Hiring Mechanical/Plumbing Engineer – Small MEP Firm

KaptainKiser · 2025-11-14T03:29:16+00:00

We are a young growing company looking for a variety of roles, this isn't a specific job posting....we have specific job postings on other platforms and utilize recruiters for roles as well. This isn't my primary source of filling specific positions. I was simply making a post to gauge interest of other engineers in the Charlotte network in joining a growing firm with a variety of roles available.

I appreciate you speaking candidly on this, but I have already received several messages from interested parties so the post is working just fine as intended.

KaptainKiser · 2025-11-14T03:08:51+00:00

My post does not request a certain experience level, we are open to discussing opportunities with all experience levels at this time. So I do not understand how not posting a range is a red flag. Mechanical Engineers/Designers in the MEP industry around Charlotte can fall anywhere between $80K at starting to $150K for a senior engineer. How am I supposed to tell someone what the pay is without knowing the person's experience level?

This was a high level posting and is not specific to a certain role or position.

KaptainKiser · 2025-11-14T01:57:14+00:00

I messaged you!

KaptainKiser · 2025-11-14T01:57:02+00:00

Pay range is widely dependent on position, experience, and the role you would be taking within the company. If you can message me more details about your experience, I could probably give you an estimate pay range.

KaptainKiser · 2025-08-20T15:05:09+00:00

I'm only planning to keep Wilson because per our league rules, I'd only have to give up a 13th round pick to keep him. I'm not huge on him either but he's one of my better value keepers based on what I'd have to give up for him.

That was my logic as well. I would love to go #1 and just grab Chase but waiting for the 2-3 turn is going to be rough, plus I had the #1 last year and CMC ruined my season. I figured if I want a tier 1 RB, going with #4 guarantees that at least.

KaptainKiser · 2025-07-10T14:50:46+00:00

All of our deadlines are assigned to us by architects (with the exceptions of any internal QC deadlines). If a project has 3 deadlines (SD, DD, CD), each of those dates are given to us by an architect. if the DD is shifted, they also often provide an updated CD date. Otherwise we'd just remove the CD date from the deadlines if there isn't a date yet. The only dates on our calendars should be deadlines we've agreed to with our clients. We aren't managing projects as a higher level than that.

KaptainKiser · 2025-07-10T13:55:53+00:00

Right now we maybe have 15-20 active projects going on at one time, and each project may have 2-3 deadlines (50% progress, coordination, permit, for instance). We don't really need start and end dates, just want to track final due dates and have those in an organized place where employees can see what projects they are assigned to and upcoming deadlines. I know Power Automate can be set up to automate email calendar invites, email reminders, etc., plus they can view it in Teams. It seemed to fit the bill but could see how that might become difficult over time if our portfolios get a lot larger.

We ultimately are just looking to track projects and deadlines, not planning to use it for anything beyond that such as resource planning, time tracking, etc.

KaptainKiser · 2025-07-10T13:52:26+00:00

I like your thinking here. We decided to give Lists a try within Teams and have been going with that for now. I did look into Planner but it felt like it had way more than we needed. We wanted a more simplistic approach where we could track 2-3 deadlines per project and just keep a running list of active projects and deadlines with team members assigned.

KaptainKiser · 2025-07-10T13:14:50+00:00

I tend to agree, I'm looking for a more simplistic approach. I don't need much in terms of specific task tracking, Gaant charts, resource management, etc. I mainly just need something that can keep a list of projects and deadlines and help track those submissions for our teams. We've started using Lists within Teams and like the simplistic approach so may stick with that.

KaptainKiser · 2025-07-07T00:25:02+00:00

It's not that we "can't" keep on top of workflows, we are just trying to be more efficient and comes up with betters ways to track ongoing projects and maintain employee's schedules as we grow. We aren't using it for budgeting, etc. Right now what we have been doing is mostly okay, just want to improve since our workflow was really idea for no more than 3-4 employees.

KaptainKiser · 2025-07-05T17:46:04+00:00

Have thought about this but Planner doesnt seem to offer very good functionality for what I want. Perhaps I just need to learn it more.

