Associate Design Engineer

Onsite role in Bellville, TX focused on engineering and design for prestressed concrete poles. As an individual contributor, you will own structural analysis and design, support customers, and collaborate across sales and operations while ensuring solutions meet specifications, reliability needs, and manufacturability.

What you’ll be able to contribute

• Analyze and design products using the Finite Element Method and other structural design software while balancing public safety and minimum cost to support competitiveness and profitability
• Interpret customer specifications and needs alongside market and sales requirements
• Apply knowledge of fabrication processes and quality assurance requirements and methods used by Valmont
• Review engineering drawings, evaluate as-built products, and communicate engineering data to customers and internal teams
• Itemize and explain cost-related quotation requirements, including weights and design documentation needs
• Recommend updates to design criteria, analysis methods, drafting procedures, and standard design processes
• Recommend appropriate tests to confirm theoretical designs and coordinate testing activities
• Provide design direction and technical support to associate product engineers and product designers
• Oversee design modifications to align with manufacturing capability changes, support cost reduction, and address reliability and warranty issues
• Support resolution of field and manufacturing problems and help improve existing products
• Improve personal technical competence and participate in new design concepts using the latest technology
• Review and provide inputs to the product development procedure to drive continuous improvement of processes
• Deliver technical design inputs and direction for design reviews and provide technical support to other departments to meet customer needs

How the role operates day to day

The Design Engineer is accountable for meeting milestone dates for assigned projects and participates in technical design review meetings by providing technical design inputs and direction as needed. This role functions as a project team associate, working with partners to develop the activities required to meet product requirements.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering
• Proficiency with MS Office applications: PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Project
• Working knowledge of 3D Computer-Aided Design Software
• Travel up to 10% of the time, which may include international travel

Preferred qualifications (highly qualified candidates)

• Master’s Degree in Civil or Structural Engineering
• Professional Engineering (PE) License
• Knowledge of Finite Element Analysis
• Work experience in Prestressed Concrete design
• Experience with FEA setup and virtual testing for structural elements

Tools and technologies you’ll use

• Finite Element Method
• MS Office: PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Project
• 3D Computer-Aided Design Software

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, prescription drugs, dental and vision)
• 401k retirement plan with company match
• Paid time off
• Employer paid life insurance
• Employer paid short-term and long-term disability, including maternity leave
• Work Life Support
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year
• Voluntary programs including tobacco cessation, Type 2 diabetes reversal, one-on-one health coaching, mortgage services, and more