Structural Design Engineer

Spectra Tech, Inc. is hiring multiple Structural Design Engineers - Greenville, South Carolina

Serve as a staff engineer handling engineering assignments of intermediate complexity. You'll apply essential technical knowledge, support EPC (engineering, procurement, and construction) activities, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver projects on scope, schedule, cost, and quality targets.

• Work under the direction of a Discipline Lead or Area Lead Engineer to analyze problems and recommend technical solutions of intermediate complexity.
• Develop and review specifications and design criteria.
• Perform and check engineering analyses and calculations; specify materials, equipment, and systems; resolve technical issues of intermediate complexity.
• Coordinate technical matters with other disciplines, project management, vendors, and clients.
• Execute work in accordance with the Project Quality Plan, approved scope, cost, and schedule baselines.
• Establish, control, and report key material quantities; provide related analysis and forecasts.
• Support procurement and subcontracting activities (scopes of work, technical bid evaluations, vendor submittal reviews).
• Support construction administration (respond to RFIs, address field changes).
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• B.S. in Civil or Structural Engineering plus minimum 5 years of related experience
• Working knowledge of applicable federal (including Department of Energy orders), state, and local codes and standards
• Effective communication skills with project management, coworkers, clients, vendors, and subcontractors
• Job-related technical knowledge necessary to complete assigned work
• Intermediate knowledge of discipline codes and standards
• Ability to work in compliance with local, state, and federal codes, statutes, and guidelines
• Strong attention to detail; able to work in a timeconscious, timeeffective manner
• Intermediate proficiency with common office software (word processing, email, spreadsheets, electronic presentations)
• Experience providing EPC services on commercial or industrial projects
• Proficiency executing EPC projects using engineering analysis, 3D modeling, and 2D CADD automation tools in a multi-discipline environment

• Intermediate ability to perform hand and computer calculations for foundations, concrete, and steel structures
• Intermediate knowledge of one or more structural design programs: STAAD, STAADPro, RISA3D
• Intermediate knowledge of Mathcad
• Intermediate knowledge of:
  • Analyzing complex structures
  • Wind and seismic loading in structural calculations
  • Dynamic analysis and design
  • Computer modeling and analysis
  • Blast design

• Professional Engineer (PE) license
• Experience designing systems, structures, and components for nuclear facilities under ASME NQA1 requirements
• Practical field experience
• EPC project experience in one or more of the following industries:
  • U.S. Department of Energy or other U.S. Federal Government agencies
  • Nuclear facilities under a nuclear quality assurance program
  • Manufacturing, pharmaceutical, or biotechnology
• Advanced proficiency with STAADPro and Mathcad

Design Experience (one of the following):

• Design and analysis of steel and concrete structures (reinforced concrete and structural steel) OR
• Design and analysis of commodity supports

Software Proficiency (all of the following):

• STAADPro, Excel, Mathcad

Code Knowledge (all of the following):

• ACI 318-14, ACI 349-13
• AISC N690-18
• ASCE 7-16, ASCE 4-16, ASCE 43-19
• IBC 2018