Senior Structural Engineer

About the role

This isn't just a job, it's a chance to drive infrastructure forward, power innovation and leave your mark on our energy future. HDR Engineering is looking for a Senior Civil/Structural Engineer (for both our Transmission Line and Substation teams) to join our growing and nationally ranked team of Power Delivery professionals.

Responsibilities

• Leverage broad technical knowledge and experience with the structural design components of high voltage electrical transmission lines, switchyards, and substation projects up to 500kV, including physical substation design, steel structure calculations and design, and foundation design.
• Work in close coordination with Project Managers (PM) and project teams in multiple office locations to lead, oversee, review, and/or execute the structural engineering and design components of transmission line and substation projects.
• Train, mentor, and guide junior engineers across the practice and help develop and implement best practices to advance our capabilities across this discipline.
• Lead, oversee, review, and/or execute structural engineering tasks for a variety of transmission line and substation structural members, utilizing folded plate tubular steel, lattice, and/or standard shapes.
• Engineer detailed design, calculations, and detailing for fabrication or development of loading and concept drawings for submittal to a steel manufacturer to design and fabricate.
• Lead, oversee, review, and/or execute foundation design tasks for transmission line and substation structures, including drilled piers, spread footings, grillage, driven piles, and potentially other types, using industry standard software.
• Support, lead, or review transmission line design tasks, including PLS-CADD modeling, structure spotting and design, and associated bills of materials.
• Prepare equipment specifications for procurement and/or factory acceptance testing.
• Assign project tasks and provide technical guidance to project team members.
• Coordinate and/or perform quality checks and reviews for project deliverables per the HDR Quality Management Systems (QMS) requirements, processes, and procedures to deliver a world class quality product to the client.
• Perform quality checks and/or reviews of projects from other teams on an as needed basis.
• Collaborate with transmission line civil/structural engineers to cross-train and share resources.
• Work independently and may direct, mentor, train, and/or supervise one or more Project Engineers, EIT’s, or CADD/Designers.
• Lead multiple projects concurrently, utilizing teams in different locations.
• Work with senior engineers and technical leaders to identify and develop specific technical expertise and will attend training and seminars focused on further development and understanding of complex concepts related to their discipline.
• May also assist with developing technical papers and/or presentations that showcase HDR’s technical capabilities at industry conferences or other events.
• Participate in project reviews as needed.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Structural Engineering.
• Experience using industry standard design software, including PLS-Tower and Mathcad Prime.
• Previous consulting firm experience.
• Familiarity with the latest AISC, ASCE, ANSI, and other industry standards.
• Experience using industry standard design software such as L-Pile and MFAD.
• Bachelor's degree in Civil or Structural Engineering.
• A minimum of 10 years structural engineering experience as it relates to building design.
• Requires professional engineering license recognized by the licensing board for the location of the position offered.