Structural Senior Engineer

At Salas O’Brien we tell our clients that we’re engineered for impact. This passion for making a difference applies just as much to our team as it does to our projects. That’s why we’re committed to living our values every day: inspiring, achieving, and connecting as shared owners of our success with a focus on a sustainable future.

Building for the long-term means that all of our team members can expect to work on amazing projects with a people-first approach to problem solving. It also means that each member of our team has truly limitless potential to build a unique, meaningful, and high-impact career—and they’ll receive great total rewards along the way.

Founded in 1975, Salas O’Brien is an employee-owned engineering and professional services firm focused on achieving impact for our clients, our team, and the world. We know that tomorrow’s requirements are today’s opportunities, and we are here to design lasting solutions for pressing challenges.

We work across a variety of industries providing integrated engineering and consulting services. Our specialized experience includes design for data centers, healthcare, science and technology, high-rise buildings, clean energy, education, and other building types as well as structural and building sciences, infrastructure asset management, advanced robotics, and more.

Our technical expertise is paired with an exceptional team of business development, human resources, finance and accounting, information technology, and marketing professionals, all of whom play a key role in bringing our commitments to life every day.

The Senior Structural Engineer will be primarily responsible for supporting projects and performing technical work as the project lead.

The responsibilities listed are fundamental to the position and must be performed successfully to achieve the key performance objectives of the role. Other responsibilities may be assigned.

• Conduct structural analysis of new structures and retrofit of existing structures.
• Manage structural efforts on several projects simultaneously.
• Manage the project scope of work, budget and deliverables.
• Provide oversight of structural engineering projects.
• Develop engineering estimates, scopes of work, deliverables and second and third level schedules.
• Assist with discipline forecast requirements.
• Review the work of other engineers for deliverables are technically correct, coordinated with other disciplines, per Salas O’Brien and/or clients standards, on-time and within budget.
• Communicate and coordinate with other disciplines.
• Experience with all design phases of engineering projects.
• Supervision and guidance for other mid and junior level engineers and designers.
• Experience with development of effort hours for proposal development.

• Intensive and diversified knowledge of engineering principles and practices with a focus on industrial design including structural steel, concrete and foundations.
• Ability to lead a project team by communicating essential information and providing interdisciplinary interface.
• Exceptional time management skills, with the ability to maintain flexibility while managing multiple deadlines and projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate within a team, across disciplines, and interface with clients.
• Fundamental mastery of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Access and PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with Autodesk’s Revit Structure, AutoCAD, and Navisworks Manage strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with Teams is preferred but not required.
• Solid working knowledge of structural analysis software such as RISA, STAAD, or RAM Structural System

• Bachelor's degree in Civil/Structural Engineering, MS a plus.
• 8+ years of relevant structural design experience.
• 8+ years in design of processing, chemical, pharmaceutical, and general manufacturing projects.

• Hours average 40 per week; may require additional hours including evening and weekends depending on business needs.
• Work typically performed in an indoor office setting/client site.
• Office environment, construction area or factory floor…