Structural Lead

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AECOM is seeking a Structural Lead for one of our offices in Sacramento, CA. The role provides technical leadership and oversight for structural engineering activities supporting the initiatives for major infrastructure projects. This role is responsible for managing the development of structural design criteria, coordinating multidisciplinary engineering efforts, overseeing technical studies, and supporting design reviews and project delivery. The Structural Lead collaborates with internal teams, consultants, and project stakeholders to ensure structural designs comply with program requirements, engineering standards, and project objectives while supporting the successful delivery of complex infrastructure projects.

• Directs and contributes to Structures Design Criteria development for Bridges, Retaining Walls, and Buried Structures
• Coordinates with Seismic Specialist Team to develop the Ground Motion and Fault Crossing Response procedures
• Manage, and monitor progress and schedule of technical chapters of criteria development

• Assesses the studies to support design criteria development, third party agreements, and others as necessary
• Assist in the development of scope, delivery schedule and cost estimates
• Monitors progress and schedule of deliverables
• Manages and supervises the final design and construction support team to support construction contract packages:
  • Coordinate with PCM and System Assurance team to ensure the required design and review procedures, V&V process, and system interfaced requirements specified in GP and PCM manual are followed
  • Supervise the team to perform the Due Diligent Review for technical contract submittals
  • Manage the review of Requests for Information (RFIs), Design Variance Requests (DVRs), received from PCM for preparation of the responses
  • Coordinate with technical teams to develop the Directive Memo for issuing to PCM and Design Builder
  • Provide updates of design requirements and technical documents to support the preliminary designs for obtaining approval of environmental clearance application
  • Supervise the team to perform the review of the preliminary design submittals
  • Attend the technical discussion meetings

• BA/BS + 8 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• Licensed Professional Engineer in California

• Degree in engineering, construction management, or other closely related curriculum
• This individual shall have at least 20 years of structures engineering practical experience
• Knowledge of principles and practices of structural design of the bridges, and transit viaducts in high seismicity area
• Knowledge of principles and practices of high-speed rail design criteria and standards
• Knowledge of principles and practices of the design and construction support projects
• Familiar with Design-bid-build and Design-build project delivery methods and requirements
• Ability to use experience to evaluate engineering solutions for the major transportation projects from planning, preliminary, final design and through the construction phases
• Strong project and construction management background
• Proficiency and knowledge of…