Sr Civil Structural Engineer – Pittsburgh, PA area

Why Join This Team?

This established engineering and construction company has been a trusted partner in glass manufacturing for 75 years. Engineers here thrive in an entrepreneurial environment with minimal bureaucracy, quick decision-making, and exposure to large-scale projects. As they expand into power generation and controlled environment agriculture, growth opportunities abound. The company values ethics, efficiency, and profitability, offering a dynamic work environment with diverse projects. Competitive salary, paid overtime, strong benefits, and relocation assistance make this a compelling career move.

Your Impact:

As a Senior Civil & Structural Engineer, you’ll design and develop steel and concrete structures for glass manufacturing facilities. You’ll lead best practices, optimize designs, and ensure projects meet cost, schedule, and quality goals. This role offers the opportunity to guide a team, collaborate across disciplines, and see projects through from concept to completion.

What you will be doing:

·         Perform civil and structural engineering tasks including design of steel and concrete structures to support glass batching, melting, forming, annealing and handling processes.

·         Provide engineering and installation cost estimates

·         Analyze and select steel and structural components

·         Coordinate the preparation of studies, reports, designs, specifications, bills of material, sketches, diagrams, schematic drawings, and final working/construction drawings

·         Work cross functionally within a project team environment, interfacing with and guiding the efforts of junior engineers and other design team members

·         Manage disciplined activities to be on schedule, within budget and to meet all quality requirements

·         Maintain civil and structural component specifications and drawing standards

·         Develop approved vendor and material lists for each civil and structural component

·         Provide activity reports as required to the Engineering Manager

·         Manage the review of all civil and structural bids for specification and bill of material compliance prior to final order placement

·         Manage final project completion organization of as-built drawings, vendor manuals and drawings and documentation for both client delivery and internal archives

·         Provide proper documentation and engineering support during construction, commissioning and start-up activities 

·         Work and communicate with other Engineering Discipline Leaders to accurately and efficiently complete projects 

·         Plan and coordinate equipment inspections and factory acceptance tests prior to shipment to project site

What you will need:

·         Expertise in steel layout and detail design knowledge in glass, energy, power, steel or other industrial experience.

·         10-15 plus years glass design and application, or equivalent experience

·         Demonstrated ability to take a project from concept to implementation

·         Ability to direct designers

·         Willing to travel 35% to 45%

·         Bachelor's Degree in Structural or Civil Engineering (PE is a plus)