Senior Civil/Structural Designer

Job Description

Job description

Roles And Responsibilities

• Participate in front end design work leading up to the capital design phase of the project
• Lead the development of overall project scope, execution strategy, and cost estimate for funds request
• Execute project while meeting safety, cost and schedule goals
• Participate and/or lead Engineering Design and Review as required
• Be responsible for technical content and interfaces for scopes of work
• Prepare Scopes of work, Bills of Materials, and design documents for IFA and IFC.
  
  

Structural Designer:

• Design reinforced concrete structures including drilled piers, spread footings, concrete and masonry retaining walls, building foundations, and large mat footings
• Design Pipe supports
• Design steel stairways and platforms
• Design tank foundations
• Retrofit design work for steel and concrete structures
• Paving and grading plans
• Steel building framework systems
• Underground structures including tunnels and vaults
  
  

Experience And Skills Requirements

• Demonstrated knowledge of Civil / Structural Design practices.
• Able to plan and organize projects from inception to commissioning
• Ability to work in and foster a strong team environment with minimal supervision
• Knowledge of chemical and/or refinery facilities and integration of project work in these facilities
• Strong safety champion who will lead the project in achieving zero incidents and injuries
• Self-motivated with ability to originate and adapt to new ideas
• Able to handle multiple activities simultaneously
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  
  

Proficient in use of following:

• AISC Standards and Specifications
• Structural design/analysis applications such as STAAD
• ACI 318 Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete
• ASCE 7 Standard including working knowledge of all seismic and wind design requirements for building and non-building structures
• OSHA as related to standard industrial practice
• PIP (Process Industry Practices) STC01015 Structural Design Criteria or equivalent
• Working knowledge of MS Office products (Excel, Word, Project, etc.)
• Strong desire to learn and work in a team environment
• AutoCAD Civil/Structural tools
• CADWorx Civil/Structural tools
• Use of 3D laser scan data to facilitate design.
  
  

Desirable Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

Knowledge of gated work process for project management:

• Knowledge of Chemical and/or refinery plants
• Good negotiation skills
• Good meeting facilitation skills
  
  

Physical Requirements:

Mental Abilities: General learning ability. The ability to “catch on” or understand instructions and underlying principles.

Required Mental Abilities:

• Ability to understand and follow oral instruction
• Ability to understand and follow written instruction
• Ability to guide and/or give instructions
• Ability to make decisions in accordance with established procedures and policies
  
  

Speaking/Talking/Verbal Abilities: Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them and to use them effectively. To comprehend language, to understand relationships between words, and to understand meanings of whole sentences and paragraphs. To present information or ideas clearly.

Required Speaking/Talking/Verbal Abilities:

• Answer telephone or radio
• Communicating with supervisors
• Communicating with subordinates
  
  

Required Hearing/Listening Abilities:

• For communication with coworkers
  
  

Required Reading Abilities:

• Essential to job function
  
  

Spatial Abilities: Ability to comprehend forms in space and understand relationships of plane and solid objects. May be used in such tasks as blue print reading and in solving geometry problems. Frequently described as the ability to “visualize” objects of two and three dimensions, or to think visually of geometric forms.

Required Spatial Abilities:

• Essential to job function
  
  

Motor Coordination: Ability to coordinate eyes and hands or fingers rapidly and accurately in making precise movements with speed. Ability to make a movement response accurately and quickly.

Required Motor Coordination:

• Essential to job function
  
  

Required Manual Dexterity:

• Use telephone
• Use radio/console
• Use a calculator
• Use a copy machine
• Manipulate computer keyboard
• Use and respond to 4-gas monitor
  
  

Physical Demands:

Strength:The quality, state, or property of being strong. The power to withstand strain, force, or stress.

• Ability to manipulate office materials and/or equipment (lbs)
  
  

Required Strength:

• Occasionally Lift 10-15lbs
• Occasionally Push/Pull 10-15lbs
• Occasionally Hold/Carry 10-15lbs
  
  

Required Physical Manipulation performed from:

• Ground to waist
• Waist level
• Waist to shoulder
• Above shoulder
  
  

Required Climbing Abilities: To move up or mount stairs and ladders by using the hands or feet. Frequency is occasional as required by job duties:

• Step stool ladder
• 8’ to 10’ ladder
• Extension ladder
• Stairs, 1-3 or more flights
  
  

Required Ability to Stand, Sit, Walk:

• Frequency is occasional as required by job duties 9 plus hours per day.
  
  

Required ability to walk over terrain conditions:

• Flat
• Rough
• Frequency is occasional as required by job duties 9 plus hours per day.
  
  

Stooping, Kneeling, Crouching, and/or Crawling: To bend forward or down from the middle of the waist or the middle of the back, to bend downwards, to lower oneself and/or to move freely on hands and knees.

• Required daily amounts 50 times as required by job duties 9 plus hours per day.
  
  

Reaching, Handling, Fingering, and/or Feeling: To stretch out, extend, or put forth a bodily part. To touch or grasp something, by extending or stretching. To touch, lift, hold or operate with the hands.

• Required daily amounts 50 times as required by job duties 9 plus hours per day.
  
  

Vision: To perceive or comprehend by the sense of sight. These characteristics are necessary and essential to job function.

Required Vision Abilities:

• Peripheral vision
• Night vision
• Focus (distinctness or clarity)
• Color perception (discriminate between colors)
• Depth perception (determine distance relationship between objects)
  
  

Driving: The ability to operate or convey in a motor vehicle.

Required Driving Abilities:

• Car, Truck or Van with automatic transmission.
  
  

Company Description

Magnum Technical Services (MTS) provides multi-discipline engineering services to the chemical, petro-chemical, refining, oil and gas, metals, hi-tech, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and pulp and paper industries. Located in Houston Texas, MTS has positioned itself to provide its clients with the highest level of consulting services while maintaining that personal touch so richly coveted by clients in today’s global economy.

Magnum Technical Services (MTS) provides multi-discipline engineering services to the chemical, petro-chemical, refining, oil and gas, metals, hi-tech, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and pulp and paper industries. Located in Houston Texas, MTS has positioned itself to provide its clients with the highest level of consulting services while maintaining that personal touch so richly coveted by clients in today’s global economy.