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About the job

Stanley Consultants is an award-winning and industry-leading global consulting engineering firm, with an unmatched commitment to culture, values, and ethics. We are dedicated to client experience and solve the most complex challenges to create a sustainable, connected, and enriched world for all. As the world changes, Stanley strategically evolves with it, integrating the latest technology, innovation, and resiliency practices.

With over a century of experience serving the energy, federal government, transportation, and water sectors, we have helped improve lives and shape the infrastructure systems that connect us. As an employee-owned organization with a People First approach, we stand apart from other engineering consulting and services firms. At Stanley, your voice counts, your growth matters, and your success is our success.

Stanley Consultants offers flexible work options, competitive pay and great benefits, a strong sense of community, and the chance to build a meaningful, long-term career!

Job Title - Senior Structural Engineer Location - Denver, CO (Centennial) | or Muscatine, IA Job Type – Hybrid Requisition ID - 11412 Stanley Consultants is seeking a senior-level structural engineer to provide technical leadership and deliver complex infrastructure work for transportation, industrial, energy, and federal clients. The role emphasizes structural design, multidisciplinary coordination, technical mentoring, and client collaboration on projects in the United States and abroad.

What You Will Be Doing:

Support industrial and energy projects, including structural support for mechanical systems, HVAC equipment, equipment foundations, slabs, pits, and industrial structures.

Perform and manage structural design for new buildings, renovations, and utility-related facilities.

Determine client requirements and develop reports, specifications, drawings, instructions, and related documents.

Participate in predesign site visits and design charrettes, as required.

Assist with fee estimates, scopes of work, and design schedules for proposals.

Coordinate with EITs and designers on calculations, drawings, and related documentation.

Coordinate technical work within the structural team and interface with other disciplines.

Evaluate design changes and communicate recommendations to project managers and clients.

Serve as technical liaison between project teams and client representatives.

Visit construction sites to monitor progress.

Work compensated overtime when needed for project and team workload.

Required Qualifications:

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering with a structural emphasis, or a related discipline.

Experience and Technical Capabilities

At least 8 years of experience.

Experience designing spread footings, mat foundations, slab-on-grade systems, drilled piers, and other deep foundation systems.

Experience serving as structural lead on multiple concurrent and/or large projects.

Proficiency in reinforced-concrete and structural-steel design.

Demonstrated experience leading structural engineering projects and coordinating multidisciplinary teams.

Strong knowledge of ICC building codes, ASCE standards, ACI concrete design standards, and AISC steel design standards.

Excellent written and verbal communication with clients and team members.

Professional Engineer (PE) license, or ability to obtain licensure within six months of hire.

Preferred Qualifications:

Ability to travel internationally.

Experience with seismic design of buildings and non-building structures.

Experience designing equipment and machinery foundations subject to dynamic or operational loads.

Preferred Software

RISA-3D

RISAFloor

RISAFoundation

Mathcad

LPILE

Work-Life BalanceWe realize there’s more to life than just work. We help you meet the demands of work, family and personal life through several flexible options.

What we offer: Member-Owned. Member-ownership is at the heart of our culture, aligning client satisfaction, company performance, and personal reward. Paid Time Away. Stanley Consultants offers numerous paid holidays, generous paid time off (PTO), parental leave, and professional development leave. Health Insurance. We provide a comprehensive insurance package including medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, Doctor On Demand, wellness reimbursement, and mental health resources. Financial Health. We offer life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, identity theft protection, and many other benefits. Professional Growth. When your skills grow, so do we, which is why we offer tuition assistance, professional society membership, and more. Financial Rewards. We share our prosperity with members through company stock ownership, a generous 401K match, incentive compensation, and profit-sharing contributions to retirement 401K plans. Click Here: A Great Place To Work

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)