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Underground Structural Lead Engineer

Delve Underground
Irvine, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/26/2026
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ABOUT DELVE UNDERGROUND


Delve Underground is a leader in underground and heavy civil engineering serving the transportation, water, wastewater, and energy industries. Specializing in tunnel design, we provide practical solutions to the most challenging underground problems. We offer comprehensive design, construction management, and construction claims services, with expertise extending across a wide range of engineering disciplines, including civil, structural, and geotechnical engineering. Our primary focus is to make a significant impact on the advancement of infrastructure projects, which in turn shape and enhance the communities we serve. Founded in 1954, as Jacobs Associates, Delve Underground is an employee-owned firm with 25 offices and 350 team members throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.


We want our employees to make a career doing what they love to do. We encourage an entrepreneurial spirit and help our team members forge their own path within the company. We support their efforts to stay on the cutting edge of technology while fostering a great work-life balance. In addition to working hard, we also have fun. We socialize and celebrate achievements at summer picnics, holiday parties, and company outings.


Benefits: Full Benefits Program consisting of Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, FSA or HSA, EAP, 401(k), ESOP, and company stock ownership program, 9 Paid Holidays, generous paid-time-off program, Work from home flexibility, and Health & Wellness Reimbursement


Pay Rate: $143,049 - $290,156


Underground Structural Lead Engineer


Delve Underground is looking for Underground Structural Lead Engineer for our California region. This is your opportunity to showcase your structural design expertise, lead a group of talented underground structural engineers, interact with clients, and propel our structural practice locally, nationally, and internationally. You will be challenged with exciting and large-scale landmark projects that push the state of the industry across all sectors of underground public and private works.


The Underground Structural Lead Engineer is a self-motivated leader with a strong technical skillset and at least 20 years of experience in the design of underground structures. The position requires commanding knowledge of common methods for underground structural analysis and design of structures using governing codes and standards. Beyond demonstrable technical excellence, you bring experience in design management, leading teams and developing staff, client relations, and an overall desire for personal growth while supporting the growth of our structural practice.


Responsibilities:

  • Lead technical design tasks for underground structures including tunnels, shafts, and stations.
  • Lead the preparation of technical reports, engineering specifications, drawings, and calculations in support of engineering activities.
  • Champion and execute QA/QC for project deliverables and technical reports.
  • Provide technical guidance to lead and manage multi-disciplined engineering teams including staff engineers.
  • Provide mentoring to support junior engineers career development.
  • Plan, direct and coordinate activities of project teams to ensure compliance with contract agreements and exercise cost control to implement the approved design tasks within established budget restraints.
  • Establish and maintain relationships with senior client management and staff.
  • Establish and maintain relationships with lead technical staff in inter-regional work.
  • Assist with client relationship management and project delivery work.
  • Identify and pursue new project opportunities and growth-related initiatives in conjunction with Regional Managers, Office Managers and marketing professionals within Delve Underground.
  • Demonstrate skills required to maintain effective relationships with clients and represent Delve Underground in critical business relationships.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in structural engineering is required; Master's degree in structural engineering strongly preferred.
  • At least 20 years of experience in tunnel and/or underground structure planning, design and construction. Experience should include technical oversight of design teams, design management and client relationship management.
  • California Professional Engineering (PE) license is required. California Structural Engineering (SE) license or ability and desire to obtain one within 1 year is strongly preferred.
  • Experience managing groups of structural engineers.
  • Experience working with equivalent level and senior level technical staff across company.
  • Experience and proven track record delivering a wide range of project types and sizes with public and private clients.
  • Experience working with governmental, local agencies and contractors. Experience with California clients preferred.
  • Experience developing contract documents, plans, structural details and specifications.
  • Experience overseeing BIM workflows for underground infrastructure projects. Ability to lead coordination with multi-disciplines in a federated model environment.
  • Familiarity with structural and geotechnical analysis software (e.g. FLAC, Plaxis, SAP2000, STRAND7) preferred. Ability to guide, review, and interpret outputs from analysis software essential.
  • Experience working with Contractors on large scale alternate delivery construction projects preferred.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Involvement in industry professional organizations desired. Presentations at key industry-related conferences and seminars desired.
  • Must be willing to travel for assignments as needed.


ARE YOU READY TO JOIN OUR TEAM?


If you feel that you would be right for this position, please fill out our initial 3-minute, mobile-friendly application so that we can review your information. We look forward to meeting you!


Delve Underground is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and will make all employment related decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.


Compensation reflects the cost of labor across our US geographic markets. Pay is based on several factors including market location, experience, knowledge, and skills.


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