Structural Engineer
Harper Houf Peterson Righellis Inc. · Portland, OR · 1 mo ago
EngineeringFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections where posting has real specific content. We must not repeat job title. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate: EEO, application instructions, etc. Also remove "Interested? Please submit Resume and Cover Letter." and EEO statement, recruiter note. Also remove "Firm Background" maybe part of About the role? The posting includes firm background and culture. Could be placed under "About the role" or maybe separate? The instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need to decide which sections have content.
We have:
- Firm Background: description of firm, culture, awards. That could go under "About the role" (or maybe "About the firm"? but we only have allowed headings list; we can use About the role to include firm background and what they're seeking.
- Responsibilities: list of duties (multiple bullet-like sentences). We'll put in
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- Education, Experience & Qualifications: includes education, experience, qualifications. Could split into Requirements (experience, license) and Qualifications (education, skills). But we have headings: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to map content appropriately.
- Skills: maybe "Proficiency with structural design and analysis software; experience with AutoCAD and Revit desirable." Also "Strong verbal and written communication skills". Also "Experience managing structural projects, coordinating with multidisciplinary teams and working directly with clients commensurate with level of experience." That's more experience.
- Benefits: list of benefits.
- Pay: not specified (only "competitive compensation"). That's vague; we should not create Pay section unless posting actually states them. It says "competitive compensation" but no specifics. According to rule: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. "competitive compensation" is vague but maybe considered filler? It's not a specific number. Likely we should omit Pay section.
- Schedule: not mentioned. Omit.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits.
We need to ensure we don't repeat job title. No extra headings.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from posting, except boilerplate.
Let's extract content:
Firm Background:
"Founded in Portland, Oregon in 1990, Harper Houf Peterson Righellis Inc. (HHPR) is a firm of engineers, planners, landscape architects, surveyors, and natural resources scientists who provide integrated services for transportation, utility, and water infrastructure; public/private site development, and recreational parks and trails facilities. With a staff of 115, we serve clients across Oregon and southwestern Washington from our offices in Portland, Salem, Eugene, Bend, and Vancouver. We Offer Our culture is one of dedicated individuals who take our clients’ needs seriously while having fun. We support our teammates’ aspirations and provide the opportunity to achieve professional and personal goals. We are respectful of individuals’ personal lives and strive for an efficient and effective work life balance. It is because of this our employees have distinguished us with both national and regional awards for one of the Best Firms to Work For."
What We Are Seeking:
"An experienced Structural Engineer for our Portland, Oregon office with 5+ years of relevant experience; 10+ years preferred. The position's level of responsibility will vary based on the successful candidate's experience, qualifications, and capabilities demonstrated."
We can combine firm background and what we are seeking under About the role.
Responsibilities list:
- Perform engineer-of-record design computations and code checks and develop contract plans and documents for structural projects, including light-framed wood, heavy timber, structural steel, concrete, and masonry, in accordance with applicable building codes.
- Perform and prepare structural calculations and support documentation for submittal to permitting agencies.
- Perform feasibility studies, structural layouts, and analysis, and provide input on the selection of appropriate and cost-effective structural systems.
- Participate in structural QA/QC and based on experience, provide technical review and guidance to other team members.
- Assist with and, for more experienced candidates, lead the development of project scopes, proposals, budgets, and schedules.
- Coordinate structural engineering work with clients, architects, contractors, other disciplines, agencies, and authorities having jurisdiction.
- Develop and maintain client relationships, understand client needs, and contribute to identifying and pursuing opportunities for additional work.
- Provide oversight and resolution of structural issues during the construction phase.
- Manage or coordinate detailed phases of engineering work and based on experience, assume responsibility for overall project delivery.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to less experienced staff, as appropriate based on experience.
Education, Experience & Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering with a structural emphasis preferred.
- 5+ years of relevant structural engineering experience, 10+ years preferred.
- Professional engineering license required.
- Structural engineering (se) license preferred.
- Familiarity with applicable building codes and standards
- Proficiency with structural design and analysis software; experience with AutoCAD and Revit desirable.
- Experience managing structural projects, coordinating with multidisciplinary teams and working directly with clients commensurate with level of experience.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly describe observations and convey information through sketches, calculations, reports and other technical documentation.
Our Benefits list:
- Generous employer paid 401(k) contributions, requiring no match to receive 100% company paid premiums for health, dental, vision and alternative care for employee and dependents
- Company paid long term disability and life insurance
- Paid vacation, sick and holiday time
- Supplemental insurance benefits
- Wellness and fitness benefits
- Public transportation reimbursement
- Company paid professional license and association fees
- Employee engagement, celebrations, and events throughout the year
- Opportunity for company stock ownership
We need to map to sections:
About the role: firm background + what we are seeking.
Responsibilities: as above.
Requirements: maybe include experience years, license required? Could be "Professional engineering license required." and "5+ years of relevant structural engineering experience, 10+ years preferred." Also maybe "Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering with a structural emphasis preferred." could be qualification. But we have separate Qualifications heading.
Skills: proficiency with software, communication skills, managing projects, etc.
Qualifications: education, maybe SE license preferred, familiarity with codes.
