Harris Career Path Options
If you’re interested in building new skills, increasing your job responsibilities or leading a team or business area, Harris is committed to helping you stretch and explore various career path options. Wherever you are in your career, every role offers opportunities to grow and advance. If moving to a new location appeals to you, Harris has offices across the country and exciting traveling positions for project managers.
Explore career path options below
Design + Engineering
Whether you are designing a stadium, engineering the details for a renovation or working on a design-build project or design-assist, our BIM/VDC and Engineering teams combine expertise with creative problem-solving to raise the quality of every design project.
Design + Engineering career path options:
- CAD operators
- CAD designer
- BIM/VDC technician
- BIM/VDC designer
- BIM/VDC sr. designer
- BIM/VDC supervisor or manager
- Engineer
- Sr. engineer
- Engineering manager or director
- Vice president, engineering services
Construction (Mechanical Business Units)
We work on a variety of projects around the country. From the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C, our innovation and quality shine through. Learn about Harris Construction
Construction career path options:
- Intern
- Building information modeling (BIM)/Virtual Design + Construction (VDC) roles
- Assistant project manager
- Estimator
- Project manager
- Traveling project manager
- Senior project manager
- Construction executive
- General manager or vice president (business unit leader)
Controls
Whether it’s a large international airport in Minnesota or a commercial building in D.C., our controls team is available to design and build HVAC controls and panels for projects large and small. Learn about Harris Controls
Controls career path options:
- Intern
- Installation specialist
- Systems specialist–Levels 1, 2 and 3
- Project managers–Levels 1, 2 and 3
- Controls system designers–Levels 1, 2 and 3
- Account executives
- Team lead
- General manager (business unit leader)
Service
Whether it’s a commercial building in Minneapolis or a high-rise condo in Salt Lake City, our service team is experienced and ready to provide service for heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Learn about Harris Service
Service career path options:
- Intern
- Technician
- Dispatchers
- Maintenance solutions advisors
- Maintenance sales representatives
- Senior maintenance sales representatives
- Project sales representatives
- Senior project sales representatives
- Service manager
- General manager (business unit leader)
Manufacturing and Field
Whether the project calls for HVAC ductwork, pre-assembled fixtures, high-pressure air and nitrogen lines or process piping, Harris has a career path option for you.
Manufacturing and field career path options:
- Mechanical helper
- Apprentice – plumbing, pipe fitting, sheet metal
- Journeyman – plumbing, pipe fitting, sheet metal
- Foreman
- General foreman
- Superintendent
Conveyors
Our conveyors team develops innovative solutions from design and fabrication to installation and startup. Whether designing, manufacturing or selling conveyors, we have a career path option for you.
Conveyors career path options:
- CAD operator
- Sr. CAD operator
- Operations
- Sales engineering manager
- Process manager
- General manager
Corporate Positions
If an office setting is more your style, we offer positions at our headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota, and at most of our other locations.
Sample corporate careers:
- Administrative and corporate support services
- Payroll
- Purchasing
- Accounts payable and/or receivable
- Technology business solutions (IT)
- Human capital
- Marketing communications
Traveling Project Manager Positions
If hiking a canyon in Arizona, enjoying the sunshine in Nevada, or working on large, iconic, high-profile construction projects in different locations sounds intriguing to you, consider a traveling project manager role in Harris construction.
We’re looking for full-time, long-term project managers who like to explore and live in different parts of the country, rather than feel rooted in one place for too long. Traveling project managers are full-time Harris employees who live near a project anywhere from three months to three years before moving on to a new location. We offer relocation packages, and your benefits travel with you.