Construction Structural Engineer

About the Company:
Our client is a well-established contractor who has been around for over 25 years servicing New Jersey and beyond. Operating in most states, they are extremely busy with no plans of slowing down. They pride themselves on building strong relationships, growth, opportunity, and customer service. Their culture and their people are important to them, creating a sound environment starts from the top.

This person would help add more structure to our current engineering team.

Why join us?
In addition to a family type atmosphere where upper management is easily accessible and willing to communicate with all personnel, below are some of the employee benefits offered by our client:

• Comprehensive medical and prescription plans that also contain vision benefits provided by a major insurance provider. The company contributes a substantial portion of the premium for individual and family coverage.
• Dental coverage from a major provider with a large portion covered by the company.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with a company match of a percentage of the employee’s salary.
• Term Life Insurance Plans paid by the company.
• Long Term Disability Insurance paid by the company.
• Generous time off packages including major holidays, vacation, and sick time.
• Year-end bonuses based on performance and company profit.
• Profit sharing.
• Reimbursement of work related training, licenses, and certifications.
• Company paid assistance when joining and attending associations, workshops, and seminars dealing with the engineering industry.
• Incentives for passing the P.E. exam.
• Travel expenses, when necessary.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Perform nonlinear analysis for an existing suspension bridge
• Develop a 3D finite element model for an existing long-span suspension bridge based on the design drawings;
• Perform influence line analysis based on the 3D finite element model;
• Writing program code to obtain the global live load pattern for each structural member that that causes the worst load effect on each member;
• Identify the maximum structural response for different live load cases.
• Perform load rating for different types of bridges under the guidance of AASHTO LRFD, AASHTO MBE, and other bridge load rating manuals.
• Calculate the capacity of stiffening truss members and gusset plate of an existing bridge based on AASHTO LRFD and AASHTO MBE;
• Perform load rating for each component based on AASHTO MBE and other bridge load rating manuals.
• Perform structural design for RC structures as per AASHTO, ACI, and etc.
• Calculate the required dimensions and reinforcement for different RC culvert projects based on structural analysis.
• Estimate the quantity and cost of each working item for a railway bridge project based on specification.
• Perform Cost Estimation and perform structural design for RC substructures as per AASHTO, ACI, and etc.
• Calculate the required reinforcement of bridge footing and retaining wall.
• Examine stability of structure against the design specification
• Perform structural stability analysis of an existing bridge pier suffering extensive corrosion.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or,
• Bachelor's degree in Structural Engineering or,
• Bachelor's degree in Bridge and Tunnel Engineering