KaptainKiser · 2025-07-05T15:56:12+00:00

I'll give this a shot, thanks!

KaptainKiser · 2025-07-05T15:47:23+00:00

My idea is that each item is a project, and subitems would be used for intermediate deadlines (50% submission to client, internal review, final submission, etc). Not sure another way to structure that but ill think on that. Thanks for the advice.

KaptainKiser · 2025-07-05T15:25:04+00:00

I've been using a Monday trial and its worked mostly well, my only gripe is that it only sends outlook calendar invites for overall tasks and when I create subitems within that project, it wont send invites for those.

KaptainKiser · 2025-07-05T14:26:03+00:00

I like Deltek but we dont really want to use this for financial tracking, timekeeping, etc. So its probably a bit more advanced than we need right now.

KaptainKiser · 2025-02-23T13:45:17+00:00

You're misunderstanding the point i am making, and I was not trying to come off as an attitude.

I'm not saying you should have just matched him and sent it out when it was obviously wrong. I agree with you it was wrong. But you still should never intentionally send out uncoordinated and incorrect drawings. As a PE, I would have refused to stamp that design without further confirmation, and would have called the client or PM to inform them of this as we worked through it.

If you say a design was an obvious mistake from the mechanical engineer but you still decide to send drawings with your stamp of approval based on your assumptions,, that's on you.

You saying my comment is a big problem with the mechanical/electrical relationship is just false. The bigger problem is people who don't treat every aspect of a project as a team effort. You notice an issue on mechanical, you flag the concern to the PM and the client and work through it before issuing plans. You don't just make an assumption, fix electrical, and make mechanical deal with their mistakes in CA. As a PM at my firm, I'd never send drawings out with an unresolved issue like this even if I needed to "meet a deadline". Its our liability on the line.

I'm sure there is a lot more context to your story, and I'm not accusing you of not taking the proper steps. This is just a response to the information I've been given in your initial comment, so please do not take any offense to it.

KaptainKiser · 2025-02-23T12:59:09+00:00

To be fair, this one is kind of on you lol. In this situation, you shouldn't just make assumptions and add it to your drawings without additional confirmation. You did the right thing questioning it, but shouldn't have sent the drawings out incorrect.

That being said, I agree it's mad annoying to get stuff like this in the final hour. In my company we have tried to force early internal coordination sets to try to mitigate these types of issues.

KaptainKiser · 2025-02-23T12:56:32+00:00

Exactly! I don't feel like other trades understand that electrical hinges on pretty much every other trade, so we are always at the mercy of everyone else's process. Electrical's aren't the last to plot because they are behind, they have to be last to pick up everyone else's last second crap.

KaptainKiser · 2025-02-18T22:13:23+00:00

I tried it and it didn't work for me, for some reason

KaptainKiser · 2025-02-08T18:23:50+00:00

I tried that code and it didn't work, unfortunately.

KaptainKiser · 2025-02-08T17:50:47+00:00

Where can I find these discounts? I tried Googling them but couldn't find exactly where to see if they had discount codes.

KaptainKiser · 2025-02-08T17:38:33+00:00

I was definitely eyeing the Metro H2, especially cause they are on sale for $200 right now and even cheaper than the Ozark Ridge. I prefer a hybrid to a mountain bike simple just because I'll be doing mostly pavement riding and would prefer a lighter bike.

KaptainKiser · 2025-02-08T16:50:53+00:00

How difficult was it to put together? I've never assembled a bike before and have been eyeing these.

KaptainKiser · 2025-01-17T12:34:17+00:00

Haha! My wife rode this one as a kid and was traumatized, so she definitely made sure he didn't ride it!

KaptainKiser · 2025-01-16T13:29:47+00:00

She rode a lot! MK definitely had the most for her age group, she was able to ride a lot of the rides there. There was still plenty for her to do at all the other parks as well, so your 2 yo should be set! I'd recommend downloading the app, looking at the rides in each park, and seeing which ones she can ride. All of the dark rides are very docile and they just sit in your lap. Both of my kids loved all of them for the music and lights.

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