Senior / Principal Structural Engineer

WorleyParsons; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 123,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering services company is looking for a Senior / Principal Structural Engineer to join their Denver team. The successful candidate will provide expert guidance in structural design and analysis for various projects, ensuring compliance with industry standards. This role emphasizes collaboration with customers and fellow engineers, enhancing project delivery in alignment with sustainable objectives.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in structural engineering.
• Must have a PE license in Colorado or another state.
• Strong report writing skills and verbal communication in English.

Responsibilities

• Perform structural engineering design and calculations.
• Build positive relationships with customers and contractors.
• Conduct job site walk-downs for assessment and observation.

Skills

Communication

Structural Design

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Civil/Structural Engineering

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

AutoCAD 2D

AutoCAD 3D

MS Office Suite

Sbase

MathCAD

Job description

Job Description - Senior / Principal Structural Engineer (DEN0068)

Senior / Principal Structural Engineer - DEN0068

Company : Worley

Primary Location

Job

Job

: Structural

Schedule

Schedule

: Full-time

Employment Type : Employee

Job Level : Experienced

Job Posting

Job Posting

: Apr 24, 2025

Unposting Date

Unposting Date

: Aug 6, 2025

Reporting Manager Title : Structural Engineering Department Manager

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Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia.

Right now, we’re bridging two worlds as we accelerate to more sustainable energy sources, while helping our customers provide the energy, chemicals, and resources that society needs now.

We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their portfolio of assets. We solve complex problems by finding integrated data-centric solutions from the first stages of consulting and engineering to installation and commissioning, to the last stages of decommissioning and remediation. Join us and help drive innovation and sustainability in our projects.

Senior / Principal Structural Engineer

Purpose of the Role:

Within the Denver, CO Structural Engineering team, the Senior / Principal Structural Engineer will provide structural engineering services performing structural analysis and design calculations in conformance with engineering principles, industry standards, and applicable codes on small to mid-capital projects to Worley and its customers.

Responsibilities:

• Perform structural engineering design, including preparation, review, and checking of engineering calculations and design sketches for steel structures, equipment foundation, piling and concrete foundations for accuracy. Supports the processes for checking, peer reviews, and incorporation of comments and findings.
• Incorporates generally accepted engineering and design practices, techniques, and relevant regulatory requirements, for the control, development, and application of deliverables per customer specifications to support technical excellence.
• Support colleagues by fostering positive working relationships. Builds positive working relationships with external parties such as the customer, suppliers, and contractors.
• Perform job site walk-downs to observe new construction, assess existing conditions or features for suitability to retrofit or change of use.
• Participate in department/discipline functions related to quality control of deliverables, staying current with codes, standards of practice and advancing technologies related to engineering delivery and construction materials.
• Compile data and compute material quantities related to structural disciplines.
• Ensures discipline technical work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.
• Gathers data from multiple sources and prepares engineering studies, analyses, calculations, etc. Crafts recommendations and creates final documentation.
• Determines technical issues, defines, and implements innovative alternate solutions, establishes pros/cons for multiple solutions, and makes recommendations through official project documents such as technical queries, technical deviations, etc.
• Creates final documentation incorporating all relevant information and pursues customer approval. May review similar documentation to assist others and reviews/authorizes work done peers.
• Seeks input from knowledgeable sources, may participate in constructability, operability, and maintainability reviews to incorporate requirements into engineering design.

Qualifications:

Technical/Industry Experience Requirements:

• A minimum of 8 years’ relevant experience in oil and gas, mining and metals, or related projects.
• Good understanding of ASCE 7, ACI 318, AISC 360 and IBC.
• Working knowledge of PIP standards.
• Familiarity with Staad, LPile, MathCAD, MS Office suite.
• Basic knowledge of AutoCAD 2D and Navisworks 3D. AutoCAD 3D knowledge preferred but not required.
• Willingness to perform job site visits per project requirement. Occasional local travel to site up to 20%, per project requirement.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, including engineering related vocabulary. Technical report writing skills to effectively communicate analysis and evaluation findings and recommendations.
• Must have a current Colorado PE license or a PE license in another state with the ability to obtain a Colorado PE license. SE license in at least one state preferred.

Education – Qualifications, Accreditation, Training:

Required:Bachelor’s degree in Civil/Structural Engineering with structural emphasis.

Preferred: Master’s degree is preferred but not required.

Additional information:

• Salary: $123,356/year to $181,406/year

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