Structural Design Engineer

Spectra Tech, Inc. is hiring multiple Structural Design Engineers - Greenville, South Carolina

About the Role

Serve as a staff engineer handling engineering assignments of intermediate complexity . You'll apply essential technical knowledge, support EPC (engineering, procurement, and construction) activities, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver projects on scope, schedule, cost, and quality targets.

DUTIES:

• Work under the direction of a Discipline Lead or Area Lead Engineer to analyze problems and recommend technical solutions of intermediate complexity.
• Develop and review specifications and design criteria.
• Perform and check engineering analyses and calculations; specify materials, equipment, and systems; resolve technical issues of intermediate complexity.
• Coordinate technical matters with other disciplines, project management, vendors, and clients.
• Execute work in accordance with the Project Quality Plan, approved scope, cost, and schedule baselines.
• Establish, control, and report key material quantities; provide related analysis and forecasts.
• Support procurement and subcontracting activities (scopes of work, technical bid evaluations, vendor submittal reviews).
• Support construction administration (respond to RFIs, address field changes).
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Basic Job Requirements

• B.S. in Civil or Structural Engineering plus minimum 5 years of related experience
• Working knowledge of applicable federal (including Department of Energy orders), state, and local codes and standards
• Effective communication skills with project management, coworkers, clients, vendors, and subcontractors
• Job-related technical knowledge necessary to complete assigned work
• Intermediate knowledge of discipline codes and standards
• Ability to work in compliance with local, state, and federal codes, statutes, and guidelines
• Strong attention to detail; able to work in a timeconscious, timeeffective manner
• Intermediate proficiency with common office software (word processing, email, spreadsheets, electronic presentations)
• Experience providing EPC services on commercial or industrial projects
• Proficiency executing EPC projects using engineering analysis, 3D modeling , and 2D CADD automation tools in a multi-discipline environment

Discipline-Specific Requirements

• Intermediate ability to perform hand and computer calculations for foundations, concrete, and steel structures
• Intermediate knowledge of one or more structural design programs: STAAD, STAADPro, RISA3D
• Intermediate knowledge of Mathcad
• Intermediate knowledge of:
  • Analyzing complex structures
  • Wind and seismic loading in structural calculations
  • Dynamic analysis and design
  • Computer modeling and analysis
  • Blast design

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Engineer (PE) license
• Experience designing systems, structures, and components for nuclear facilities under ASME NQA1 requirements
• Practical field experience
• EPC project experience in one or more of the following industries:
  • U.S. Department of Energy or other U.S. Federal Government agencies
  • Nuclear facilities under a nuclear quality assurance program
  • Manufacturing, pharmaceutical, or biotechnology
• Advanced proficiency with STAADPro and Mathcad

Additional Required Expertise (Logic Maintained)

Design Experience (one of the following):

• Design and analysis of steel and concrete structures (reinforced concrete and structural steel) OR
• Design and analysis of commodity supports

Software Proficiency (all of the following):

• STAADPro, Excel, Mathcad

Code Knowledge (all of the following):

• ACI 318-14, ACI 349-13
• AISC N690-18
• ASCE 7-16, ASCE 4-16, ASCE 43-19
• IBC 2018