Senior Structural Engineer - Cities & Places

At Jacobs, we’re helping our clients innovate and grow by designing, engineering, and executing construction of state-of-the-art facilities that are changing the world. Our business reinforces our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere and epitomizes the "why" of what we do - the tremendous positive impact and value our solutions bring to our communities and our global society. We deliver fully integrated, interdisciplinary solutions to create resilient infrastructure to serve current and future generations.

We are seeking a Structural Engineer to join our Dallas or Fort Worth, Texas office as part of our Cities & Places team. Collaborating with our expert architects and engineers, you will be an integral member of the design team and have the opportunity to perform structural analysis and design for a wide range of projects locally, nationally, and around the world. Structural design efforts will include design for manufacturing, education and healthcare facilities, data centers, planning studies, water and wastewater treatment facilities, technical writing and construction drawing and specification production. You’ll be accountable for scope, schedule, budget, and technical quality of design deliverables, whether working independently or leading a project team. With our global reach, you’ll have access to industry experts around the world and opportunities for national and international travel.

• With little or no supervision, competently perform conventional aspects of Structural Engineering analysis and design
• Plan and conduct work requiring judgment in the independent evaluation, selection, and adaptation of engineering techniques, procedures, and criteria
• Exercise sound engineering judgment and problem-solving skills, not hesitating to reach out to others for guidance or confirmation when questions arise
• Possess strong knowledge of principles and practices of lateral analysis and design (wind and seismic), including ability to apply required provisions of the building code
• Exhibit a high level of attention to detail and quality control
• Committed to checking your own work, reaching out to peers and seniors for guidance when questions arise
• Perform calculation checking of other engineers' work
• Take responsibility for managing workload, make and keep commitments, and take full ownership of assigned work
• Take complete ownership of your portion of the structural scope, reliably working to meet schedule, budget, and quality requirements
• You may be given tasks with ill-defined conditions of satisfaction, in which case you will be expected to take the initiative to determine what is needed to meet the project and client needs
• Clearly define your own scope and start to develop your ability to forecast level of effort needed to complete that scope
• Be ready to identify scope change and escalate it to your Structural Lead or Project Manager
• Recognize when help is needed, reaching out to peers and senior engineers for guidance
• Work in a timely, accurate, and cost-effective manner with strong attention to detail
• Developing leadership skills
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and/or mentorship to designers/drafters and less experienced engineers
• Be proactive in advancing workflows, systems, and tools within the structural discipline; embrace emerging technologies
• Project Structural Discipline Lead: small to medium-sized projects - As a Lead Structural Engineer for an assigned project
• Fully understand structural scope, recognize how that scope is both generated and impacted by other disciplines, and identify scope change
• Develop and manage schedule, budget, and staffing forecasts for the structural scope
• Attend project meetings and take an active role to help team resolve concerns and solve problems across disciplines
• May be asked to act as the stamping Engineer of Record
• Take ultimate responsibility for aspects of the deliverables, including calculations and construction documents
• Participate in and champion internal, cross-discipline, and external project quality reviews
• Eligible to be QC reviewer on small to medium-sized projects
• Eligible to apply for the Technologist Career Framework role
• Will not now or in the future require sponsorship for an employment visa (examples: H-1B, L-1B, or other temporary visa status like OPT or F-1) to work for Jacobs in the U.S.
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering, with an emphasis in Structural Engineering
• Professional Engineer License (PE)
• Minimum 8 years of experience in structural engineering related to building (or similar structure) design
• Experience with US building codes including IBC, ASCE 7, ACI and AISC
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Experience leading small teams

Ideally, you'll also have:

• MS degree in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in Structural Engineering or MS degree in Structural Engineering
• Structural Engineer License (SE)
• Experience designing and analyzing steel, concrete, post-tensioned concrete, cold-formed steel framing, masonry, and wood structures
• Should be well experienced in gravity and lateral analysis of structures for wind and seismic loads
• Experience in buildings and general industrial facilities
• Experience with STAAD, RAM, SAP2000, ETABS, or similar general-purpose or component-based structural analysis and design software
• Experience with Revit, Navisworks, and Bluebeam

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