Structural Engineer - Ports & Marine

A career in transportation is more than bridges, roads, and rail. As we plan, design, and manage projects that move people and goods from Point A to Point B, we create connections that transform our communities. Every airport, road, bridge, port, or transit project is an opportunity to make communities safer, cleaner, and more resilient. Together, we’re making an impact around the world.

If you’re looking for a career that moves, join our team of professionals who are passionate about the future of transportation.

Our Port and Marine Terminals group is currently made up of teams spread across North America, including Vancouver, Montreal, Halifax, New York, Boston, San Diego, CA, Tampa and South Florida. The group provides services for all phases of a project's life cycle, from planning through decommissioning including detailed design, construction, and operation. Our many achievements include container terminals, oil and gas facilities, dry bulk ports, marinas, coastal structures, wharves, jetties, naval facilities and cruise terminals.

Stantec was recently ranked as a Top 10 Marine and Port Facilities engineering firm by ENR.

Our PMT South Region is in search of a Structural Engineer - Ports & Marine Terminals to join the Transportation Florida team. This position may be based in West Palm Beach, Deerfield Beach, Coral Gables, Miami, Tampa and Jacksonville.

In this position as a licensed Project Engineer Ports and Marine Structural Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work as part of the Ports and Marine Terminals team of planners, engineers and technologists on multiple projects for a range of public and private sector clients. This is a great opportunity for a motivated, energetic individual who wants to challenge their abilities in a dynamic work environment.

Your role as a senior contributor on our professional consulting services team would be to work independently on projects of varying complexity, and as a senior member of a team and key player on projects. You would be responsible for developing, guiding and implementing our engineering tasks with up-to-date design tools and innovations. You would also supervise and successfully and efficiently execute projects and consulting services resulting in on-time and on budget delivery with overall client satisfaction.

• Responsible for marine structures and other port related projects of varying complexity.
• Work collaboratively and support our business centers, design groups, senior leadership and specialists in other offices.
• Develops project work plans and ensures execution through oversight and management of the project team. Evaluates, selects, specifies, and engineers all structural engineered systems or products for a project.
• Engages in the development of a design through analysis, design, drawings, electronic models, diagrams, and other visual formats.
• Prepares and revises documentation through various project phases including site plans, sections, diagrams, and details.
• Participates in client project requirement meetings, value analysis, and cost estimating.
• Leads the preparation and coordination of the project specifications with construction documents
• Participates in constructability reviews.
• Conducts quality assurance and quality control on own projects and projects of peers.
• Prepares project reports and feasibility studies.
• Develops project scope, budgets, and design approach for all size projects.
• Assists and leads the development of proposals for port development projects

• Requisite knowledge, interpretation, and application of structural design codes, standards, and applicable port and marine terminals standards and guidelines.
• Strong understanding of all phases of project document production and the relationship between drawings and specifications.
• Strong knowledge of marine structural systems means and methods, materials, and industry standards.
• Ability to lead one or more teams through all phases of project document production.
• Experience with STAAD software for structural modeling.
• Checks the work of others for accuracy and completeness and manages time to meet…