Associate Project Engineer (NORESCO)

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Carrier Global Corporation, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, is committed to creating innovations that bring comfort, safety and sustainability to life. Through cutting-edge advancements in climate solutions such as temperature control, air quality and transportation, we improve lives, empower critical industries and ensure safe transport of food, lifesaving medicines and more. Since inventing modern air conditioning in 1902, we lead with purpose: enhancing the lives we live and the world we share. We continue to lead because of our world-class, inclusive workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit corporate.carrier.com or follow on Carrier social media at @Carrier.

About NORESCO

Exciting things are happening at NORESCO!

NORESCO is dedicated to helping clients achieve their sustainability goals. We specialize in providing innovative solutions to reduce carbon footprints and enhance energy efficiency across various industries. Our work creates modern, sustainable, and healthy buildings, campuses, and communities while saving energy and water, and optimizing operational and capital budgets.

NORESCO is also a leader in the effort to address the modern energy infrastructure challenges facing the nation and our world, including decarbonization, electrification, grid flexibility, sustainability, and resiliency. Through its projects, NORESCO has guaranteed more than $5 billion in energy and operating cost savings at more than 10,000 facilities throughout the U.S. and abroad, while reducing customer CO2 emissions by more than 25 million metric tons, equivalent to planting 1.4 million acres of forest. 

NORESCO is a Carrier company, with a commitment to reducing our carbon footprint and achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.  We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages.

About This Role

The Associate Project Engineer is an important entry level position reporting to Manager of Operations and supporting both the project Engineering and Construction needs.   As a Project Engineer at NORESCO, you’ll learn our business by working with our internal project teams to ensure that final engineering designs will achieve the energy savings guarantees and functional performance specified by our customers.  This is an opportunity to participate in a variety of roles while observing design work as it is constructed and becomes part of a successful energy conservation measure.

You will join an engineering-centric organization; NORESCO has over 150 in-house engineers from nearly every discipline. We embrace creativity and support professional development for generalists and specialists. Our project teams include representatives from multiple departments; Development, Analysis, Construction, M&V, Commissioning, and O&M. Our Project Engineers may be engaged on single highly complex projects or  multiple moderate sized projects, from initial development through construction and into operations. This is a flexible position with many opportunities collaborate with other project teams members to gain experience and refine skills across the energy business.

Key Responsibilities

• The Associate Project Engineer supports a collaborative Design/Build process that leverages NORESCO technical expertise with external engineering, vendors, and subcontractor partners.
• Complete a variety of design and engineering assignments; Refine schedules, scopes, and budgets with the project team, participate in design review meetings & charrettes, track design submissions, and customer approvals, ensure project scope elements are accurately designed, documented, reviewed, and distributed to the project team for use during construction. 
• Support the design engineering process during project development; Site investigations, data collection, preparation of conceptual design documents (i.e. schematics, equipment selections, preliminary drawings, scopes of work, specifications, etc.).
• Support project pricing effort in partnership with NORESCO Construction department; Final bid packages, subcontractor qualification, subcontractor bid-walks, use of third-party consultants, bid reviews, value engineering, evaluation of life cycle, and long-term service agreements, etc.
• Support project teams on site during construction, commissioning, and testing to resolve design issues, document as-built conditions, and ensure performance objectives are met.
• Assist with energy cost saving calculations for a variety of system types which may include HVAC, central boiler, chilled water, cogeneration, microgrid, and energy storage projects. 
• Participate in the equipment procurement process, including development of specifications and scopes of work, vendor relationships, design review, and periodic vendor shop inspections.
• Anticipated travel 70- 95%.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

• Fundamental Engineer’s registration (or path to obtaining one).
• Effective communication, leadership, engineering, and project management skills.
• Strong sense of ownership, understands the importance of maintaining project schedules, resolving issues promptly, and consistently meeting deadlines and commitments.
• The ability to operate in a team environment and work closely with stakeholders to develop scopes of work and design drawings for various measures.
• Desire to build and maintain respectful and inclusive working relationships with individual project team members to foster an environment of cooperation and productivity.
• Eligible to obtain a federal security clearance.

Pay Range

The annual salary for this position is between $53,000.00 - $106,000.00 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range include, but are not limited to, skills, education, experience, and other unique qualifications of the successful candidate.

Other Compensation

This position may be entitled to short-term cash incentives, subject to plan requirements. 

Benefits

Employees are eligible for benefits, including:

• Health Care Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision; Wellness incentives

• Retirement Benefits

• Time off and Leave: Paid vacation days, up to 15 days; paid sick days, up to 5 days; paid personal leave, up to 5 days; paid holidays, up to 13 days; birth and adoption leave; parental leave; family and medical leave; bereavement leave; jury duty leave; military leave; purchased vacation

• Disability: Short-term and long-term disability

• Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment

• Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Health Care Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account

• Tuition Assistance

To learn more about our benefits offering, please click here Work with us | Carrier Corporate. The specific benefits available to any employee may vary depending on state and local laws and eligibility factors, such as date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Carrier EEO Statement and Accommodations Process

Carrier is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status or any other applicable state or federal protected class. Carrier provides affirmative action in employment for qualified individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with section 503 of Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, participate in an interview, or otherwise engage in the hiring process, please contact us at [email protected]. We will make every effort to meet your needs in accordance with applicable laws.

Application Deadline

Applications will be accepted for at least 3  days from Job Posting Date: 12 May 2026

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