Structural Engineer

Structural Engineer - ( 250000RD )

Description

Join Stantec and help power your growth and advance your career. At Stantec, we deeply care about the communities we serve because they are our own. This connection allows us to understand their needs, connect with our expertise, and collaborate toward our shared success. We are a diverse team of designers, engineers, scientists, and project managers, innovating at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships. Our projects enhance quality of life globally through economic, safety, and environmental stewardship.

As one of the world’s top 10 design firms, we offer opportunities for you to develop your skills and achieve your ambitions on a variety of challenging and impactful projects. At Stantec, you can apply your passion and collaborate with top talent on critical work for our clients and communities. We have the ability of a specialized power group, and work on some of the most challenging and cutting-edge projects around the world meeting the design needs of our clients in the Mining, Pulp & Paper, Food & Beverage, and Manufacturing Sectors.

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities and prohibits discrimination, ensuring equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. Sustainability and resiliency guide our robust environmental, social, and governance strategy, empowering us to tackle the world’s greatest challenges.

Your Opportunity

At Stantec our offices offer a vibrant and dynamic environment with excellent opportunities for professional growth. As a member of the Fredericton, NB structural team, the ideal candidate will work in the Fredericton, NB, or Dartmouth, NS, office.

The successful candidate will work with general supervision and direction on average sized projects, and as a team member of a larger project under the guidance of a Senior Engineer/Designer. They will participate in the evaluation, recommendation, and specification for engineered systems or products for a project verifying compliance with applicable codes and engineering standards/practices.

Your Key Responsibilities

1. Responsible for projects of average complexity/size.
2. Evaluates, selects, specifies, and engineers all structural components relating to various structural systems.
3. Performs preliminary and detailed structural analysis and design for various heavy industrial and power generation structures (industrial buildings, equipment and piping supports, hydraulic structures), with opportunities in other sectors (bridges, transmission, distribution, and substation structures, etc.).
4. Engages in the development of a design through engineering calculations, sketches, electronic models, diagrams, and other visual formats.
5. Utilizes technologies in development of three-dimensional models of structural systems and provides markups for junior engineers/designers.
6. Prepares and revises documentation in various structural phases including site plans, general equipment arrangements, conceptual and detailed structural developments, detailed component design, and fabrication level assembly information.
7. Opportunities to lead project coordination meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owners and contractors, subcontractors, and vendors.
8. Active participant in client project meetings, value analysis and basic cost estimating.
9. Support senior staff with developing and managing the project scope, budget, staffing and schedule.
10. Leads the preparation and coordination of project specifications with construction documents.
11. Performs and oversees the performance of calculations using company standard software, and proprietary manufacturer software.
12. Participates in constructability review.
13. Conducts quality assurance and quality control on own projects.
14. Supports the development of new standards and specifications for the structural group.
15. Opportunities to work on multiple, diverse projects.
16. Mentoring and professional development of other personnel as needed, while taking an active role in their own career development.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

1. Strong communication, coordination, and time management skills.
2. Strong understanding and knowledge of engineering fundamentals and first principles.
3. Requisite knowledge and application of structural design codes (NBC, CSA, ASCE, AISC, ACI, etc.).
4. General understanding of all phases of project document production and the relationship between drawings and specifications.
5. Ability to participate and collaborate in project team setting and to engage in creative and critical thought.
6. Strong knowledge of structural systems means and methods, materials, and industry standards. Experience with heavy industrial structures is highly valued. This includes structural steel design and reinforced concrete design, for both substructures and superstructures.
7. Ability to check the work of others for accuracy and completeness and manage time to meet project budget and schedule.
8. Thorough understanding of structural engineering concepts and ability to effectively communicate ideas to others.
9. Experience with industry standard structural analysis software suites (STAAD.Pro, SAP 2000, etc.).
10. Knowledge of mathematical computational tools such as MathCAD and the ability to perform detailed structural calculations within this environment.
11. Knowledge of and ability to use standard computer applications including, but not limited to, Microsoft Office Suite.
12. Willingness to travel for project work, and possession of a valid driver’s license.

Education and Experience

1. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering.
2. Licensed Professional Engineer in a Canadian province and eligible for licensure in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
3. Minimum of 4 years of experience.
4. Graduate degree(s) and/or successful completion of the NCEES PE Exam are highly valued.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a well-being program, health care spending account, wellness spending accounts, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.

Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Primary Location : Canada-New Brunswick-Fredericton

Other Locations : Canada-New Brunswick-Saint John, Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador-St. John's, Canada-Nova Scotia-Dartmouth, Canada-New Brunswick-Moncton

Organization : BC-1335 Energy-CA Atlantic

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Travel : Yes, 10 % of the Time

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Feb 21, 2025, 9:27:34 AM

Req ID: 250000RD

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