Lead Special Structural Analysis Engineer 1 - Nuclear

Sargent & Lundy

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This is a lead design engineering position offering a variety of interesting and challenging opportunities in structural engineering, providing an excellent opportunity to advance your career. You will guide a team of structural engineers, interface with engineers from other disciplines, and directly with clients. You will have the opportunity to lead and mentor a structural engineering team on engineering projects for new nuclear facilities and upgrades and modifications to nuclear power plants. This position will allow you to directly apply your knowledge of materials, structural analysis, structural steel design, and reinforced concrete design. As a member of an engineering and design team, you will work on a wide range of projects for various clients, preparing, reviewing, and providing guidance for design calculations, developing specifications, and working with designers for drawing development. You will also prepare, review, or guide the structural analysis of safety-related structures under various loading conditions, such as seismic loading and impactive/impulsive loading. There is potential for travel to client and vendor offices for design reviews and to plant site locations for construction coordination and field verification of designs. In this role, you are expected to lead others in utilizing modern tools like automation and AI to improve workflows, reduce rework, and deliver cost-effective designs, and to direct automation and process-improvement work.

Requirements

MSCE with emphasis in Structural Engineering from an ABET-accredited program
PE or SE license
Ten or more years of experience working as a member of a project team in the design and analysis of industrial / heavy commercial or nuclear facility structures
Proficiency with structural analysis software such as SAP2000, STRUDL, SASSI or ANSYS
Proficiency with design codes and standards such as ASCE 4, ASCE 43, ASCE 7, AISC, and ACI
Good written and verbal communication skills
Willing or able to lead others who use modern tools

Nice To Haves

Ph.D. degree
Overseeing engineers who program or script (e.g., Python, MATLAB, advanced Excel) to automate engineering tasks, with review of automated outputs
Additional learning, such as a minor, certificate, or other experience in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, or related fields that enables effective oversight of automation and agentic AI-enabled engineering workflows

Responsibilities

Guide a team of structural engineers
Interface with engineers from other disciplines
Interface directly with clients
Lead and mentor a structural engineering team on engineering projects for new nuclear facilities and upgrades and modifications to nuclear power plants
Directly apply knowledge of materials, structural analysis, structural steel design, and reinforced concrete design
Prepare, review, and provide guidance for design calculations
Develop specifications
Work with designers for drawing development
Prepare, review, or guide the structural analysis of safety-related structures under various loading conditions, such seismic loading, impactive/impulsive loading
Travel to client and vendor offices for design reviews and to plant site locations for construction coordination and field verification of designs (potential)
Lead others in taking engineering problems from issue to solution by setting expectations for using data and modern tools such as automation and AI to improve workflows, reduce rework, and deliver cost-effective designs
Direct automation and process-improvement work, for example, how teams automate calculations, summarize technical documents, or generate design documentation
Guide when and how AI or agentic AI tools are used while ensuring results are checked