Structural Engineer

What You’ll Get to Do: 

Congress provided USACE with $17B in supplemental funding through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. This combined with a trend of record USACE annual funding appropriations and Emergency Supplemental Disaster Recovery Appropriations for USACE in 3 of the past 5 years totaling over $7B have the nation’s waterways set up for a ten-year program of design and construction. 

Tetra Tech’s design center is currently seeking a Structural Engineer to join our multi-discipline team which specializes in innovative planning, engineering, and design solutions for inland navigation structures including locks, waterfront structures, ports, dams, hydropower, flood risk reduction structures, fish passage structures, and bridges. In this position you will work closely with national industry leaders and local experts to support clients with structural design. This position offers multiple growth opportunities in both technical design expertise and project management as part of our team.

As an industry leader in USACE Engineering and Design support, Tetra Tech has placed contract capacity and been selected to lead the design of multiple ongoing top priority USACE projects, including rehabilitation of inland navigation lock and dam systems, design of new navigation locks, and coastal protection projects.  These projects represent a once in a generation investment in our nation’s waterways.  

As a Structural Engineer, you will work closely with national industry leaders and local experts to support clients with structural design. This position offers multiple growth opportunities, in both technical design expertise and project management. Come join our design team and be a part of a multi-discipline team working on these signature projects.  

Discover your full potential. At Tetra Tech, we are collaborating with industry-leading experts for a sustainable future for our world. We combine consulting and engineering with advanced analytics and technology to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Our innovation hubs across the globe will enable you to share ideas and best practices while growing your professional network. Wherever you are in your career journey, you will benefit from working with world-class engineers, scientists, and technical specialists.

Current and upcoming projects for our structural engineering group include:

New Lock Final Design: Tetra Tech will be designing a new 1200’ lock to be part of the U.S. Inland Waterway Navigation System. Work will include designing lock walls, guide walls and gates. At a second new 1200’ lock project, Tetra Tech will be developing design criteria, developing construction methodologies, and designing upstream and downstream guide walls.  

Dam and Reservoir Design: Tetra Tech is performing the 30% design for a new reservoir and four new dams in Colorado. The structural design will include preliminary design for two concrete dams, spillways, stilling basins, outlet works, and inlet works. 

Spillway Design: Our team will be designing a new spillway capable of passing both floods and downstream fish passage. 

Your Role:

• Structural design and analysis of civil works structures (flood walls, navigation locks, dam structures), waterfront structures, bridges and pump stations
• Produce calculations using engineering formulas for project design
• Perform quality control checks of calculations, drawings, and quantities.
• Research design options and document findings for senior engineers
• Solve problems using a combination of design standards and modified standard procedures or methods developed in prior assignments
• Read, interpret, and develop structural design plans
• Review and respond to shop drawings and RFIs during construction
• Provide information to senior engineers for incorporation into specifications
• Assign work and/or check design calculations and quantities from junior engineers
• Contact and coordinate with other departments to research appropriate course of action

Qualifications:

• BS in civil/structural engineering required (master's degree preferred)
• 5+ years of relevant structural engineering experience
• Professional Engineer (PE) certification required
• Experience with current structural design methods, codes and standards
• Experience with structural concrete and steel design
• Experience developing structural drawings
• Experience with structural computer-based design tools (such as SAP2000, SAFE, LPILE GROUP)
• Working knowledge of BIM, and/or CAD software platforms (such as Civil3D, AutoCAD, Revit, Bentley OpenBuildings, MicroStation)
• Working knowledge of 3D FEA structural analysis computer design tools (such as ANSYS)
• Microsoft Office software experience/understanding desired
• Demonstrated educational and relevant work experience showing strong analytical, written and verbal communication skills

What We Can Offer You:

• Work with multi-disciplinary teams, collaborating with other engineers including mechanical, electrical, and geotechnical to take projects from design through construction.
• An entrepreneurial-minded office that’s backed by the resources of a large, international company.
• A passionate team of co-workers who work hard and respect the importance of work-life balance - really!
• The opportunity to think outside the box to develop innovative solutions to client problems, and the support to implement your ideas.
• Our office is walking distance to restaurants and shopping.
• Free parking and easy freeway access.
• We are a highly collaborative team working flexibly in the office and from home. Our goal is to create a space that enables collaboration and excellence in delivery with opportunities for mentoring and growth.

The salary range or hourly wage for this position is approximately $85,000 to $115,000 depending on education, qualifications, experience and work location.

Tetra Tech offers comprehensive benefit options that allow employees to design a plan based on individual needs and assists in planning for long-term financial security. Available benefits include health insurance, term life, disability, accidental death & dismemberment coverage, paid time off (MFT), 401k, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.