Principal Engineer-Structural Design Engineer

Pinnacle Specialty Group, Inc

$110K — $130K *
Aiken, SC 29803In-Person
Technical Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in science/engineering with 5+ years experience, OR MS with 8+ years, OR BS with 10+ years experience.
  • Minimum 10 years design and analysis experience in nuclear or industrial facilities.
  • Working knowledge of STAAD and major National Codes and Standards (IBC, AISC, ACI, AWS, NFPA, OSHA).
  • Proficiency in MicroStation 2D CADD software is preferred but not mandatory.
  • Current registration as a Professional Engineer in Civil or Structural Engineering is highly regarded.

Responsibilities

  • Define technical program scope and develop solutions for unique challenges.
  • Provide leadership in resolving complex problems with advanced technical practices.
  • Evaluate program results and prepare comprehensive reports and recommendations.
  • Utilize site systems to meet quality, timely, and cost-effective project objectives.
  • Mentor less senior professionals in technical guidance and problem-solving.
  • Prepare plans outlining schedules, budgets, and personnel needs for technical tasks.
  • Communicate results and objectives clearly to customers, colleagues, and management.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for leadership in local technical societies.
  • Creative problem-solving environment with patent disclosure potential.
  • Engagement in diverse and multifaceted engineering challenges.
  • Professional development through mentorship and collaboration.
  • Access to advanced technical resources and projects.
Full Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities
Define scope of technical programs and develop effective, quality solutions to challenges which involve unique or controversial problems. Creatively meet all company and industry requirements and apply site systems to achieve quality, timely and cost-effective results. Give quality guidance and assistance to less senior professionals on related tasks.

Apply technical experience in field of specialization or broad-based experience in multiple technical fields, to resolve complex problems.

Incorporate advanced technical practices and a variety of complex features such as complicated

technical requirements, application of new or special materials or processes and difficult coordination or oversight requirements into problem solving and program planning.

Provide leadership in determining solutions to complex problems and be recognized as having expertise in a functional area(s) of technical expertise.

Provide direction and position responsibility both inside and outside department lines on programs seeking new approaches to problems and new applications of existing engineering or scientific principles.

Evaluate the results of programs and prepare reports and recommendations based on these

evaluations.

Identify and recommend improvements where established technology components and methodology are inadequate for solution.

Keep informed of the advancement of technology as applied through one's area of technology.

Prepare plans including schedules, budgets and personnel requirements for solving technical tasks identified by management.

Develop schedules, monitor progress, monitor expenditures of budget and review quality of work

performed.

Develop schedules, monitor progress, monitor expenditures of budget and review quality of work

performed.

Communicate results and objectives verbally and in manuscripts form to customers colleagues and management.

Occasionally prepare reports for external publication.

Enhance expertise in field through leadership in local technical societies.

Demonstrate creative ability through medium of patent disclosures, problem solving, engineering

reports, technical papers and articles.

Education:

Ph.D. degree in applicable science or engineering discipline and 5+ years' experience. OR A

MS with 8+ years' experience. OR A BS with 10+ years' experience or more.

Additional Duties

- Provide design and construction oversight of structural engineering tasks to SRNS.

Structural engineering tasks include:

- Analysis of structural systems for both static and dynamic loads using manual

Computation and computer programs

- Design of concrete structures; design of steel, aluminum, stainless steel, timber

and composite structures

- Foundation and anchorage design

- Structural analysis for impact, overpressure, and other accident conditions

- Preparation of CSI specifications; and review of vendor documents

- Engineering services should be provided using SRNS processes and procedures.

Programmatic guidance will be provided by SRNS.

Additional Education

BS Degree in Civil Engineering or current registration as a Professional Engineer in

either Civil or Structural Engineering.

Additional Experience/Qualifications

The following experience/qualifications are required for this position:

- Candidate must demonstrate a minimum of ten (10) years of experience in

design and analysis of nuclear or industrial facilities.

- Candidate must demonstrate working knowledge of STAAD.

- Candidate must demonstrate working knowledge of National Codes and

Standards such as IBC, AISC (ASD and LRFD), ACI, AWS, NFPA, and OSHA.

- The following experience/qualifications are preferred for this position:

- Proficiency in using MicroStation 2D Computer Aided Drafting and Design

(CADD) software is preferred.

Additional Work Requirements

Candidate must be able to perform weekly field walk downs of the job site for the

engineering work being performed. These walk downs may involve construction

sites with uneven surfaces and work in progress, walking for distances of over half a

mile, climbing ladders to access remote areas, and dressing out in protective

clothing.

Work Environment / Physical Demands:

Work is performed in an office environment and requires the ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards. Light to moderate lifting may be required for packages and other items, ability to walk short distances, may be regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, reach, stoop, kneel, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, and keyboard.

Due to government and/or federal regulations for this position, proof of U.S. citizenship is required.

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