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Job Title: Senior Structural Design Lead (Industrial & Capital Infrastructure)
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Structural Design Lead to take ownership of complex structural modeling and design documentation for large-scale capital projects. This is a "career-level" role for a designer who is ready to function as the primary structural interface on complex, multi-discipline project teams. You will move beyond simple drafting to lead structural design for specific building areas or systems, ensuring that our deliverables are constructible, code-compliant, and perfectly coordinated with other trades.
The ideal candidate is a technical problem-solver who can take high-level design direction and translate it into precise, 3D structural models and construction packages. You will serve as a mentor to junior designers and act as the technical anchor during interdisciplinary coordination meetings, ensuring that structural integrity is maintained while meeting aggressive project schedules.
Key Responsibilities
Design Leadership & Ownership
• System Design & Layout: Plan and conduct complex structural layout work, applying engineering judgment and creativity to resolve design challenges.
• Deliverable Excellence: Lead the creation, coordination, and publication of all structural deliverables, including 3D models, plan sets, elevations, sections, and structural schedules.
• Standalone Capability: Act as a standalone technical entity on smaller-scale initiatives, interfacing directly with project engineers, owners, and external stakeholders to define goals and requirements.
• Coordination Lead: Function as a structural lead on large-scale, multi-discipline projects. Oversee the work of junior/intermediate designers to ensure accuracy, completeness, and adherence to project-wide standards.
Interdisciplinary Coordination & Field Support
• Conflict Resolution: Coordinate designs across all trades (architectural, mechanical, electrical, process) to resolve spatial conflicts and ensure constructability.
• Field Surveying: Perform onsite field surveys to document existing conditions, ensuring that design packages account for site-specific realities.
• Quality Assurance: Perform high-level "back-checking" and quality reviews on the work of the entire structural team.
• Design Oversight: Review and process submittal documents, provide specification input, and represent structural interests in design status meetings.
Qualifications & Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
• Education: Associate degree in CAD/Design or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience Baseline: Minimum of six (6) to ten (10) years of structural design experience in a professional engineering consulting or industrial environment.
• Software Mastery:
oExtensive proficiency in Revit for structural modeling and design documentation.
oStrong proficiency in AutoCAD.
oNavisworks and Bluebeam expertise (essential for model review and clash coordination).
• Technical Knowledge: Deep understanding of building codes, structural standards, and industry best practices.
• Project Awareness: Solid grasp of project scope, schedule, and how design activities impact the total project budget.
Preferred Attributes
• Proven experience serving as an Area Lead or Discipline Lead on large-scale capital projects.
• Ability to develop labor estimates and design effort forecasts.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve complex technical design challenges and present "win-win" solutions to clients.
• Experience supporting industrial, manufacturing, or heavy-infrastructure capital projects.
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Additional Skills
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AllSTEM Representative Contact Info
Account Executive:
Perry
Branch Phone:
(909) 244-1777
Location:
Houston, TX