Senior Structural Engineer

DOTec Professional Corporation is seeking a full-time Senior Structural Engineer, PE to provide day-to-day technical leadership for structural project delivery in St. Charles, Missouri. The position combines hands-on structural engineering with technical oversight, staff development, and close coordination with project management and executive leadership.

Role Overview

This onsite role focuses on structural analysis and design leadership, in-depth review of deliverables for technical and code compliance, resolution of field and construction-phase issues, and ongoing improvement of structural standards and quality-control processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead structural analysis and design, including criteria, system selection, calculations, details, specifications, and technical reports.
• Direct engineers, EITs, designers, and drafters by establishing assumptions, expectations, review points, and technical priorities.
• Review deliverables for accuracy, completeness, code compliance, constructability, and multidisciplinary coordination before issuance.
• Align technical work with project scope, schedule, fee, staffing, and client commitments; communicate technical risks and effort changes early.
• Resolve field conditions, RFIs, submittal issues, jurisdictional comments, and construction-phase problems.
• Maintain and improve structural standards, calculation tools, typical details, checklists, quality-control procedures, and code application.
• Mentor developing professionals and support proposals, technical scoping, interviews, and client presentations.
• When assigned and legally authorized, assume responsible charge only for work personally directed and supervised, and seal documents in accordance with applicable law.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in civil or structural engineering from an ABET-accredited or demonstrably equivalent program.
• Active PE license in good standing in a U.S. jurisdiction; Missouri licensure is strongly preferred, or willingness to obtain it by comity within an agreed onboarding period.
• Eight (8) or more years of progressively responsible structural engineering experience, including building design and construction-document delivery.
• Strong command of applicable codes and standards, including IBC, ASCE 7, ACI 318, AISC 360, TMS 402/602, and NDS.
• Experience with steel, concrete, masonry, wood, foundations, and appropriate structural analysis and design software.
• Strong technical judgment, communication, documentation, mentoring, ethics, multicultural-team skills, regular on-site attendance, and occasional business travel.

Technologies and Codes

• IBC
• ASCE 7
• ACI 318
• AISC 360
• TMS 402/602
• NDS

Work Style and Leadership Expectations

DOTec values skilled, confident, and accountable professionals who take ownership, follow through, address difficult issues directly, and help colleagues succeed. This role provides direct access to senior leadership and a meaningful opportunity to influence how the firm grows.

Work Location and Schedule

• Location: Saint Charles, MO (onsite at DOTec’s St. Charles office).
• Employment type: Full-time.
• Schedule: 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Central Time, Monday through Friday.
• On-site presence is essential due to continuous technical supervision, mentoring, controlled-document review, and multidisciplinary coordination.
• No routine remote or hybrid arrangement is available.
• Reasonable accommodations may be considered as required by applicable law.

Compensation

Salary range: USD 90,000 - 140,000 per year.

Benefits

• Company-paid employee medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage (subject to plan eligibility and terms).
• Paid vacation: two weeks during the first five years of service, three weeks from five through fewer than ten years of service, and four weeks beginning at ten years of service, administered under Company policy.
• Six (6) company-paid holidays: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day.
• Professional licensure and credential-development support, including reasonable reimbursement for approved expenses in accordance with Company policy.
• Dental insurance.
• Health insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Paid time off.
• Parental leave.
• Professional development assistance.
• Vision insurance.

Work Authorization

DOTec does not offer employment-based immigration sponsorship for this position, now or in the future. This includes temporary nonimmigrant sponsorship and employment-based permanent-residence sponsorship, including F-1 CPT or OPT, H-1B, H-2A or H-2B, L-1, and TN classifications.

Equal Employment Opportunity

DOTec Professional Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. The company does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. Reasonable accommodations are available during hiring, and employment requires verification of identity and employment authorization as required by federal law. This posting is not exhaustive and does not create a contract of employment.