Structural Engineer

Nakupuna Companies is seeking to hire a full-time Structural Engineer to join our DoWEA Team. The candidate will be responsible for evaluating the structural integrity and building envelope stability of Department of War Education Activity (DoWEA) educational facilities. This role involves assessing reinforced concrete, structural steel, pre-engineered metal buildings, and mass timber structures situated in seismically active and typhoon-prone coastal environments.

This role requires significant travel to conduct on-site triennial assessments across 45 school campuses located on 21 U.S. military installations throughout the Pacific Region, including Japan, Okinawa, South Korea, and Guam.

Job

Duties Include:

The following reflects management’s definition of essential functions for this position, but management may assign additional duties and responsibilities at any time. Specific duties include:

• Facility Condition Assessments: Conduct comprehensive physical Facility Condition Assessments (FCAs) on institutional facilities to identify foundation settlement, evaluate seismic bracing conditions, and assess overall building envelope stability. Perform direct rating inspections of facility structural components utilizing the USACE Sustainment Management System (SMS) BUILDER methodology, including assessing foundations, basement construction, superstructures, exterior closures, roofing, and interior staircases.
• Data Collection & Deliverables: Enter collected facility component data, structural conditions, and material quantities into the Enterprise Sustainment Management System (E-SMS) within 90 days of completing each site visit.
• Concealed Components & Deficiencies: Determine the life cycle and next renewal needs for concealed or non-accessible structural members based on building age, environmental exposure, and available maintenance records. Document structural deficiencies and conditions rated as “Amber (-)” or “Red” by providing detailed supporting comments and capturing representative photographs, ensuring time/date metadata is included, for upload to the Data Asset Management (DAM) system.
• FUS & GSF Support: Support Facility Utilization Surveys (FUS) by verifying facility floor plans, tracking gross square footage (GSF) discrepancies; particularly variations up to 15% or +/- 50 GSF, and documenting changes to structural configurations.

Skills/

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate is familiar and has experience with the following technical knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Demonstrated expertise in evaluating structural systems for institutional and commercial facilities located in high-risk seismic and coastal typhoon zones.
• Proficiency in applying the USACE BUILDER Condition Assessment Guide methodology to physical structures.
• Ability to estimate material quantities from drawings and field observations to accurately componentize structures in E-SMS.
• An active Professional Engineer (PE) or Structural Engineer (SE) license is highly preferred

Education & Experience: To meet contractual requirements, the successful candidate must possess:

• Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Civil or Structural Engineering from an ABET-accredited institution.
• Minimum of five (5) years of documented experience evaluating reinforced concrete, structural steel, pre-engineered metal buildings, mass timber, foundation settlement, seismic bracing conditions, and building envelope stability in institutional facilities situated in seismically active or typhoon-prone coastal environments

Physical Demands & Work Environment: Candidates are continually required to stand and walk, utilize their hands, and finger dexterity. Fieldwork requires walking large, geographically dispersed school campuses…