Senior Structural Engineer

About the role

At SSOE, you will engage with an innovation-driven culture where integrated delivery across architectural, structural, MEP, process, civil, and automation disciplines fuels impactful industrial and complex commercial projects worldwide. Our senior engineers thrive within a mentorship-rich environment fostering continuous learning, technical excellence, and cross-discipline collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Applies intensive and diversified knowledge of engineering principles and practices in broad areas of assignments.
• Makes decisive, independent decisions on engineering problems, practices, and methods, creating and refining innovative design solutions.
• Represents the firm in meetings and conferences to resolve important questions and to plan and coordinate a project.
• Plans, develops, coordinates, and directs a medium to large engineering project or a number of smaller complex projects with overall responsibility for budget adherence, schedule adherence, quality control, and inter-discipline coordination.
• Serves as a key staff advisor and technical specialist in your chosen discipline, leveraging highly specialized knowledge and cutting-edge techniques to drive project success.
• Provides strategic leadership by guiding teams through critical objectives, innovative concepts, policy challenges, and complex project developments.
• Supervises, coordinates, and reviews the work of a team of engineers and designers working on the same assigned project.
• Defines project scope of work and organizes into manageable tasks.
• Maintains continuing professional education in discipline.
• Mentor junior engineers and technicians, providing technical guidance in structural engineering principles, software use, and code application.
• Drive business growth through strategic client engagement and proactive business development initiatives.
• Supports risk management initiatives by identifying potential design vulnerabilities related to seismic performance, load path continuity, and material durability per local and national code provisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil or Structural Engineering, which qualifies for licensure in the state of practice, is required.
• PE required or SE licensed with eight (8) or more years of related practical experience with former employer(s).
• Working knowledge of BIM collaboration and review platforms including ACC/BIM360, Bluebeam, and Navisworks.
• Thorough understanding of US building codes and standards applicable to seismic and structural design: ASCE, ACI, AISC 341, IBC, and applicable state-specific amendments.
• Proven ability to interpret and apply seismic detailing and design requirements for concrete, steel, and foundation systems in seismic design categories D-F is preferred.
• Strong client-facing communication skills with experience leading technical discussions with architects, contractors, and owners.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multi-discipline coordination, review processes, and change control in complex projects.
• Experience on Industrial and Manufacturing building projects is mandatory.
• Experience on data center and/or pharmaceutical projects is preferred.