Structural Engineer

Job description / Role

With limited supervision from the Manager of Structural Engineering, provide the technical, organizational and communication skills to produce well-designed and coordinated construction documents for structural systems.

Primary Responsibilities
• Review and/or establish project scope, structural budget, and design approach with Manager of Structural Engineering, Project Manager and/or client.
• Perform as project lead engineer for larger projects managing production effort of staff assigned to project in terms of quality, budget, and schedule.
• Keep current with latest code publications and apply in everyday analysis as applicable.
• Capable of producing innovative design solutions and sound value engineering judgment.
• Formulate design and/or analysis of structural framing systems and perform necessary calculations.
• Conduct field measuring and checking at construction site to verify existing conditions.
• Prepare construction documents including drawings, specifications, cost estimates, etc.
• Communicate with other disciplines to produce well-coordinated construction documents.
• Review shop drawing submittals to assure design intent is met.
• Maintain project file containing project calculations, correspondence, appropriate reference material, etc.
• Communicate scope changes to Manager of Structural Engineering and Project Manager.
• Mentor less experienced engineers.
• Use available structural computer programs to enhance productivity and verifies results with manual checks.
• Versatile in performing design and/or analysis for steel, concrete, masonry, or timber framing systems.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Requirements

Required Education and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering
• 5+ years of related and progressively more responsible experience in the structural engineering field.

Additional Skills
• RAM, Risa, ETABS, or STAADPro; AutoCAD and Revit preferred.

About the Company

SSA Ltd. (Sommerman Skinner Associates) find out the detail to allow you to make qualified judgments about your career and its progression. On the companies that we represent (over 2000 spread across a diverse spectrum of industry) we will be able to inform you of contracts pending, awarded, company growth, opportunity, relative reward and internal prospects. We believe that through spending time and effort front end through interviewing or individual dedication we can offer real advice that will be valued. Our founder is degree qualified with extensive exposure to industry and with a career also behind him in Recruitment Management. Our team is made up of qualified construction professionals. We specialise in both permanent and freelance opportunities to qualified construction professionals.

Disciplines covered include:

Site Engineers, Site Agents, Project Managers, Contracts Managers, Quantity Surveyors, Commercial Managers, Planners, Safety, Purchasers, Estimators and Design Executive.