Senior Structural Engineer - Commercial Projects

About the role

SSOE provides unparalleled opportunities for professional growth, offering the advantages typical of a large firm combined with the collaborative and supportive culture commonly associated with smaller organizations. We prioritize an employee-centric atmosphere that fosters a healthy work-life balance, exceptional benefits, and a commitment to continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Applies intensive and diversified knowledge of engineering principles and practices in broad areas of assignments.
• Makes decisions independently on engineering problems, practices, and methods and may create and refine unique 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.
• Accepts or rejects major items involving materials, equipment, manufacturer's quality, and field construction.
• Serves in chosen discipline as a staff advisor or consultant in the role of technical specialist requiring highly specialized knowledge and skills, and the use of advanced techniques.
• 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.
• Takes part in client contact and business development activities.
• Meets with client to define project scope, present project progress, and assure client satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering, which qualifies for licensure in the state of practice, is required.
• PE, or PE-tracked preferred, plus two (2) or more years of experience with SSOE as an Engineer.
• If not registered, five (5) years at SSOE as an Engineer 4 or eleven (11) years of related practical experience with former employer is required.
• Experience with previous commercial projects such as Health, Education, Government, Higher Education, Retail, Airports.
• Proficiency with structural analysis software such as RISA.
• Experience with building codes and standards such as: IBC, ASCE 7, ASIC, ACI (an others as applicable).
• Working knowledge of Revit.
• 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.