Most clients save up to 75% with GoTeam versus an onshore hire, and the reason is the structure: you just need to cover your Senior Plumbing Engineer’s salary, set at the Philippine market rate with no markup, plus a single monthly fee that covers their equipment, office, IT, security, and management. To see what that looks like for your business, talk to one of our staffing specialists.

You can start with a single Senior Plumbing Engineer. Most of our clients do. Then scale your team as your project pipeline grows. There’s no minimum team size to begin.

A Senior Plumbing Engineer designs the plumbing systems for a building, covering domestic water supply, sanitary drainage, stormwater, gas piping, and venting, and carries that scope from fixture unit calculations through to construction documents.

A Plumbing Estimator prices that work. They quantify materials, calculate labor costs, manage vendor quotes, and assemble the bid.

On many projects, the two work together. The engineer designs the systems, and the estimator prices them. GoTeam staffs both, and if your work calls for it, we can get the right engineer and estimator for you.

A Plumbing Engineer designs the plumbing systems for a building, covering domestic water supply, sanitary drainage, stormwater, and gas piping. A Mechanical Engineer, on the other hand, designs HVAC systems, which means they’re responsible for how the building is heated, cooled, and ventilated.

On most commercial projects, both of these disciplines work on the same building at the same time, because their systems share the same risers, mechanical rooms, and construction documents. That’s why clients who need Plumbing Engineers from us for their projects almost always need Mechanical Engineers too. If your projects call for both, GoTeam can place them together for you. Plus, we offer Electrical Engineers if you need a full MEP team.

No. “MEP Engineer” isn’t actually a single role. MEP stands for Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing, and each of those is its own engineering discipline with its own codes, tools, and scope. So a Senior Plumbing Engineer only covers one of those three. They handle the plumbing side of the building, from domestic water supply and sanitary drainage to stormwater and gas piping. If your projects need Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing engineers, GoTeam staffs each one as a dedicated role. Let us know what you need on our first call and we’ll build the team for you.

No. When you outsource plumbing design, you send your project requirements to a production house, they draw it up using their own standards and templates, and you get a set of drawings back that your team has to review, redline, and correct before it can go anywhere. A dedicated Senior Plumbing Engineer through GoTeam works differently. They work in your software, draw to your standards, use your templates and design libraries, and coordinate with your team in real time. They’re not sending you drawings to check. They’re producing the drawings your engineer of record can stamp.

Yes. Your GoTeam Senior Plumbing Engineer carries the full plumbing design scope, from fixture unit calculations and pipe sizing through to finished construction documents, including coordination with mechanical, electrical, and fire protection disciplines. If you’re an MEP consulting firm, they work under your engineer of record and produce the design sets your clients expect. If you’re a contractor or property developer, they handle the plumbing engineering your projects need in-house. Either way, they own the design work end to end.

On a lot of projects, particularly smaller commercial buildings and tenant improvements, a mechanical engineer can handle plumbing design alongside their HVAC work. But that only works until the plumbing complexity grows. Once you’re dealing with multi-story risers, heavy fixture counts, gas distribution, or building types like healthcare, labs, and multifamily residential, the plumbing scope needs its own engineer to stay on schedule and clear code review. A GoTeam Senior Plumbing Engineer picks up that entire scope, working alongside your mechanical team in the same project files, so your mechanical engineers stay focused on HVAC and your plumbing design gets the dedicated attention it needs.

Plumbing and fire protection share a building’s water supply, so your Senior Plumbing Engineer handles that overlap: sizing the water service to accommodate fire flow, coordinating domestic and fire protection risers, and making sure the plumbing design accounts for fire protection demand. That said, dedicated fire protection scope like sprinkler layout and hydraulic calculations is a separate specialty. If your projects need both, let us know on our first call and we’ll walk through how to cover both roles.

GoTeam Senior Plumbing Engineers specialize in building services plumbing design for commercial, institutional, and residential projects. Their scope covers the full design process, from fixture unit calculations and pipe sizing through to plumbing plans, riser diagrams, specifications, and finished construction documents. That includes domestic water supply, sanitary drainage, stormwater drainage, gas piping, and venting systems, and coordinating the plumbing design with mechanical, electrical, and fire protection disciplines throughout. If your work involves building services MEP, that’s exactly what they’re trained and screened for.

Every GoTeam Senior Plumbing Engineer holds a degree in mechanical engineering or sanitary engineering and is licensed through the Philippine Professional Regulation Commission. The PRC licenses engineers through two pathways that apply to plumbing: Mechanical Engineering, which covers HVAC and plumbing systems together, and Sanitary Engineering, which covers water supply, drainage, and waste systems specifically. Some of our engineers hold both. They’re also screened against US codes and standards, including IPC, UPC, IBC, NFPA, and OSHA, and are equally prepared for Australian and New Zealand standards, including AS/NZS 3500, if your projects require them. If a specific qualification matters for your role, let our team know and we’ll match accordingly.

Your Senior Plumbing Engineer works directly in the tools your team already uses:

• Revit and AutoCAD MEP for building services plumbing design
• Bluebeam Revu for engineering review, plan markup, and redline coordination
• Excel for hydraulic calculations, fixture unit counts, pipe sizing, and coordination tracking

Plus, they pick up your drawing standards, templates, and design libraries, so there’s nothing new for your team to adopt.

