Senior Structural Engineer

Celtic Engineering, Inc., a leader in structural and specialty engineering within the Entertainment/Hospitality and mechanical/machine engineering industries, seeks a Senior Structural Engineer for our Windermere, FL office.

A successful candidate will be a currently active professionally-licensed engineer (PE) in the State of Florida who will lead technical scopes of a project with minimal oversight, executing responsibility for the detailed analysis and/or design of structural components and systems associated with facilities and nonbuilding structures.

As an experienced licensed Senior Structural Engineer, you will lead tasks for which you are proficient, and will develop project and staff leadership skills along the way. You will have the opportunity and choice to further develop professionally as a technical leader or subject matter expert, or may choose to develop along the Project Management path.

Who is Celtic Engineering?

For almost 20 years, Celtic Engineering, Inc. has prided ourselves on engineering innovation and cost-effective solutions that are iconic and recognizable all over the world. Our company is a leading structural and specialty engineering firm in the Entertainment/Hospitality Industry as well as in the mechanical/machine engineering industry. As one of The Florida Business Journal’s Fast 100 companies of 2015, our firm employs creative thinking innovators who solve the evolving problems presented in our industry: technical engineering challenges, complex analyses, dynamic analyses, and creative architectural and attraction designs. Some of our exciting projects worldwide include iconic structures, hotels, themed facilities, show and show set design, roller coaster and other ride systems, and other unique, complex structures.

Your Contributions to Our Team:

Lead the engineering gravity and lateral system selection and layout, and the technical analysis and design for the project.

Determine codes, loads, analysis methods and tools appropriate.

Leverage your comprehensive design and analytical experience with different building materials including steel, concrete, timber, and masonry.

Preferred but not required:

working knowledge of design and analysis with fiber reinforced polymers, aluminum, and stainless steel.

experience with seismic analysis and detailing.

experience with analysis of dynamic structures, vibrations, fatigue.

Mentor junior engineers working under your direction.

Proactively plan and execute work with increasing levels of engineering responsibility and often serving as EOR for the project.

Demonstrate engineering creativity, flexibility, and adaptability to satisfy the client and the engineer’s obligation to the public.

Supervise the production of structural drawing packages, sketches, and engineering reports.

Oversee and contribute to the production of site observations, conditions assessments, and construction administration.

Oversee and perform engineering analysis and calculations including industry-leading structural analysis software packages

What Contributions Do You Bring with You?

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering (required).

Graduate degree with emphasis in Structural Engineering is preferred but not required.

Seven years minimum experience working with IBC-style building codes and national standards in the USA.

Five years minimum working knowledge and proficiency with a major commercial structural analysis and design software suite, eg SAP2000, ETABS, RISA3D structural software suites.

Excellent problem-solving skills and communication abilities.

Professional Engineer (PE) License in a US state (preferred, or ability to obtain within 12-18 months).

Experience with Building Information Modeling (BIM) is preferred but not required. Celtic Engineering works most often in Revit and Autocad.

Ability to interpret and design using codes and standards from international jurisdictions is preferred but not required.