Senior Structural Engineer

Salas O'Brien is a company that provides superior technical services in engineering. They are seeking a Senior Structural Engineer to deliver technical support, mentor junior staff, and oversee client projects from proposal to completion.

Responsibilities:

• Provide a superior level of proficiency and technical knowledge of discipline or area to enable the engineer to serve as a resource for the company’s efforts to provide design and technical services to its clients
• Identify, formulate and initiate solutions to complex problems requiring single discipline involvement and single discipline analytical tools
• Understand, analyze and construct system architectures and system component relationships
• Perform required work activities on an individual basis or within a project team with no need for supervision. Lead, facilitate and coordinate work activity of others including other Salas O’Brien employees, customers, suppliers and alliances at the project, office or client level
• Coordinate work activities that affect the quality of administration, proposals, engineering & design, document control, inspection & testing, and commissioning in accordance with Salas O’Brien’s Quality Assurance Program
• Interpret codes and standards and apply them to design
• Identify and resolve routine problems that involve the use of conflicting or incomplete information
• Look for opportunities to promote new concepts and approaches
• Apply engineering talent at the working, project and office level to assure compliance to the customer’s and Salas O’Brien’s quality and consistency expectations
• Develop, review, recommend and implement plans that involve scheduling, budgeting, and resource allocation and project control
• Plan and schedule project activities using planning and scheduling tools
• Recognize the need for and initiate corrective action to address shortcomings in design or engineering processes that run counter to customer’s or Salas O’Brien’s quality or safety requirements. Conduct root cause assessments and recommend practical solutions to underlying problems
• Master and mentor others on how project profit margins, growth of client business activity and expansion of their understanding and use of Salas O’Brien services impact revenues, expenses and profitability
• Perform, supervise and review complex calculations
• Direct the development of proposals, specifications and design standards at a working, project and office level
• Review design output and analyses
• Conduct or direct others for on-site systems and facilities inspections for customers
• Provide project supervision and monitor progress
• Provide training and mentoring for subordinate technical staff and take an active role in personnel development by seeking out client perspectives on the Salas O’Brien products, personnel and services rendered
• Actively participate in the Employee Assessment & Development process
• Establish credibility and competence with clients on technical issues and possess well-developed personal and presentational skills
• Make technical assessments and design decisions involving uncertainty and risk
• Perform other responsibilities as assigned or deemed appropriate of the position by management
• Prepare technical reports for supervisors, management and clients
• Communicate effectively with subordinates, supervisors, management and clients
• Prepare technical reports for supervisors, management and clients
• Comprehend, contribute to, and carry out strategies that govern our relationship with customers and alliances
• Provide a high level of proficiency and technical knowledge of discipline or area to enable the engineer to serve as a resource for the company’s efforts to provide design and technical services to its clients
• Keep abreast of new products, processes, and technology
• Establish and maintain industry ties at technical, professional and regulatory levels
• Plan, direct, supervise and otherwise support client projects from proposal to completion. Make decisions at a technical and quality required to support attainment of Salas O’Brien’s goals for customer satisfaction and meet corporate earnings objectives
• Possess the knowledge and authority to make and assume substantial authority for technical decisions
• The incumbent is accountable to the Department Manager, Operations Manager, and Senior Leadership for the proper execution of their professional responsibilities in an ethical and professional manner

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Engineering, Applied Sciences
• Fifteen or more years' experience in the field of expertise or related fields
• PE license
• Ability to communicate effectively with subordinates, supervisors, management and clients
• Knowledge and authority to make and assume substantial authority for technical decisions
• Ability to plan, direct, supervise and otherwise support client projects from proposal to completion
• Ability to keep abreast of new products, processes, and technology
• Ability to establish and maintain industry ties at technical, professional and regulatory levels
• Ability to perform, supervise and review complex calculations
• Ability to conduct root cause assessments and recommend practical solutions to underlying problems
• Ability to prepare technical reports for supervisors, management and clients
• Ability to provide training and mentoring for subordinate technical staff
• Ability to recognize the need for and initiate corrective action to address shortcomings in design or engineering processes
• Ability to make technical assessments and design decisions involving uncertainty and risk
• Ability to actively participate in the Employee Assessment & Development process
• Ability to establish credibility and competence with clients on technical issues
• Ability to provide project supervision and monitor progress