Structural Designer - Federal

Why Black and Veatch

Black and Veatch allows you to lend your talent and perspective to humanity’s biggest challenges in a flexible environment where you are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities. We offer competitive compensation and benefits that start day one. Our hybrid environment allows you to balance your work and personal life. At Black and Veatch, you own your career with purpose and meaning. You are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities at every step of your career journey. Bring your big ideas knowing you are safe to be who you are and speak up with concerns or questions and put your diverse talents and perspectives to use.

The Opportunity

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

Function in a senior level engineering technician capacity. With minimal supervision, performs advanced functions requiring knowledge and use of electronic applications, standards and document control processes/procedures in support of creating and modifying deliverables. May provide technical guidance and direction to other engineering professionals including delegation of work assignments.

Please Note: This role can be tied to any Black and Veatch office location. It is a plus if you live in Kansas City, Missouri or Arlington, Virginia.

The Team

As part of BV Operations, your skills will be aligned to projects that support our 3 market sectors- Governments & Environment, Energy & Process Industries, and Connectivity & Commercial. In roles like Engineers, Technicians, and Skilled Specialists you will be engaged with exciting projects across the globe. From small community improvements to grand-scale Mega Projects, you will be Building a World of Difference through infrastructure growth and development while learning and focusing on your own individual development. The foundation of BV Operations provides the ability to move where your skills are needed and allows for a collaborative and innovative culture offering greater challenges and career development opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Standards:

• Continues to learn and remains current on standards, systems, document control, departmental guides and Black and Veatch policies and procedures  

Quality / Continuous Improvement:

• Begins to proactively apply knowledge of the Black and Veatch Quality Program to ensure that the deliverables are accurate and compliant  
• Demonstrates personal accuracy and supports continuous improvement and change management efforts  

Engineering Production: 

• Broadening the use of applications to learn to continuously evaluate and improve methods, processes and procedures used to accomplish deliverables 
• Create and develop deliverables based on a variety of design inputs 
• May perform basic computations such as material quantity estimates and dimensional checks  

Project Coordination:

• Assist in coordinating deliverables with other groups involved on the same project to minimize interference or errors  

Client Focus:

• Focuses on the needs of internal clients while gaining basic understanding of external client's main interests and drivers  

Knowledge Sharing, Innovation and Technology:

• Proactively seeks and shares knowledge of latest technologies and processes 

Preferred Qualifications

• Diploma or Certificate preferred  
• Associate Degree in Drafting or an Engineering Design Related Technology preferred 
• Typically a minimum of 2 years related work experience  

Preferred Non-Technical Skills:

• Learning on the Fly
• Problem Solving
• Perseverance
• Patience
• Time Management
• Drive for Results
• Self Development
• Listening
• Informing 

Preferred Technical Skills:

• Understands and applies Computer Automated Drafting Design (CADD), Revit, information modeling or other applications or design or modeling skills and/or design principles and practices
• Basic knowledge of engineering standards, systems, document control, departmental guides and Black and Veatch policies and procedures
• Basic industry knowledge and technology trends
• Basic knowledge of company quality program . Intermediate ability to interpret engineering deliverable content as assigned
• Basic knowledge of other disciplines
• Basic knowledge of construction and constructability practices and principles 

Minimum Qualifications

All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Work Environment/Physical Demands

Normal office environment

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