Structural Engineer - Technical Lead - Bridge and Transportation Structures

Structural Engineer
- Technical Lead
- Bridge and Transportation Structures

AECOM is seeking a highly skilled Senior Structural Engineer
- Bridges with a passion for their craft for our Western Pennsylvania Area (WPA) offices, which include Pittsburgh, PA, and Morgantown, WV. If you are seeking a well-established, cohesive team and balanced, stable workload working on exciting and challenging projects, this is the opportunity for you.

In this role, the ideal candidate will act as a Structural Design Lead on a variety of exciting, often highly visible pursuits and projects across multiple clients. The individual will have overall responsibility for all structural aspects of these projects and inter-discipline coordination of all technical issues with other discipline leads from initial design through technical support during the construction phase.

This is an opportunity to work within a well-established and very successful group that offers a diverse range of projects, technical challenges and career development opportunities.

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Coordinate all structural engineering technical aspects of pursuits and projects with other disciplines and in support of the Project/Design Manager.
• Ensure the structural design is completed in accordance with the contract guidelines and design documents.
• Establish structural scope, work plan and work schedule in support of the Project Manager.
• Lead all elements of conceptual, preliminary and detailed final design of new bridges and rehabilitation or reconstruction of existing bridges.
• Provide technical guidance and perform quality control reviews of design calculations, drawings and other contract documents.
• Prepare and/or guide the development of technical specifications and construction cost estimates.
• Manage groups of engineers, designers and/or specialists towards development of structural design documents and contract deliverables with minimal guidance or supervision.
• Assure conformance with contractual obligations by ensuring that design documents are reviewed and approved prior to release to the client.
• Train, mentor and develop staff and support career growth opportunities for staff.
• Support marketing coordination and proposal preparation. Participate in proposal interviews.
• Ensure that QA/QC procedures are being implemented and ensure the technical quality of deliverables. Lead responses to client's comments on structural design elements of the deliverables.
• Anticipate potential budget and schedule impacts and initiate plans for alternative actions.
• Incorporate innovation in design and delivery.

Examples of some of the recently designed projects that our Western Pennsylvania Area structures group include, but may not be limited to, the following:

• McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge Preservation, PennDOT District 11, Allegheny County, PA
• SR3007 and SR201 over I-70, PennDOT District 12, Westmoreland County, PA

Ongoing projects:

• SR 0070 Section K30, I-70 Corridor Improvements, Washington County, PA.
• SR 0080 Brookville West, Jefferson County, PennDOT District 10-0
• SR 0081 D46 Total Reconstruction, Lackawanna County, PennDOT District 4-0

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering and eight (8) years of relevant experience in transportation structures or demonstrated equivalency of education and/or experience
• Professional Engineer (PE)

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15+ years of related design experience
• Willing to obtain PE License reciprocity in the jurisdiction/s of the projects
• Master's Degree in Structural Engineering
• Project experience with PennDOT and/or other State DOTs
• Proficiency with CAD and similar computer software
• Experience with alternative delivery methods or projects with early contractor involvement

• Sponsorship for US employment authorization is not available now or in the future for this position.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.