What are the responsibilities and job description for the Structural/Civil/Mechanical Engineer position at Zeeco?
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Job Description:
The Structural/Civil/Mechanical Engineer for the Rentals and Rapid Response department will be responsible for designing a wide range of mechanical equipment, including piping assemblies, pressure vessels, and steel stacks. Designs may be intended for permanent installation at a specific job site or engineered for repeated temporary use across a region. Temporary equipment may also require the design of custom trailers or skid‑mounted structures to support mobility and deployment.
Job Duties:
- Complete and/or check structural calculations for a variety of equipment.
- Work within an engineering team to provide technical support and responses for structural related items.
- Occasional travel to domestic and/or international locations for meetings or job site visits.
- Give technical presentations to colleagues on various structural subjects.
- Act as the technical liaison with US and Global Location colleagues.
- Communicate with project execution team to ensure structural designs are made with materials and details that can be readily purchased on the market.
- Communicate with drafting and manufacturing teams to provide structural designs that can be most easily fabricated.
- Assist Applications Engineers in structural topics for ongoing quotes.
- Efficient, clear, and concise reporting of structural design packages.
- Effective use of first principles to work through engineering challenges.
- Continual vigilance to identifying areas of waste and inefficiency with action to improve these areas.
Qualifications:
Minimum requirements:
-Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Civil, Mechanical, or Architectural Engineer preferred)
- 5 years’ experience in Structural Design or equivalent design role
- Excellent organizational skills
- Aptitude to interpret specifications
- Fluent in Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Professional Engineering License or willingness to obtain one
The following design experience is considered a plus but not required:
- Department of Transportation (DOT) compliant trailer design
- Pressure vessel design
- Steel stack design
- Steel structure design
- Wind design code principles
- Seismic design code principles
- Finite element analysis
- Pipe stress analysis
- Drafting software
The candidate should understand or have a willingness to learn the following codes and standards:
- ASCE 7
- ASME Section VIII Division 1
- ASME STS-1
- AISC 360
- ASME B31.3
- International equivalents of the above listed codes and standards
The following software experience is considered a plus but not required:
- Codeware COMPRESS
- PV Elite
- MecaStack
- Bentley’s STAAD.Pro
- Ansys Mechanical
- CAESAR II
- SolidWorks
- NozzlePro
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