Orbital Engineering - Texas City, TX
posted 16 days ago
About the position
Working with our business partners to create, improve and sustain industry and infrastructure. Orbital Engineering has been driven by this core purpose for more than 50 years - energizing Orbital team members and helping our clients solve challenging and complex problems with innovative engineering, inspection, and construction solutions. Orbital team members are guided by the fundamental principles of building trusted relationships, personal accountability, innovation, and excellence in everything we do. Orbital is looking for others to join our team to continue activating our purpose and embrace our values. Orbital is currently seeking an experienced Structural Designer to assist with single and multi-discipline projects in the Houston Region. The position requires demonstrated design ability and competency with AutoCAD and other CAD tools preferably in a consulting environment, for heavy industrial engineering projects in the oil and gas, chemical, power, and metals industries. This will be a hybrid position, but it is preference for this individual to live local to the South Houston Region.
Responsibilities
- Ability to work in the field within heavy industrial facilities
- Ability to walk one to two miles in industrial facilities
- Ability to work in elevated work conditions
- Ability to perform field surveying, take measurements, reference from known or temporary benchmarks, and create detailed field notes and sketches of existing site layout, concrete and steel structures
- Perform structural inspections of existing facility steel structures and fireproofing according to Orbital Engineering guidelines
- Prepare conceptual drawings, sketches and material take-offs of concrete and steel
- Assist engineering by creating detailed design drawings of various layouts for industrial facilities including: foundation design, grading plans, underground piping/drainage, structural steel piperack and support design and details
- Assist the Civil/Structural Engineering department by reviewing vendor shop/fabrication drawings
- Update design drawings from redline mark-ups
- Structural steel engineering plans, sections and details for pipe racks, pipe supports, platforms and miscellaneous support structures
- Field engineering and structural inspections as they relate to work scope
Requirements
- AutoCAD 2D
- AutoCAD Plant 3D
- 3D Modeling of structures
- Self-starter, works independently with little direction
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Understanding and aptitude in the use of current computer software including CAD systems, Microsoft Office products and design software
Nice-to-haves
- Microstation
- SmartPlant 3D
- AutoCAD Civil 3D
- CadWorx
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- prescription drug
- 401(k)
- supplemental insurance
