer contributions
• Flexible work hours 
• Dillon values its staff and the contributions that are made each day and understands that work arrangements can differ based on personal needs and business needs.  We are taking a trust-based approach to offer a variety of flexible work options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.
• Learning and Development opportunities
• As a knowledge-based business, the organic growth of our knowledge and skills occur through our work performance and roles. The creation and sharing of knowledge allows us to take local knowledge to scale, capture lessons learned through experience, and continuously improve service delivery. The development of self and others is an evident and measured core behaviour within our organization
• We use a composite approach to development including coaching to build the how, mentoring to share lessons, advising to round out perspectives, and co-creation of knowledge through internal learning opportunities
• Focus on Innovation
• The ability to anticipate, examine, and adopt new and innovative solutions is a crucial driver for the continual and progressive advancement of our business performance. In our culture, people are empowered to reflect and question current practices and seek forward looking solutions to today’s problems and tomorrow’s opportunities
• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
• A variety of EFAP tools and online resources to support well-being are available to all employees
• Wellness Subsidy
• Our employees can take advantage of wellness subsidy that can be put towards expenses for a variety of health and/or wellness related activities such as gym membership, purchase of home fitness equipment, yoga classes  and dance classes

About Dillon

Dillon is a proudly Canadian, employee-owned, professional consulting firm specializing in planning, engineering, environmental science and management. We partner with clients to provide committed, collaborative, and inventive solutions to complex, multi-faceted projects. With over 22 offices and more than 1100 employees across Canada, Dillon offers a wide range of services related to building and improving facilities and infrastructure, protecting the environment, and developing communities.

Now operating for over 75 years, we continue to strive for excellence in everything we do. Dillon has been listed as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for the past 18 years and has the distinction of having achieved Platinum Club member status in this program.

Employment Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Dillon:

Dillon is committed to the principles of employment equity, inclusiveness, and diversity within our organization. We strive to achieve a workplace where opportunities are based on skills and abilities and that respects and values differences. 

Inclusion is more than a word to us, it is the way we choose to run our business.

Please connect with us if you require accommodation in the interview process. We would love to hear from you!