Senior Structural Design Engineer – Power Systems

Kiewit; Woodcliff Lake (NJ); On-site; USD 136,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Kiewit Power Engineering is seeking a Senior Structural Design Engineer to join the Design Engineering team. The role supports the construction process through innovative design, structural calculations, and development of plans, while mentoring junior staff and ensuring safety and quality standards.

The position offers opportunities across North America with diverse projects in power generation, delivery, and environmental retrofits. Based in multiple U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering required.
• 10–20 years of relevant experience in Industrial or Power Generation.
• Leads team for high-complexity work and coordinates across disciplines.
• Trains and mentors engineers and serves as a technical resource.
• Communicates effectively across departments to solve problems.

Responsibilities

• Develops and checks less experienced engineers to solve design issues.
• Identifies alternate solutions that relates to quality and best cost options.
• Generates solution strategies that allow use of others to work toward the solution.
• Interacts effectively with other groups to find best solutions to complex issues.
• Reviews and corrects the work of engineers and designers developing engineering and design documents as needed for the project.
• Provides resolutions for technically complex issues.
• Develops mid to major-sized project or proposals with no supervision.
• Leads others in project objectives consistent with that of the organization.
• Considers multiple solutions and makes good decisions based on good data analysis.
• Manages several different assignments simultaneously.
• Creates innovative working methods to generate new ideas.
• Uses resources to identify new solutions and finds best cost solutions.
• Serves as resource to less experienced engineers.
• Reviews application of standards for correct interpretation.
• Leads projects in how to interpret and apply codes and standards.
• Leads team to identify changes in the scope of work during large-sized projects.
• Produces design changes as needed to stay within budget and schedule.
• Recognizes the importance of customer needs.
• Performs and leads quality checks of the design and engineering of major-sized project to ensure accuracy.
• Plans work independently with no supervision and consults others on technical details of their work.

Skills

Independent methods

Team leadership

High-complexity work

Cross-department communication

Problem solving

Technical presentations

Cross-discipline initiative

Process improvement

Written/verbal clarity

Disciplined coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering

Job description

Kiewit Power Engineering is seeking a Senior Structural Design Engineer to join the Design Engineering team. The role supports the construction process through innovative design, structural calculations, and development of plans, while mentoring junior staff and ensuring safety and quality standards.

The position offers opportunities across North America with diverse projects in power generation, delivery, and environmental retrofits. Based in multiple U.S.