Plumbing Designer
BRPH
BRPH is a technically focused, creative architecture, engineering, and construction company with over six decades of expertise in helping mission-driven clients in the aerospace, defense, manufacturing, commercial, education, entertainment, hospitality, and federal markets identify gaps in their program delivery and develop innovative solutions to their most challenging problems across the U.S. and around the world. Consistently ranked among the nation's top firms, we take pride in solving complex challenges with forward-thinking solutions.
About Charleston:
Our Charleston office serves as BRPH's Southeastern gateway to the growing markets of Charleston, the surrounding region, and beyond. Our multidisciplinary team delivers architecture, engineering, interior design, and construction services across a broad range of markets: aerospace and defense, manufacturing, commercial/industrial, education, aviation, and mission-critical facilities. Our team thrives on collaboration, creativity, and technical rigor.
Overview
BRPH is seeking a highly motivated Plumbing Designer ready to take on new challenges and contribute to a diverse portfolio of complex, high-impact projects. We are a technically driven, creative architecture, engineering, and construction firm with more than 60 years of experience supporting mission-driven clients across the aerospace, defense, manufacturing, and federal markets. Our teams help clients identify gaps in program delivery and develop innovative, forward-thinking solutions to some of the most demanding technical challenges-across the U.S. and around the world.
Consistently ranked among the nation's top firms, BRPH is proud of its reputation for solving complex problems through thoughtful design and engineering excellence. Our project experience includes aerospace and aircraft assembly facilities, advanced manufacturing and wafer-fabrication buildings, state-of-the-art cleanrooms, large central energy plants, and a wide range of other technically challenging (and fun) facilities to design.
We offer a hybrid work environment that promotes flexibility and work-life balance while leveraging collaborative tools to keep our design teams connected, supported, and inspired.
If you're looking to advance your career, expand your technical expertise, learn from top-tier engineers and designers, mentor others while being mentored yourself, and be part of a dynamic, supportive team working on exciting projects-we'd love to hear from you. Visit BRPH.com to learn more about who we are, the clients we serve, the projects we design and build, and what could be the next chapter of your career.
Job Responsibilities
- Assists in client contact and communication pertaining to specific projects.
- Attends client meetings.
- Assists in the analysis of data received by others to plan and design projects.
- Prepares design computations and applies plumbing design fundamentals.
- Understands and utilizes plumbing design terminology.
- Assists in the preparation of reports and white papers.
- Performs site/field investigations to collect data for plumbing assignments.
- May instruct and supervise daily tasks of drafters and Designer Levels I and II.
- Provides advice, guidance and mentoring for drafting and plumbing designer staff.
- Provides technical support to other staff in area of expertise.
- Performs advanced CADD and Revit drafting on a regular basis to produce designs into non-routine final drawings.
- Uses AutoCAD and Revit in calculations of dimensions and distances.
- Be able to visualize from two dimensions to three dimensions.
- Ability to produce drawings in three dimensions.
- Produces designs and drawings from vendor's and manufacturer's catalog and technical data.
- Research discipline-related code issues and present interpretation.
- Perform checking of one's own work and work prepared by drafters and engineering designers.
- Provide coordination of all applicable project discipline's drawings.
- Promote communication, cooperation and quality among staff.
- Must be able to perform the following tasks:
- Ensure design is in compliance with all applicable codes.
- Ensure design is in compliance with client criteria.
- Ensure consistency between symbol/legends and drawings, details and riser diagrams.
- Provide complete designer checks of one's own work.
- Verify drawings/PDF's look presentable and conform to company standards.
- Perform domestic water and sanitary drainage fixture unit calculations.
- Size domestic water (cold, hot and hot water return), sanitary and vent systems.
- Calculate slopes of sanitary pipe system to indicated invert elevations.
- Coordinate route of underground piping below slab with foundation and structural engineer.
- Calculate domestic water requirements and size domestic water booster pump based upon available pressure and flow.
- Calculate hot water requirements and size hot water heater(s) and expansion tank.
- Size hot water heater return pump.
- Calculate roof areas for sizing storm system.
- Layout and size storm system.
- Coordinate roof drains location with architect/structural engineer.
- Provide and coordinate plumbing fixture cut sheets with architect/client for approval.
- Provide complete plumbing fixture and equipment schedules.
- Coordinate VTRs with mechanical engineer.
- Coordinate plumbing services and utilities with civil engineer.
- Complete Kitchen Design:
- Calculate gas load requirements. Coordinate meter location with civil/gas company
- Layout and size gas system.
- Calculate grease requirements.
- Layout and size grease system and size grease interceptor.
- Coordinate hot water temperature requirement with kitchen schedule/consultant.
- Coordinate plumbing kitchen design requirement with kitchen consultant.
- Complete Industrial System Design:
- Calculate compressed air requirements and size air compressor.
- Calculate vacuum requirements and size vacuum pumps and holding tanks.
- Write all required specification for small and medium sized jobs.
- Perform all tasks assigned on prevention checklists.
- Cross check plumbing drawings against other discipline drawings and participate in redi-check and other cross-checking activities.
- Complete Kitchen Design:
Qualifications
- Minimum of a high school/GED diploma and 7 years experience, or
- Associate's degree or equivalent from two-year accredited college or technical school and minimum 6 years related experience
Physical Requirements
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This job description may be changed to include new responsibilities and tasks or change existing ones as management deems necessary.
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