Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, you must be able to accomplish each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Upon request, reasonable accommodation may be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
- Interact with management staff to schedule department personnel and resources.
- Conduct performance reviews, provides mentoring, determines training needs, participates in interview and hiring processes related to department personnel, encourages and develops intangible skillsets among department members (e.g., dependability, versatility, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, etc.).
- Review and maintains department procedures, standard drawings, and software-based tools. Utilize and encourage improvements and problem solving in design and drafting to increase productivity, maintain quality and improve project schedule and/or cost.
- Maintain effective communication with project team members, other departments, suppliers, contractors, and clients.
- Perform as lead civil/structural engineer on single or multidiscipline projects, directing the work of personnel and ensuring all standards are monitored.
- Review contractor quotations and create bid tabulations.
- Experienced in preparing and reviewing designs and drawings to assure compliance with engineering design, applicable codes, constructability, industry standards, completeness, and presentation.
- Advanced design of steel structures, foundations, masonry, and concrete.
- Advanced design of complicated loadbearing structures or structural elements, such as buildings, platforms, or pipe racks.
- Perform or direct others in the analysis of building materials proposed for use in construction.
- Review department calculations and documents, inter-department check sets and submittals to verify compliance with all policies, procedures, and standards.
- Assist in developing resolutions to field design/constructability issues.
- Observe safety and security procedures; reports potentially unsafe conditions; uses equipment and materials properly.
- Accept other duties as assigned.
Qualifications - Education/Experience:
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from an accredited university; Professional Engineer (PE) license and Industry related training certification(s).
- Twenty (20) or more years working in at least three (3) of the following service areas: Chemicals, Petrochemicals, Polymers/Resins compounding, and Manufacturing -OR- Ten (10) years of relevant consulting work.
- Ability to provide professional seal for governmental permitting procedures.
- Advanced knowledge of building codes as they relate to civil/structural design.
- Experience in acting as project manager on civil/structural based projects.
- Ability to obtain data from field observations, including working at heights via ladder or personnel lifts as required.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment with multiple deadlines and have strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proficient in using Microsoft Office, STAAD, STAAD Foundation, Bluebeam and AutoCAD. Familiarity with Revit, Navisworks, Civil 3D, Tekla Tedds, Hilti PROFIS, RAM Elements and other engineering or drafting software is helpful but not required.
- Optional experience: basic surveying for determination of project elevations using level and/or total station equipment; limited stormwater/sewer design for small-scale in-plant systems or extension of existing systems; familiarity with the implementation of laser scanning in project design.