Senior Structural Engineer

Morrison Hershfield is now Stantec.

Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that works to support innovation. The Stantec community unites more than 28,000 employees working in over 400 locations across 6 continents.

Here at Morrison Hershfield, now Stantec, we are committed to providing flexible work arrangements, to assist employees in fulfilling their multiple responsibilities at work, at home and in the community. Flexible work arrangements provide additional options for work schedules and locations. As we focus on project delivery, clients and staff, we have several working options available for working at Morrison Hershfield, now Stantec.

Morrison Hershfield’s Horizontal Infrastructure (HI) Business Unit has developed some of the Canadian market’s most notable infrastructure projects and we are highly committed to delivering outstanding quality while meeting our clients’ needs. Our team of Planners, Engineers and Contract Administrators deliver infrastructure solutions that drive economic growth and social prosperity.

Our group offers a positive customer experience across all regions of Canada, from project inception, design development and through to construction completion. Our national HI group is comprised of engineers, technicians and support personnel with their diverse backgrounds in design and construction, committed to delivering excellent technical work and customer service to our clients. This national team has earned an exceptional reputation through its successful delivery of multidisciplinary infrastructure projects in Canada.

Responsibilities:

• Act as project manager, structural lead, and designer for engineering assignments

• Responsible for transportation structural inspection assignments and be supervising engineer on biennial (OSIM) inspection assignments.

• Attend site visits related to pre-design information gathering, construction and post-construction review.

• Lead and conduct the inspection of existing bridges, culverts, and other transportation structures in accordance with the Ontario Structure Inspection Manual (OSIM), Ontario Health and Safety Act (OHSA), and other applicable standards.

• Coordinate work with clients and other disciplines including highway/road, electrical, drainage and environmental planning.

• Analyze, evaluate appropriate design solutions and design of transportation structures including bridges, culverts, retaining walls and foundations.

• Provide direction to project team members and support staff through verbal and written instructions.

• Direct CAD team for drawing preparation and review deliverables prior to submission to client

• Prepare and review technical reports, tender documents, and cost estimates.

• Provide recommendations and costing on bridge, culvert and retaining walls, required maintenance, repair and rehabilitation.

• Provide tender evaluations and/or construction engineering services.

• Conduct business development activities to secure new projects by client liaison and proposal preparation

• Attend and participate in team progress meetings.

• Available to work flexible hours, days, nights, and weekends. Staff will be required to be away from home for periods of time.

• Complete daily health and safety documentation.

• Conduct regular reviews of transportation structure projects to ensure budget, schedule, risk, and cost to complete estimates are appropriate.

• Work within assigned projects and schedules

Qualifications:

• BASc or B.Eng. In civil/structural engineering with strong interest and experience in bridge engineering

• P. Eng. status and 10+ years leading biennial inspection assignments and leading large transportation structures projects.

• RAQS eligible within bridge engineering for biennial inspections.

• Attended the MTO 2021 Inspectors workshop.

• Experience in the role of supervising engineer on OSIM inspection assignments

• Experience in fatigue inspections

• Experience in proposal and report writing.

• Experience in asset management

• Experience in project management

• Successful experience of analyzing, evaluating, rehabilitating, and designing bridges and culverts

• Interest in working both in the office and the field environment.

• Ability to perform outdoor physical duties while doing bridge inspection work.

• Valid Ontario Driver’s license and access to a vehicle

• Strong computer skills, including experience with bridge inspection and asset management software, SAP2000, CSiBridge and SFRAME

• Excellent written and verbal communication

• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills

• Able to work in a team environment and excel in both bridge and multi-disciplined projects.

• Demonstrated interest in business development activates and preparation of proposals.

• Proven ability to supervise, direct and mentor staff.

• Organized and detail oriented.

• Ability to direct a team and mentor technical development of others.

• Works well with minimal direction

Job Type:

Regular

Job Profile: For internal use

Transportation Structural Engineering III

Attention Staffing & Recruitment Agencies: Morrison Hershfield, now Stantec, will not pay fees for recruitment activities related to the hiring of a candidate unless a written service agreement has been established between a duly authorized representative of our Corporate Human Resources department and the recruitment/placement firm. In addition, in order to qualify for recruitment fees, all candidate resumes must be submitted to Morrison Hershfield, now Stantec, through our Corporate Human Resources department. Resumes and profiles sent to our managers without the express agreement of our Corporate Human Resources department will not be eligible for a fee.