Senior Structural Engineer

Job Description

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Your Opportunity

As a Structural Engineer your role as a senior contributor on our professional consulting services team is to work independently on large projects of high complexity, and as a leader of a team or project through all phases of a project lifecycle. You are responsible for developing and implementing an engineering discipline group equipped with up-to-date engineering and design tools and innovations, technical and supervisory capabilities and operating procedures to successfully and efficiently execute projects and consulting services resulting in client satisfaction and on-time delivery.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for large projects of high complexity
• Leads an engineering Team responsible for evaluating, selecting, specifying, and engineering all structural engineered systems or products for a project
• Engages in the development of a design through sketches, electronic models, diagrams, and other visual formats
• Utilizes technologies in development of three dimensional models of building's structural systems and provides markups for junior engineers/designers
• Leads an engineering Team responsible for the preparation and revisions to documentation in various structural phases including site plans, floor plans, diagrams, and details
• Leads project coordination meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor, sub-contractors, and vendors
• Participates in client project requirement meetings, value analysis, and basic cost estimating
• Leads the preparation and coordination of the project specifications with construction documents
• Participates in constructability review
• Conducts quality assurance and quality control on own projects and projects of peers
• Leads and provides guidance in the development of new standards and specifications for the structural group
• Develops project scope, budgets, and design approach for all size projects
• Assists with the development of proposals for smaller, less complex projects
• Oversees and manages multiple projects
• Supervises and mentors junior level staff

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Strong knowledge of structural design codes and standards (IBC, ASCE 7, ACI 318 and/or ACI 350, TMS 402, AISC 360), and the application of these provisions
• Strong understanding of all phases of project document production and the relationship between drawings and specifications
• Strong knowledge of structural systems, means and methods, materials, and industry standards
• Ability to lead one or more teams through all phases of project document production
• Checks the work of others for accuracy and completeness and manages time to meet project budget and schedule
• Participates and collaborates in project team setting and to engage in creative and critical thought
• Thorough understanding of structural engineering concepts and ability to communicate ideas to others
• Strong presentation and interview skills
• Strong written communication skills
• Requires understanding of Microsoft Office Suite
• Requires experience producing 3D models and 2D structural engineering drawings using Bentley Structural and Microstation, or Revit and AutoCad
• Requires experience using structural engineering/finite element analysis software such as STAAD, RAM, SAP2000, RISA
• Demonstrated business development and marketing skills
• Demonstrated leadership experience in professional engineering organizations or equivalent at the professional level

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Civil or Structural Engineering, Licensed Structural Engineer in the State of Illinois is required.
Minimum of 7 years of experience.

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather. This position requires full-time, in-person attendance at our Chicago, Illinois office location for an initial on-boarding/training period (minimum of 6 months). Transition to a hybrid working environment, if considered, is subject to Stantec's workplace attendance policies and supervisor discretion

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

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