Description
Perform structural analysis, design, and oversight for buildings, bridges, and other load-bearing systems, including foundations, frames, and connections, ensuring safety, serviceability, and code compliance from concept through construction, assessment, and repair.
- • Calculate gravity, lateral, and dynamic loads and member forces to establish structural design criteria.
- • Design steel, concrete, masonry, timber, and composite members, connections, and foundations for strength and serviceability.
- • Develop analytical models and perform finite element or frame analyses using structural software.
- • Prepare sealed calculations, drawings, specifications, and BIM models for permitting and construction.
- • Review and approve shop drawings, RFIs, and submittals; coordinate with architects, MEP, and contractors.
- • Inspect structural work during construction and perform special inspections to verify compliance with plans and codes.
- • Conduct condition assessments of existing structures and recommend repairs, retrofits, or seismic upgrades.
- • Design temporary works, shoring, bracing, and construction staging plans.
- • Interpret geotechnical reports and design shallow and deep foundations, retaining walls, and slabs-on-ground.
- • Evaluate material test results for concrete, welds, bolts, and reinforcing steel to confirm performance.
- • Prepare structural quantity takeoffs and cost estimates; support scheduling and value engineering.
- • Ensure compliance with IBC, ASCE 7, ACI, AISC, AASHTO, and other applicable codes and standards.
- • Identify structural risks and develop mitigation strategies for wind, seismic, vibration, fire, or progressive collapse.
- • Prepare technical reports, design narratives, and responses for clients, permitting agencies, and peer reviews.
- • Visit project sites to monitor progress, resolve field issues, and implement safe, constructible solutions.
- • Analyze architectural plans, surveys, and as-builts to coordinate grids, elevations, dimensions, and tolerances.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
