Retail Structural Leader & Nationwide Project Mentor

Make Choteau Home; Missoula (MT); On-site; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cushing Terrell is seeking a Senior Structural Engineer - Retail Team Leader to provide technical leadership for a growing nationwide team tackling retail tenant improvements and existing-building modifications. The role balances hands-on design with mentoring, standards development, and client collaboration to deliver high-quality projects.

You will lead staffing, recruit, coach engineers, and drive process improvements while maintaining design quality across a high-volume project program.

Qualifications

• Active Professional Engineer (PE) license
• 10+ years of structural engineering experience
• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering
• Experience delivering projects on a nationwide basis
• Experience with retail tenant improvements and existing-building modifications
• Strong communication skills and collaboration across teams

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and engineering for retail tenant improvement and existing-building modification projects nationwide
• Mentor and train early-career engineers and EITs, building technical skill and confidence across the team
• Develop and maintain internal engineering standards and repeatable processes for the Retail vertical
• Coordinate with Client Managers and multidisciplinary project teams to ensure consistent, on-time project delivery
• Manage staffing, resource planning, and recruiting for a growing Retail structural team
• Lead performance coaching and career development for direct reports
• Balance a high volume of smaller, quick-turnaround projects while maintaining technical quality and consistency across programs
• Bring practical, creative problem-solving to existing-structure challenges rather than defaulting to overly conservative solutions

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Project coordination

Staffing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering

Structural Engineer (SE) license

Tools

Bluebeam

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

RISA

AutoCAD

Revit

RAM Structural System

Job description

Cushing Terrell is seeking a Senior Structural Engineer - Retail Team Leader to provide technical leadership for a growing nationwide team tackling retail tenant improvements and existing-building modifications. The role balances hands-on design with mentoring, standards development, and client collaboration to deliver high-quality projects.

You will lead staffing, recruit, coach engineers, and drive process improvements while maintaining design quality across a high-volume project program.