Senior Structural Engineer
Job Description
Technip Energies is hiring a Senior Structural Engineer in Houston, TX for an onsite role. In this position, you will drive the technical development and execution of structural engineering deliverables covering steel structures and foundation systems, working closely with multidisciplinary teams and external vendors to meet project requirements.
The scope includes design support for pipe racks, process structures, building framing, equipment support structures, modules, miscellaneous supports, and related foundations, with ongoing communication to ensure quality, contractual compliance, and schedule alignment across assigned structural work.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and support structural engineering calculations, technical specifications, requisitions, calculation notes, stress reports, and other deliverables for steel structures and foundations.
- Perform and coordinate design activities for pipe racks, process structures, structural framing for buildings, equipment support structures, modules, miscellaneous supports, and foundation systems.
- Ensure engineering deliverables are prepared with timeliness and quality in coordination with other disciplines and project requirements.
- Ensure external parties, suppliers, and vendors meet contractual technical specifications and project requirements.
- Maintain technical communication with vendors and follow up on assigned orders and requisitions.
- Identify and propose technically sound alternatives that support cost, schedule, and energy-saving objectives while maintaining project requirements.
- Provide engineering support during construction and assist in resolving field-related structural and foundation issues.
- Provide technical guidance to junior engineers and specialist engineers, and supervise more junior specialists when assigned.
- Maintain autonomy and accountability for assigned structural scope across one or several projects.
- Report engineering and requisitioning progress to the Lead Discipline Engineer.
- For small requisitions or standard equipment packages, coordinate technical, contractual, expediting, and inspection activities with support from project and procurement functions as needed.
- Maintain overall responsibility for engineering, contractual, and quality-control surveillance for assigned steel and foundation works.
- Ensure assigned work supports project quality and HSE objectives, and adhere to project priorities for technical robustness, budget, and schedule.
- Coordinate structural design interfaces with other engineering disciplines, procurement, planning, and construction.
- Ensure engineering deliverables align with applicable project requirements and technical standards.
What You Bring
- Engineering degree.
- Five (5) to twelve (12) years of experience in the design and execution of projects.
- Construction-site experience.
- Professional Engineering registration in Texas and/or Louisiana, or the ability to obtain applicable registration within four (4) months of hire (highly preferred).
- Fluency in professional English.
- Strong familiarity with structural engineering and experience across the technical aspects of the discipline.
- Experience with steel and foundation design for pipe racks, process structures, buildings, equipment support structures, modules, and miscellaneous supports.
- Proficiency with structural engineering software including Foundation 3D, Mat3D, Shaft3D, DS Anchor, STAAD.Pro, Dyna6, IDEA StatiCa, and RAM Connections.
- Ability to prepare and review calculations, specifications, requisitions, stress reports, and engineering deliverables.
- Ability to coordinate effectively with vendors, suppliers, procurement, planning, construction, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- U.S. citizenship required; no current or future employment sponsorship will be provided for this position.
Technical Tools
- Foundation 3D
- Mat3D
- Shaft3D
- DS Anchor
- STAAD.Pro
- Dyna6
- IDEA StatiCa
- RAM Connections