Some Good, Some Okay, and Some Bad - Engineer GMEP Engineers Employee Review

Great company atmosphere, great way to get a foot in the door of engineering.

Very low starting off salary.

1. Wide variety of projects to work on. I was involved in the design and drafting of retaining walls, multi story buildings, MEP equipment anchorage, and smaller structures such as trash enclosures. 2. The two main structural project managers are very helpful in providing guidance on projects. 3. Based on the project's complexity, there are opportunities to do various aspects of the design process. I got hands on experience with running calcs, drafting plans, doing design coordination directly with the Arch/Owner, completing revisions to plan sets due to RFIs or Plan Check comments, job-site visits, and 3rd party submittal reviews.

1. There is no set training period. You do the basic on boarding paper work and some initial set up for the software that is used (AutoCAD, ENERCALC, RISA, Bluebeam, Energy Pro for T24) but then it is heavily reliant on individuals to ask questions and check-in with the PMs during projects to ensure they are understanding and implementing calculations properly.