Job Description

Why Black and Veatch

Black & 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; 401K match and benefits that start day 1. 

Our hybrid environment allows you to balance your work and personal life. At Black & 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

As the  Senior Marine Structural Engineer , you will have the opportunity to:

• Provide marine structural engineering related design, analysis, and studies for domestic and international marine, coastal and heavy civil projects. Specific experience in design and inspection of marine structures including docks, marinas, wharves, piers, steel, timber and concrete pile structures, floating structures, breakwaters, seawalls, bulkheads, and waterfront facilities. Experience with design hydraulic structures will be a plus.
• Function as a technical leader in a regional practice lead capacity, in a role that implements engineering strategy and advises on national practice strategy on Coast and Flood Infrastructure projects. 
• Execute assigned projects and mentor younger professionals

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Standards:

Proactively provides guidance and direction

Interpreting, applying and providing direction to larger assigned tasks

May own the maintaining, updating, and developing engineering standards

Provide technical guidance to others regarding projects or disciplines

Quality / Continuous Improvement:

Establishes related processes, and promotes a culture that is conducive to quality

Supports continuous improvement, change management and risk management efforts

Engineering Production:

Accountable for managing engineering design-related aspects of complex project(s) or small multiple projects, including engineering schedule and budget performance, quality of engineering solutions and deliverables, and coordination of design, procurement, and construction

Orchestrates all technical aspects of complex projects and makes project engineering execution decisions within the bounds set by applicable policies, standards, guides and contract commitments

Responsible for the following: leading production teams; coordinating multiple discipline activity; and serving as the responsible charge for projects

Establishes work plan to be applied to a given project

Project Coordination:

Responsible for coordinating project schedules for multiple disciplines

Client Focus :

Communicates client interests and drivers to project team members and develops approaches to accommodate these concerns in the performance of the work on complex projects

Works to identify future client needs and how to better position Black and Veatch for the future

Typically provides support to business development or pursuit activities

Knowledge Sharing, Innovation and Technology:

Serves as the senior level technical specialist in a broad area of specialization, or in a narrow but specialized field

Develops and applies advanced engineering concepts and approaches to unique engineering problems

Typical roles include being recognized as an industry expert, participating in professional societies by presenting papers, acting as a section lead for a large or complex specialty area, an engineering consultant for larger scale projects

Often supports a division chief engineer or top engineering management, and is accountable for discipline-specific engineering processes

People Management:

Provides direction to a small size group

Typically oversees performance management, career planning, recognition, learning and development

May participate in compensation management, succession planning, disciplinary actions, employee relations and workforce planning

Resource Management (budgets, tools, processes, project support):

Manages engineering resources for small size and/or less complex group, typically involving one line of business or discipline

Common responsibilities include staffing, recruiting, budgets, tools and/or processes

Resolves resource conflicts and identifies training needs

Administrative responsibilities typically include supervising group operations and budgets may support IT, office administration, and facilities

Ensures policies, procedures, and processes are effectively developed, implemented, and communicated for workgroup

May approve timesheets and expense reports

Management Scope Factors:

Pending nature of role, scope of influence may include a significant-size group

May Influence costs, productivity, or competitiveness

Geographic responsibility may be for 1+ offices or a small region

Typical scope involves less complex business line or technology responsibility and/or less complex discipline responsibility

Supports mitigation of risk related to projects/technologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Drive For Results
• Priority Setting
• Planning
• Delegation
• Directing Others
• Conflict Management
• Building Effective Teams
• Advanced knowledge of engineering design principles and applicable design guides and standards related to assigned engineering discipline

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering from either a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing
• Minimum of 15 years related work experience
• 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.

Certifications

Most positions - depending on the nature of work performed as defined by the division - will typically require incumbents to have professional registration or licensure in their designated home office country, or be in active pursuit* of such registration

Work Environment/Physical Demands

• Hybrid or flexible work options may be offered after the first 90 days of employment based upon manager discretion, job performance and work assignments.

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