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Senior Structural Engineer

EXP
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 12/21/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/21/2026

At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, and creators, we are a community of professionals that brings diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Here, you join a team that leverages differences and harnesses its entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company that believes diversity gives us strength, seeks sustainable results, and shares ambitions for each other, our clients, and the communities we serve. Being a part of EXP means having your own experience while staying connected to a global network of professionals who believe we are part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.

 

Are you ready to design your future?

Join us as our next Senior Structural Engineer in buildings.  This position is technical in nature with both project execution and mentoring of less experienced engineers expected. 

 

Your work environment at EXP

In this role, you will be a key part of a Building Structures focused team and reporting to the discipline Director(s).  The location for the selected candidate is flexible but preferred locations include but are not limited to Chicago, St. Louis, Columbus, Atlanta, Dallas, and Bedminster.  Additional locations to be discussed, if applicable, with qualified candidates.

The Building Structures team executes projects throughout the United States and several US Territories.  In addition, opportunities for technical support of non-US based teams within EXP should be expected.

The successful candidate will be able to work both independently as well as with a diverse team of in-house team of professionals and/or subconsultants throughout the country in all disciplines. The ideal candidate will not only provide technical expertise in the execution of projects but be able to provide guidance and mentoring to less experienced team members.

The chosen candidate should expect engagement in a variety of project types. Major market sectors include but are not limited to mission critical facilities, aviation, and general building design.

 

What a day at EXP has in store for you

  • Expect to assist less experienced staff with all aspects of design, drawing development, and construction administration.
  • Expect to participate in quality assurance initiatives and quality control procedures.
  • Ability to self-perform and/or assist others in performing the required work at any stage of a project from schematic design through construction administration.
  • Calculations, sketches, drawing production, specifications, multi-discipline coordination should be expected on a regular basis.
  • Conducting observations of and evaluating existing conditions in both the field and via existing historical drawings are commonplace.
  • Expect to work on multiple projects concurrently that require coordination of work between multiple EXP offices, as well as outside consultants.
  • Occasional short-term travel to project sites. Usually, a single night or two at a time.

 What your experience looks like

  • Master’s degree in Structural Engineering is strongly preferred. A Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering w/ an emphasis on structures is considered a minimum requirement.
  • 12 years of experience with a focus on building design. 
  • Possess a solid understanding of various structural analysis software such as RAM, RISA, ETABS.
  • Possess adequate Revit skills, navigation, modeling, and sheet creation at a minimum. 
  • Licensure as a Structural Engineer via structural specific examination (Structural I/II, Structural Gravity/Lateral) is required. 
  • Hold excellent written and verbal communication skills. Possess the ability to write persuasively and communicate technical subject matter in a concise and comprehendible manner to a less technical audience.

 

The base pay range for this role is $120,000 to $140,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

 

 

Salary : $120,000 - $140,000

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