What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Structural Engineer - Building Design position at AJ Consulting Group, LLC?
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Your next role
Join us and be surrounded by exceptional opportunities in an environment alive with innovation and possibility. Your new team has a willingness and curiosity to see possibility and potential in everything – from the most iconic projects to our everyday conversations.
Your key duties
Our ideal candidate will be a creative individual with superb communication skills. Your broad design knowledge will serve you well in this role as you make your mark on our exciting range of projects. This role will typically analyze and design structural systems for steel and concrete buildings using the appropriate building codes and be in close collaboration with other disciplines within a multi-discipline environment.
As a key part of the team, your responsibilities will be varied but will broadly include:
Preparation and verification of detailed engineering designs, drawings, documents and specifications
- Undertake detailed engineering design for gravity and lateral systems of building structures
- Take the lead in managing project development and deliverables with the team
- Reviewing project work and deliverables to meet expected high levels of quality against project schedules
- Guide and help develop less experienced team members in order to achieve project success and team goals
- Create 3D structural analysis models using commercial software, including RAM, SAP, ETABS, SAFE, etc
- Set up, manage and review job/project administrative systems, including planning and monitoring job resourcing/expenditure
- Under guidance of project leadership, attend and participate in meetings with the client, and other design team members
Must Have
- 5 years of experience of innovative structural building engineering design
- Relevant master's degree
- Professional Engineer (P.E.)
- Structural Engineer (S.E.) is a plus
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of US Building Codes and Professional Standards with expertise in seismic design
- Broad structural design knowledge from working on a wide range of projects
- Experience with wide range of material, including the design of steel, concrete and mass timber building structures
- Confident and proactive character with ability to accept a high degree of responsibility in a team-based organization, combined with ability to work independently
- Experience in Performance-based seismic design and Seismic devices (base isolation, hysteretic / viscous dampers, etc.) is a plus
- Good working experience with BIM tools such as REVIT
- Passion for sustainability and reducing the environmental impact on projects
- Experience with or willing to learn computation design methods, using Rhino, Grasshopper is a plus
- We encourage candidates to apply even if they don't meet every qualification
What we offer
- Generous benefits package
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Generous PTO (4 weeks) in addition to 10 paid holidays
- 401k with company match
- Hybrid working (minimum of 3 days/week in office) & summer hours
- Reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees
- Connection to global network of experts on the forefront of industry initiatives
- Access to wide ranging learning and development opportunities
- Be a part of supporting our diverse company culture through open engagement with our Young Employees Forum, Diversity and Inclusion Forum, Buro Happold Women's Network, and/or our Black at Buro Happold Employee Resource Groups