Sr. Structural Engineer

Summary: This position is in office and primarily responsible for managing and completing projects, while being taking responsibility for scheduling and budgets and typically participates in the marketing and selling of the project, setting the fees, and negotiating contracts (including change orders and additional services).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:   

Core duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Cultivates and maintains direct client contact.
• Reviews and understands scope, budgeted hours, and schedule for each project, and ensures they are met.
• Identifies areas of concern, works with management to resolve internally or present to client.
• Participates in marketing and selling of projects, setting fees, and negotiating contracts.
• Determines all structural systems (gravity, lateral, etc…)
• Instructs junior staff to ensure all elements are properly designed.
• Instructs drafters to ensure all designs are properly drafted.
• Coordinates and checks final calculation package for content, completeness, and correctness.
• Performs final coordination and checking of drawings to ensure content, quality, and accuracy complies with Innova standards.
• Works with management to ensure conformance with project scope and local codes, to review and respond to comments from the client or reviewing agency, and to resolve field issues, RFI responses, NCR Responses, etc.
• Assists in training engineers and drafters through field visits and/or in house training.
• Ensures proper documentation is obtained and/or prepared for each job.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree (B. A. or B.S.) from four-year college or university.
• Masters degree from accredited university or program a plus.

Language Ability:

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret calculations and drawings from different sources, scientific and technical journals or documents, financial reports, job performance reports, and legal documents
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community
• Ability to write presentations and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format

Technical Ability:

• Ability to work with engineering concepts such as mechanics of materials, concrete, steel, wood, masonry, light gage design, and material sciences
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and the fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations

Reasoning Ability:

•  Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables

Continuous Learning Ability:

Willingness to improve technical ability outside office hours to keep with current engineering practice.

Computer Skills:

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of:

• ADAPT PT
• PS Column
• ETABS or similar
• Bentley Elements
• SAP2000 or similar
• Microsoft package (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) software
• Internet software such as Google Earth
• Knowledge of programming language
• AUTOCAD/REVIT
• Database software (a plus)
• Ability to learn new software

Certificates and Licenses:

• Professional Engineering and/or Structural Engineering licenses
• OSHA 10 training will be provided by company
• LEED certification is a plus

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Supervise Project Engineers, Junior Engineers, CAD Manager, Designers, and Interns.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While on job sites, the employee may be exposed to outside weather conditions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms, and can be required to climb stairs, crawl in tight areas when visiting/working at job sites and other field assignments.

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.