Structural Engineer
Top Benefits
About the role
Your Opportunity
Stantec is seeking an experienced Structural Engineer to join our highly successful water practice in Burnaby, BC. As a Structural Engineer your role is to work with minimal supervision on small to medium sized projects, and as a team member on larger projects. You will participate in the design, coordination, and specification for structural engineering systems for a variety of projects with applicable codes and engineering standards/practices.
This is an office-based position and requires attendance at the Stantec Burnaby office 5 days a week.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Provide mentoring and informal guidance to junior level staff, may assist in assigning tasks, providing coaching, and checking work.
- Perform structural analysis and design for a variety of concrete, steel, masonry, and wood structures.
- Writing and editing technical reports, engineering studies, and technical specifications.
- Support construction projects with field site visits and construction observation duties.
- Coordinate design work with project team members, other disciplines, and other offices.
- Participate in client project requirement meetings and value analysis and cost estimating
- Assist upper-level staff with developing and managing the project scope, budget, staffing and schedule
- Work on multiple projects, simultaneously
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Requisite knowledge and application of structural design codes, standards, and applicable building codes
- General understanding of all phases of project document production and the relationship between drawings and specifications
- Strong knowledge of structural systems, means and methods, materials, and industry standards
- Ability to participate and collaborate in project team setting and to engage in creative and critical thought
- Thorough understanding of structural engineering concepts and ability to effectively communicate ideas to others
- Advanced oral and written communication skills
- Requires understanding of Microsoft Office Suite
- Experience with Revit and AutoCAD software considered an asset
- Experience using structural engineering/finite element analysis software: CSI Suite of analysis programs (SAP, ETABS and SAFE) is considered a preference.
Education and Experience
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in structural design on buildings and industrial structures, water experience is an asset.
- Engineering consulting experience required
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Civil/ Structural Engineering or related field
- Registered P. Eng. with Engineers and Geoscientists BC (EGBC) or equivalent
- Valid driver’s license is required. Position will work on-site at construction locations with some office work. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.
- Must be available to travel for out-of-town projects when needed.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other's talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. At Stantec, we live our corporate values every day.
- Stantec was ranked the 5th most sustainable company in the world and the 1st in North America by Corporate Knights for our 2020 performance.
- In February 2021, Stantec announced a pledge to be carbon neutral for 2022 and achieve operational net-zero by 2030.
- Stantec is the only engineering design firm that has been rated a Climate Leader with an A- score by CDP for the last three years.
- Stantec has been named by Forbes as one of the World’s Best Employers and America’s Best Employers for Women. Additionally, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society selected Stantec as one of the Top 50 workplaces for Indigenous STEM professionals.
Join us and redefine your personal best.
About Stantec
Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before.
We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more.
Today’s communities transcend geographic borders. At Stantec, community means everyone with an interest in the work that we do—from our project teams and industry colleagues to our clients and the people our work impacts. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure.
We are designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN.
Structural Engineer
Top Benefits
About the role
Your Opportunity
Stantec is seeking an experienced Structural Engineer to join our highly successful water practice in Burnaby, BC. As a Structural Engineer your role is to work with minimal supervision on small to medium sized projects, and as a team member on larger projects. You will participate in the design, coordination, and specification for structural engineering systems for a variety of projects with applicable codes and engineering standards/practices.
This is an office-based position and requires attendance at the Stantec Burnaby office 5 days a week.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Provide mentoring and informal guidance to junior level staff, may assist in assigning tasks, providing coaching, and checking work.
- Perform structural analysis and design for a variety of concrete, steel, masonry, and wood structures.
- Writing and editing technical reports, engineering studies, and technical specifications.
- Support construction projects with field site visits and construction observation duties.
- Coordinate design work with project team members, other disciplines, and other offices.
- Participate in client project requirement meetings and value analysis and cost estimating
- Assist upper-level staff with developing and managing the project scope, budget, staffing and schedule
- Work on multiple projects, simultaneously
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Requisite knowledge and application of structural design codes, standards, and applicable building codes
- General understanding of all phases of project document production and the relationship between drawings and specifications
- Strong knowledge of structural systems, means and methods, materials, and industry standards
- Ability to participate and collaborate in project team setting and to engage in creative and critical thought
- Thorough understanding of structural engineering concepts and ability to effectively communicate ideas to others
- Advanced oral and written communication skills
- Requires understanding of Microsoft Office Suite
- Experience with Revit and AutoCAD software considered an asset
- Experience using structural engineering/finite element analysis software: CSI Suite of analysis programs (SAP, ETABS and SAFE) is considered a preference.
Education and Experience
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in structural design on buildings and industrial structures, water experience is an asset.
- Engineering consulting experience required
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Civil/ Structural Engineering or related field
- Registered P. Eng. with Engineers and Geoscientists BC (EGBC) or equivalent
- Valid driver’s license is required. Position will work on-site at construction locations with some office work. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.
- Must be available to travel for out-of-town projects when needed.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other's talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. At Stantec, we live our corporate values every day.
- Stantec was ranked the 5th most sustainable company in the world and the 1st in North America by Corporate Knights for our 2020 performance.
- In February 2021, Stantec announced a pledge to be carbon neutral for 2022 and achieve operational net-zero by 2030.
- Stantec is the only engineering design firm that has been rated a Climate Leader with an A- score by CDP for the last three years.
- Stantec has been named by Forbes as one of the World’s Best Employers and America’s Best Employers for Women. Additionally, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society selected Stantec as one of the Top 50 workplaces for Indigenous STEM professionals.
Join us and redefine your personal best.
About Stantec
Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before.
We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more.
Today’s communities transcend geographic borders. At Stantec, community means everyone with an interest in the work that we do—from our project teams and industry colleagues to our clients and the people our work impacts. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure.
We are designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN.