Structural Engineer - Ports & Marine

About the role

The Port and Marine Terminals group at Stantec is seeking a Structural Engineer - Ports & Marine Terminals to join the Transportation Florida team. This position may be based in West Palm Beach, Deerfield Beach, Coral Gables, Miami, Tampa, and Jacksonville.

Responsibilities

• Work independently on projects of varying complexity.
• Collaborate with business centers, design groups, senior leadership, and specialists in other offices.
• Develop project work plans and ensure execution through oversight and management of the project team.
• Evaluate, select, specify, and engineer all structural engineered systems or products for a project.
• Develop and guide the design process, including analysis, design, drawings, electronic models, diagrams, and other visual formats.
• Prepare and revise documentation through various project phases, including site plans, sections, diagrams, and details.
• Engage in client project requirement meetings, value analysis, and cost estimating.
• Lead the preparation and coordination of project specifications with construction documents.
• Conduct constructability reviews.
• Ensure quality assurance and quality control on own projects and projects of peers.
• Prepare project reports and feasibility studies.
• Develop project scope, budgets, and design approach for all size projects.
• Aid in the development of proposals for port development projects.

Qualifications

• Requisite knowledge, interpretation, and application of structural design codes, standards, and applicable port and marine terminals standards and guidelines.
• Strong understanding of all phases of project document production and the relationship between drawings and specifications.
• Strong knowledge of marine structural systems means and methods, materials, and industry standards.
• Ability to lead one or more teams through all phases of project document production.
• Experience with STAAD software for structural modeling.
• Checks the work of others for accuracy and completeness and manages time to meet project budget and schedule.
• Participates and collaborates in project team settings and engages in creative and critical thought.
• Thorough understanding of structural engineering and port engineering concepts and ability to communicate ideas to others.
• Strong written and verbal skills for interaction with project team, owners, and clients.

Credentials

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil or Structural Engineering.
• Professional Engineering license, or ability to obtain within 6 months.
• 5+ years of ports & marine civil and structural engineering design experience.

Benefits

Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid family leave. Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.