Petersen Engineering
Petersen Engineering

This is the best job you’ll ever have

We take pride in being forward thinking, doing work that matters, and delivering friendly, professional service to our clients.

Working here

We are committed to cultivating a friendly, fun, and collaborative culture—to make Petersen Engineering Inc. the best place you have ever worked.

We don’t have artificial hierarchies—our employees have plenty of opportunities to pitch in, learn, and grow.

We are family friendly and believe in work-life balance—we work hard, but we encourage reasonable work hours to maximize productivity and job satisfaction.

We seek to work with people of all types of backgrounds, and we’re open to hiring remote employees. Equity, diversity, and inclusion matter to us.

We do meaningful work. We take tremendous pride in working with our collaborators to design buildings in the Northeast that are sustainable and resilient, efficient, durable, beautiful, and comfortable.

Giving back to our community is a big part of who we are. We’re involved in our local communities and in industry organizations, including the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, Passive House Massachusetts, and New England Women in Energy and Environment, and we offer a generous employer matching program for donations. We also support the organizations in which our employees volunteer with our “Dollars for Doers” program.

New England Women in Energy and the Environment
What I like best about working here is the sense of community and camaraderie, the people, and the culture.
I like the mission focus on sustainability and the cutting edge work we do.
Because this is a small firm, I touch lots of different parts of the project – I learn a lot faster and I’m able to be nimble.
What I like is the spirit of respectful collaboration – we can voice our opinions in an honest and open manner to find the right solution.
Every day working at Petersen is different. The work is engaging – I’m not bored!

The work

You get the opportunity to work on high-performance building projects in diverse sectors:

  • Affordable and market rate housing
  • Healthcare
  • Labs
  • Higher education
  • Wastewater and water treatment facilities

Compensation and benefits

  • Competitive salaries and time off
  • Family-friendly hours
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance fully paid by company
  • Life insurance fully paid by company
  • 401(k) with company match up to 4% of your contribution of 5% of salary
  • Professional development—support for licensure, opportunities for lifelong learning (ex. Passive House certification), and involvement with professional organizations

We’re hiring

Check out our current job openings

Petersen Engineering with offices in Boston and Portsmouth, NH is a national MEP/FP leader in sustainable building design including municipal, higher ed, retail, and housing. Our housing work includes engineer of record for a nation leading 5,000 units across 65 multifamily Passive House buildings totaling 5 million square feet of construction. We are a dynamic small firm that’s growing to meet the rising demand for climate-resilient high-performance buildings, and we are looking for an experienced senior HVAC engineer that is passionate about sustainable design.

We have a forward-thinking, friendly, and honest culture and are seeking a can-do candidate that has exceptional client facing skills, has a thirst for learning and mentoring junior staff and has the ability to collaborate in multiple party integrative design and build processes.

  • 15+ years of experience engineering HVAC systems in a variety of building types, multi-family, educational, healthcare, mixed use
  • A passion for a whole building design approach requires the HVAC engineer to have substantial cross-discipline knowledge of building enclosures and building forms that dramatically decrease heating and cooling loads, decreases HVAC system sizes, and simplifies buildings.
  • The ability to collaborate on building projects that are low energy, low carbon, resilient to climate change, simple, durable, easy to maintain and operate, and offer comfort, health and safety to occupants.
  • Licensed Professional Engineer with an engineering degree from an ABET credited institution.

Compensation and Benefits

 

Our salaries, remote work flexibility, and PTO are competitive with MEP/FP firms in the Boston market. The position pays $140k-$190k contingent on experience and growth potential. We offer generous health, family leave equivalent to MA, dental and vision insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, and a company 401k with a match of up to 4% based on your contribution of 5% of your salary.

Forward cover letter and resume to ehaye@petersenengineering.com

To apply to any of our open jobs, send resume and cover letter detailing your interest in the role to ehaye@petersenengineering.com. For the subject line, please use: [Job Title]: [Your Name]. Don’t see the position you are looking for? Send your resume anyway, along with a brief description of your interest in Petersen Engineering. We’re always eager to connect with great people. We look forward to hearing from you!