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Structural Engineer

Tate Metalworks Inc
Columbia, SC Full Time
POSTED ON 8/1/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/22/2026

Tate Metalworks, Inc., is a heavy industrial fabricator and erector specializing in the design, construction, and maintenance of storage tanks and pressure vessels and other welded steel structures.

Our client base is comprised of Fortune 500 companies serving heavy manufacturing in the Chemical, Pulp and Paper, Oil and Gas, Environmental, Metals and Minerals, Pharmaceutical, Food and Beverage, Agricultural, Water Treatment, and Defense Industries. We are committed to delivering high-quality projects focused on safety, innovation, and client satisfaction.

We are seeking an experienced Project Engineer to join our growing team. The ideal candidate will oversee and manage storage tank projects from design conception through construction completion, ensuring engineering specifications and standards, safety protocols, and client requirements are met through the project life cycle.


Responsibilities


  • Review Customer Technical Specifications and Drawings and develop designs based on Customer-supplied plans and specifications, and a variety of applicable Codes: ASME Section VIII, API, AWWA, NFPA, ASIC, and National and International Building Codes.
  • Generate detailed shop fabrication and field erection cost estimates.
  • Generate Subcontractor Request for Quotation Packages
  • Review Customer Terms and Conditions
  • Write and issue technical and commercial proposals to our customers.
  • Project Management responsibilities include coordinating intra-company project activities including drafting, purchasing, shop-fabrication, field-erection, as well as Subcontract Management, Contract Changes and ongoing Customer Service/Communications functions during each project


Qualifications


Education: Bachelor's degree in Civil, Mechanical, or Structural Engineering.

Certifications: Professional Engineer (PE) license or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification desired, but not required.

Experience: Minimum of 3-5 years of project engineering experience in process engineering, industrial manufacturing, or heavy industrial construction or related fields.

Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills.


Benefits


  • Participation the Company ESOP Program (Employee Stock Ownership Program)
  • Competitive Salary and Performance Based Bonus Program
  • 401K Retirement Plan: 100% Match up to 5% of Base Salary
  • Professional Development Opportunities.
  • Paid Time Off and Holidays
  • 3 Weeks PTO per year
  • Relocation Assistance is Applicable


*You are going to be doing Project Engineering, and Project Management work: enhancing your design skills, but also commercial, contractual skills as well vs. doing “design only” work


* We have a diverse and interesting client base in many varied industries: Chemicals, Petro Chemicals, Power Generation, Environmental, Pulp and Paper and many others.


Tate Metalworks is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a protected veteran, or disability.

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