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HED is looking to add an experienced team leader to our group of talented Structural Engineers. The candidate should have broad expertise, with a focus on design and management of large, complex, and technical projects, and be enthused about joining HED’s shared commitment to Advancing Your World through Critical Thinking, Integrated Practice, and Design Excellence. Competitive salary and excellent benefits, including a flexible hybrid work schedule, are available. This position is open to individuals located near our offices in Dallas, Texas and Royal Oak, Michigan.
ABOUT HED
We are a team that is full of ideas, experience, creativity, passionate opinions, insatiable curiosity, uncompromising integrity, commitment, and skill. Our culture is about aspiration, embracing change and challenges, listening to (and learning from) each other, encouraging continual learning, and inspiring collective growth. As an inclusive, integrated architecture and engineering practice, we value the diversity of perspectives, experiences, abilities, and expertise that advance both the work we do, and the world we share.
ROLE & TYPICAL DUTIES
- Structural Engineers at HED are responsible for building system concepts and the documentation process for projects at all scales from schematics through construction administration, typically on multiple projects at one time.
- Structural Engineers may function as a Discipline Team Leader, working in collaboration with our in-house A/E team, including the Project Manager and the Project Architect, to create and deliver Positive Impact for our clients, colleagues, and community.
- This role includes responsibility for overseeing and supporting project team members within the structural engineering discipline, including on larger and more complex projects, spearheading the team’s efforts in achieving Design Excellence.
Typical duties may include:
- Leading the structural design and documentation efforts, including producing drawings, calculations, specifications and the production of material, product, and code-required research to support project development.
- Document interpretation and submittal reviews during bidding and construction administration.
- Monitoring staff to produce quality services within a project team concept, and in conformance with HED best practices.
- Planning the structural discipline’s project efforts; including preparing and monitoring status reports.
- Attending project meetings as necessary, representing the structural discipline to partners and clients.
- Interfacing with other Discipline Team Leaders.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum six years’ of technical design experience in the A/E industry.
- Experience with larger complex, mission critical, laboratory/life science or high tech projects preferred.
- Professional Licensure required – SE preferred, PE acceptable.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Civil/Structural or Architectural Engineering required.
- LEED Accreditation preferred.
- Extensive knowledge of all aspects of professional services from schematic design through project close-out, including design and technical expertise.
- Comprehensive understanding of the coordination aspects and related requirements of all design disciplines.
- Leadership skills including the ability to mentor and motivate others and delegate work assignments.
- Strong written and verbal communication and organizational skills.
- Teamwork skills including working well with others under deadline situations.
- BIM literate.
- Proficiency with ETABS, RAM, RISA, and other structural analysis software.
- Very detail-oriented, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Capable of traveling to and from project sites, both locally and across the US; attending client, project, and construction meetings.
- Ability to access existing and new project sites for observation, investigation, and evaluation purposes.
- Ability to use office equipment for communication and documentation purposes.
- Visual acuity to perform responsibilities.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status or status as an individual with disability.
