Independent Contractor Telecom Structural Engineer Jobs in Texas

Job Description: 
Join Terracon as a Structural Engineer and help shape the future of our growing Engineering team within our Building Performance Services.
This role specializes in investigation, remedial design, and consulting support for the rehabilitation of building structures and enclosures focused on steel and concrete infrastructure. This position is based in the San Antonio, Texas area and supports projects throughout Texas.
This position is available in multiple locations, including San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, and Houston, providing flexibility based on your preferred city.
This is an opportunity to take on meaningful responsibility early-ranging from client development to delivering complex, highquality projects focused on steel and concrete infrastructure. Our work centers on diagnostics, remedial design, and consulting, giving you exposure to challenging, realworld engineering problems where your expertise matters. The position includes periodic travel around Texas and, depending on business needs, occasional national travel.
You'll collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary team that includes BEC, architects, owners, and civil, mechanical, and electrical engineers-broadening your technical perspective while making a visible impact. At Terracon, quality, integrity, and doing what's right for our people are core to everything we do. Solving building issues and restoring value for our clients is key to this role.
If you're looking for a career-defining opportunity with room to grow and challenging work alongside a collaborative team within a company that continues to prosper for our employee-owners, we'd love to connect. 

 

From general practitioners to specialists, our national Facilities professionals know facility systems from curb to rooftop. As a member of our team, you'll join licensed architects and engineers delivering services for new construction and existing facilities including building enclosure consulting and testing, facility asset management, due diligence, ADA and accessibility consulting, facility condition assessments, and more. Be it one parking lot or a 100-building portfolio, we create sustainable options for our clients' buildings, assess and extend service life where applicable, increase performance, and help them maximize the value of their capital expenditures.

Requirements:

• 5+ years' experience in Structural Engineering design, diagnostic review, and assessment
• Professional Engineer licensure (PE) in Texas
• B.S. in civil engineering or architectural engineering
• Valid driver's license and acceptable driving record

Preferred:

• Experience working safely in challenging environments, including crawlspaces, suspended scaffolding, vertical heights, and mid- to high-rise building facades and roofs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize observations, conclusions, and work requirements in both text and drawings.
• Detail-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Prior experience with industry analytical and drafting tools is preferred. Revit proficiency is highly preferred.
• SE Credentials a plus
• Experience in staff management and operations also a plus

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• Provide structural engineering and consulting services, including remedial structural design (primarily for existing buildings), failure investigations, condition assessments, analytical studies, rehabilitation of existing and historic structures, specialty structural design, and preparation of structural shop drawings. Focus is steel and concrete.
• Collaborate closely with diverse clients, including architects and engineers; private and public owners; local and state governments; educational, recreational, and cultural institutions; real estate and development firms; and general contractors and subcontractors.
• Provide design expertise and perform and/or oversee the design and preparation of construction documents for a variety of projects within this office.
• Develop and prepare proposals for professional services, including a detailed scope of services, fee development, and project schedule.
• Prepare professional reports with clear, logical presentation of technical ideas and recommendations.
• Lead multidisciplinary building engineering teams (junior through senior staff) and coordinate personnel, equipment, and technical experts to deliver projects on schedule and within budget.
• Supervise and mentor junior and/or less-experienced staff; cross-train team members on structural services as needed.
• Be actively involved in one or more technical/professional associations.
• Support group and office business development efforts by strengthening existing client relationships and helping develop new clients.