We need to avoid duplication. Let's decide:
- Requirements: experience (5+ years, 10+ preferred), professional engineering license required.
- Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering with structural emphasis preferred; Structural engineering (SE) license preferred; Familiarity with applicable building codes and standards.
- Skills: Proficiency with structural design and analysis software; experience with AutoCAD and Revit desirable; Experience managing structural projects, coordinating with multidisciplinary teams and working directly with clients commensurate with level of experience; Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly describe observations and convey information through sketches, calculations, reports and other technical documentation.
But note "Experience managing structural projects, coordinating with multidisciplinary teams and working directly with clients commensurate with level of experience." includes "commensurate with level of experience" which is filler? It's a phrase but not a placeholder like "commensurate with experience" maybe considered filler? The rule says never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") . That phrase includes "commensurate with level of experience". That's similar to filler. Might be considered filler. However it's part of a sentence describing experience. Might be okay to keep but we need to avoid creating a section with only filler. It's inside a bullet; it's not a heading. So we can keep the bullet as is.
But we need to ensure we don't create a section that only contains filler. We'll have substantive content.
Now Benefits: list as above.
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Requirements: list ->
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We must not include Pay or Schedule sections.
Now ensure we preserve all substantive information. Let's verify we didn't miss any.
From firm background: we included founding year, location, services, staff number, offices, culture description, awards.
From "What We Are Seeking": we included experienced Structural Engineer for Portland office with 5+ years relevant experience; 10+ years preferred; position's level of responsibility will vary based on candidate's experience, qualifications, capabilities.
We need to include that in About the role.
Now responsibilities: we captured all bullet points.
Education, Experience & Qualifications: we split.
Check each item:
- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering with a structural emphasis preferred. -> Qualifications.
- 5+ years of relevant structural engineering experience, 10+ years preferred. -> Requirements.
- Professional engineering license required. -> Requirements.
- Structural engineering (se) license preferred. -> Qualifications.
- Familiarity with applicable building codes and standards -> Qualifications.
- Proficiency with structural design and analysis software; experience with AutoCAD and Revit desirable. -> Skills.
- Experience managing structural projects, coordinating with multidisciplinary teams and working directly with clients commensurate with level of experience. -> Skills (maybe also Requirements? but it's experience; we already have experience years; but we can keep in Skills.)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly describe observations and convey information through sketches, calculations, reports and other technical documentation. -> Skills.
Now Benefits list: we captured all.
Check we didn't miss any benefit: "Generous employer paid 401(k) contributions, requiring no match to receive 100% company paid premiums for health, dental, vision and alternative care for employee and dependents" (makes sense). "Company paid long term disability and life insurance". "Paid vacation, sick and holiday time". "Supplemental insurance benefits". "Wellness and fitness benefits". "Public transportation reimbursement". "Company paid professional license and association fees". "Employee engagement, celebrations, and events throughout the year". "Opportunity for company stock ownership". Good.
Now we need to ensure we didn't include any boilerplate: we removed EEO statement, recruiter note, application instructions.
Now output HTML.
We'll structure:
About the role
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Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- ... ...
Qualifications
- ... ...
Skills
- ... ...
Benefits
- ... ...
- each.
We must not include Pay or Schedule sections.
Now ensure we preserve all substantive information. Let's verify we didn't miss any.
From firm background: we included founding year, location, services, staff number, offices, culture description, awards.
From "What We Are Seeking": we included experienced Structural Engineer for Portland office with 5+ years relevant experience; 10+ years preferred; position's level of responsibility will vary based on candidate's experience, qualifications, capabilities.
We need to include that in About the role.
Now responsibilities: we captured all bullet points.
Education, Experience & Qualifications: we split.
Check each item:
- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering with a structural emphasis preferred. -> Qualifications.
- 5+ years of relevant structural engineering experience, 10+ years preferred. -> Requirements.
- Professional engineering license required. -> Requirements.
- Structural engineering (se) license preferred. -> Qualifications.
- Familiarity with applicable building codes and standards -> Qualifications.
- Proficiency with structural design and analysis software; experience with AutoCAD and Revit desirable. -> Skills.
- Experience managing structural projects, coordinating with multidisciplinary teams and working directly with clients commensurate with level of experience. -> Skills (maybe also Requirements? but it's experience; we already have experience years; but we can keep in Skills.)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly describe observations and convey information through sketches, calculations, reports and other technical documentation. -> Skills.
Now Benefits list: we captured all.
Check we didn't miss any benefit: "Generous employer paid 401(k) contributions, requiring no match to receive 100% company paid premiums for health, dental, vision and alternative care for employee and dependents" (makes sense). "Company paid long term disability and life insurance". "Paid vacation, sick and holiday time". "Supplemental insurance benefits". "Wellness and fitness benefits". "Public transportation reimbursement". "Company paid professional license and association fees". "Employee engagement, celebrations, and events throughout the year". "Opportunity for company stock ownership". Good.
Now we need to ensure we didn't include any boilerplate: we removed EEO statement, recruiter note, application instructions.
Now output HTML.
We'll structure:
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Skills: list ->
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Qualifications: list ->
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Requirements: list ->
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