Design Specialist, Structural

Position Description: Conduct critical Structural Engineering analysis, provide input and perform technical reviews, mitigate potential design risk, identify and solve construction challenges, and generate optimization opportunities for pursuit and execution of design-build and design-bid-build systems projects.

Essential Duties & Key Responsibilities:

• Perform technical reviews of projects to assess constructability, examine design details, perform quantity takeoffs, and recommend construction sequencing and logistics as related to structural work.
• Review and evaluate project specific designs, program intent, contractual obligations, division of responsibilities, and deliverables.
• Review and assess project documentation such as drawings, basis of design documents, specifications, reports, calculations, and shop drawings related to structural design.
• Analyze elements of structural systems developed to date, establish sufficiency of design, and identify means of optimizing design components.
• Propose potential solutions to Design/Construction team for design optimization, risk management challenges, and constructability improvements.
• Evaluate and provide guidance for project non-conformances and operations issues.
• Documents structural review activities in formal report formats, technical memoranda, Bluebeam Studio sessions, and spreadsheet-based comments lists.
• Establish constructive and effective relationships with internal project team members to facilitate understanding and influence design and project development.
• Work in partnership with linked design disciplines to improve coordination of design concepts (e.g. geotechnical, architecture, code-compliance, building envelope and façade, MEFP, vertical transportation, acoustics, and fire).
• Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as assigned.