Whichever one your jurisdiction adopts. Most US states follow the International Plumbing Code from the ICC. California and a number of other states and municipalities run the Uniform Plumbing Code instead. So your Senior Plumbing Engineer is screened against both, and works to whichever code governs your project, along with the supporting standards that sit alongside it: IBC for building requirements, NFPA 13 and 14 for fire protection, ASHRAE for domestic hot water, ADA for accessible fixtures, and any local amendments your local authority enforces.

Yes. “Hydraulic services” is the Australian term for what the US market calls plumbing engineering, and our Senior Plumbing Engineers are screened for both. For Australian projects, they work to AS/NZS 3500, the National Construction Code, AS 2419 for fire hydrant installations, and AS 2118 for automatic fire sprinkler systems. If your projects are in Australia or New Zealand and you’re looking for a hydraulic design engineer, this is the same role.

Every design set is checked twice. Your Senior Plumbing Engineer first works through your drawings with Claude, catching spec conflicts, code compliance gaps, calculation errors, and sheet-to-sheet mismatches before the set goes anywhere. Then they apply the judgment only a licensed plumbing engineer can: verifying that fixture unit counts match the occupancy loads, confirming pipe sizing against code minimums for the governing plumbing code, and making sure drainage slopes and vent configurations perform as specified. There are two passes, one by AI, one by an engineer who knows plumbing design.

Yes. Plumbing is the MEP discipline most directly tied to water performance, and your Senior Plumbing Engineer can design to LEED water-efficiency credit requirements, including low-flow fixture selection, water metering, and rainwater or graywater system coordination. If your projects target LEED certification or local water-efficiency mandates, let our team know and we’ll match you with an engineer who has that experience.

Everything a local Senior Plumbing Engineer does. They design your plumbing systems, run your hydraulic calculations, produce your construction documents, coordinate with your mechanical, electrical, and fire protection consultants, and check every design decision against the governing code. And with GoTeam, they do it as a full-time, dedicated member of your team who works your hours, in your software, to your standards. They’re not an external service. They report to you.

GoTeam places Senior Plumbing Engineers for clients across the United States, Australia, Canada, the UK, and New Zealand, each screened to the plumbing codes and standards those markets require. Based somewhere else? Book a call with our team and we’ll walk you through how we can support your market.

Yes. Your Senior Plumbing Engineer works your hours, in your time zone, so they’re online when your team is for real-time coordination, live questions, and same-day turnaround on design reviews.

We handle the sourcing, vetting, and setup, so your Senior Plumbing Engineer is ready to start on your projects within about two weeks. The exact timeline depends on how specialized the role is, which we’ll map out with you on our first call.

GoTeam assigns a dedicated Client Success Manager to every placement, and they’re the one making sure your Senior Plumbing Engineer stays productive, accountable, and aligned with your expectations. That includes regular performance check-ins, workload reviews, and a direct escalation path if anything needs adjusting. You manage the engineering work. We manage the person.

Yes. Your Senior Plumbing Engineer works exclusively for your company, full time. They’re not split across clients or juggling other accounts. They learn your standards, your projects, and your team, and that knowledge compounds over time. It’s the same commitment you’d get from a local hire, without the overhead of recruiting, equipping, and managing one yourself.

GoTeam’s model is built around long-term fit as well as technical screening. If the engineer we place isn’t working out, we find you a replacement at no extra cost. The goal is a Senior Plumbing Engineer who stays with your team for years, not one you have to work around.

Yes. Every GoTeam Senior Plumbing Engineer works on company-issued, endpoint-secured hardware with encrypted drives and monitored access. And they access your project files, drawings, and design data through your VPN or remote desktop setup, so nothing leaves your systems. For clients who want an added layer of physical security, GoTeam also offers a secure office option at our Cebu facility. We can walk you through the full security setup on a call.

Yes. That’s exactly how most of our MEP consulting clients structure it. Your Senior Plumbing Engineer produces the design work, your engineer of record reviews and stamps it. They work in your software, draw to your standards, and coordinate directly with your team, so your EOR gets a complete design set they can review with confidence, not a set they have to redo.

Yes. Cross-discipline coordination is built into the role. Your Senior Plumbing Engineer coordinates the plumbing design against mechanical, electrical, and fire protection systems at every stage, from schematic design through to construction documents, flagging clashes, resolving routing conflicts, and making sure the plumbing scope lines up with the rest of the building design. Plumbing touches all three of those disciplines, so your engineer is used to working across them.

GoTeam Senior Plumbing Engineers are licensed through the Philippine Professional Regulation Commission, which is the Philippine equivalent of a professional engineering license. They are not US PE-certified. In practice, this doesn’t change the work. Your Senior Plumbing Engineer produces the design, and your US-licensed engineer of record reviews and stamps it. That’s the same division of labor most firms already follow, where the producing engineer does the design work and the PE of record applies the stamp.

Yes. Not every project needs a senior-level engineer, and GoTeam can match you with a plumbing engineer at the experience level your work calls for. Let our team know what you need on your first call, and we’ll walk you through the options and the cost difference.