What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Structural Engineer position at EXP?
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, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, that believes diversity is what gives us strength, seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other, our clients and the communities we are part of and serve. To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience, while staying connected to a global network of professionals, who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.
Ready to design your future?
Be our next Senior Structural Engineer
Your work environment at EXP
In this role, you will be a part of the Transportation team based in our New Orleans, Louisiana office in a hybrid capacity having the opportunity to work on a variety of transportation and infrastructure projects with a focus on highway, railway and transit structures including bridge, culverts and retaining walls.
What a day at EXP has in store for you
- Lead the structural design for all project types, including complex bridge designs
- Lead the planning and schematic/geometric layout of new structures
- Perform analysis and design calculations according to the applicable design codes; use computer programs as appropriate
- Prepare plan drawings and details, construction specifications and design calculations
- Perform Construction and Life Cycle Cost estimates and prepare load rating calculations
- Oversee project construction administration including reviews of shop drawings and Requests for Information
- Supervise and direct staff engineers and technicians to meet project deadlines as well as scope and budget requirements
- Assist project managers with scoping and budgeting for structural work and be responsible for quality assurance of deliverables
What your experience looks like
- BS in Structural Engineering.
- Licensed PE in Louisiana.
- Experience with LADOTD Required
- Prior experience with complex bridge projects a plus
- Experience with proposals and business development activities.
- Proficient in MicroStation
- Knowledge AASHTO and bridge analysis, design and detailing preferred
- 10 years progressively responsible relevant experience in a Structural Engineer role
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to direct and supervise staff engineers and technicians
- Exhibits strong verbal and written communication skills
- Proficient with the use of computers including spreadsheets, word processing, and engineering software and ability to prepare electronic design calculation documents
- Demonstrates the ability to work collaboratively within multi-discipline project teams that may be remote
- Ability to plan ones’ own time and manage the time of others, as needed, demonstrates good time management skills
- Ability to problem solve, complete assigned tasks efficiently, and exercise sound engineering judgment
- Ability to work on several projects concurrently
- Strong sense of urgency and self- initiative to meet client deadlines
- Knowledge of structural analysis software including SAP-CSI, AASHTOWareBrR, LARSA 4D or similar preferred
- Ability to mentor Structural engineers
- Strong leadership, project management skills and the ability to work in a team environment