Senior / Principal Structural Engineer

Senior/Principal Structural Engineer

Location: Denver, CO

Description: 
The Senior / Principal Structural Engineer will provide structural engineering services, perform structural analysis and design calculations in conformance with engineering principles, industry standards, and applicable codes on small to mid-capital projects to Client and its customers.

Responsibilities:

• Perform structural engineering design, including preparation, review, and checking of engineering calculations and design sketches for steel structures, equipment foundation, piling and concrete foundations for accuracy.
• Supports the processes for checking, peer reviews, and incorporation of comments and findings.
• Incorporates generally accepted engineering and design practices, techniques, and relevant regulatory requirements, for the control, development, and application of deliverables per customer specifications to support technical excellence.
• Support colleagues by fostering positive working relationships. Builds positive working relationships with external parties such as the customer, suppliers, and contractors.
• Perform job site walk-downs to observe new construction, assess existing conditions or features for suitability to retrofit or change of use.
• Participate in department/discipline functions related to quality control of deliverables, staying current with codes, standards of practice and advancing technologies related to engineering delivery and construction materials.
• Compile data and compute material quantities related to structural disciplines.
• Ensures discipline technical work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.
• Gathers data from multiple sources and prepares engineering studies, analyses, calculations, etc. Crafts recommendations and creates final documentation.
• Determines technical issues, defines, and implements innovative alternate solutions, establishes pros/cons for multiple solutions, and makes recommendations through official project documents such as technical queries, technical deviations, etc.
• Creates final documentation incorporating all relevant information and pursues customer approval. May review similar documentation to assist others and reviews/authorizes work done peers.
• Seeks input from knowledgeable sources, may participate in constructability, operability, and maintainability reviews to incorporate requirements into engineering design.

Qualifications:
Technical/Industry Experience Requirements: 

• A minimum of 8 years’ relevant experience in oil and gas, mining and metals, or related projects.
• Good understanding of ASCE 7, ACI 318, AISC 360 and IBC.
• Working knowledge of PIP standards.
• Familiarity with Staad, LPile, MathCAD, MS Office suite.
• Basic knowledge of AutoCAD 2D and Navisworks 3D. AutoCAD 3D knowledge preferred but not required.
• Willingness to perform job site visits per project requirement. Occasional local travel to site up to 20%, per project requirement.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, including engineering related vocabulary. Technical report writing skills to effectively communicate analysis and evaluation findings and recommendations.
• Must have a current Colorado PE license or a PE license in another state with the ability to obtain a Colorado PE license. SE license in at least one state preferred.

Education – Qualifications, Accreditation, Training:
Required: Bachelor’s degree in Civil/Structural Engineering with structural emphasis.
Preferred: Master’s degree is preferred but not required.