Graduate Mechanical Engineer opportunities available in Summer 2010

Start your career at Arup, the top-listed engineering firm in the 2007 Building Design & Construction Magazine’s “Best AEC Firms to Work For” . . . FROM THE START, a newly-graduated engineer receives:

 • Substantial Engineering Work Assignments

 • A Training Plan for Accelerated Professional Growth

• Work Opportunities That Acknowledge Ability, Not Seat-Time

 • Full Membership in a Global Network of Experts

As Consulting Engineers, where what we “sell” is engineering knowledge in support of architectural excellence, Arup understands that each person’s development is linked to our success in the industry, which then creates more opportunity for all. This is why 91% of staff know that their own work has a positive impact on the success of the firm, why 70% of our projects are repeat business (often with world-class architects) and why Arup consistently remains in the ENR Rankings Top 25 International Design Firms (2007 ranking: 4th in General Building).

With such close synergy and alignment between personal and corporate goals, Arup looks for talented individuals who exhibit exceptional technical skill and also have personal characteristics that will help to propagate the long term Arup values of:

 • Quality of Work

• Holistic Approach

• Humane Organization

• Straight and Honorable Dealings

 • Social Usefulness

• Reasonable Prosperity of Members

As a Graduate Mechanical Engineer, your typical responsibilities will include:

• Load analyses for the purposes of system sizing

• Air side and water side calculations for designing building systems

• Report writing: writing summaries of the calculation methodologies employed

• Giving structure to your own ideas – lots of “taking a first pass” at spreadsheets, reports and analyses for discussion later rather than instruction

• Attending meetings and learning from listening, asking questions and discussion

 • Working with people from other disciplines and/or vendors to gain knowledge on new subjects.

Required:

·  Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or architectural engineering

·  Coursework in HVAC design or heat transfer and thermodynamics

·  Internship experience in engineering-related firm

·  Proven interest in the built-environment

·  Good time management habits, ability to multi-task, ability to sustain focus on long tasks

·  Ability to communicate thoughts and technical ideas in an accessible way

·  Attitude of taking initiative, enthusiasm, eagerness to learn, teamwork, creativity.

Preferred:

·  3.5 GPA or higher, Master’s degree,

·  EIT certification, membership in ASHRAE or ASME

·  Course in sustainability, Energy/thermal modeling skills, AutoCAD drafting skills

·  Internship with HVAC emphasis

·  Evidence of past internship or extracurricular activity in the field

·  Proven ability to perform in a paid work environment with intermittent supervision

·  Past history of technical presentations and technical writing

·  Evidence of personal investment in academic or extracurricular field

To understand why 92% of our staff say they are proud to work for Arup, one only needs to look at the talents and qualities that we seek out and then intentionally grow. Through a two-year skill-building period of on-the-job training in engineering analysis, supervised design of parts of real projects, responsibility for production of selected drawings and report content, in-house courses in multi-disciplinary design, and project site visits, the graduate engineer quickly becomes an essential part of the delivery team.