Structural Engineering Manager - Cary, NC

EAD Management Services Inc•Cary, NC

About The Position

The Structural Engineering Manager leads the structural engineering team and is accountable for its people, capacity, assignments, technical standards, review coverage, proposal and estimate input, capability development, and discipline quality across the Project Delivery Group. This is a working-manager role with an expected billable contribution generally between 50% and 75%. The position determines who performs discipline work and ensures the assigned team is capable and available and that technical work is sound and properly reviewed. Project Managers retain ownership of overall project delivery. EAD supports engineering, automation, and project delivery in industrial and manufacturing facilities. Work is often multi-discipline, fast-moving, and performed in active or existing facilities, where sound judgment, safety, quality, clear communication, and dependable execution are important. The manager provides structural technical leadership across analysis and calculations, foundations, supports, platforms, mezzanines, building systems, equipment supports, brownfield modifications, field investigation, undocumented conditions, constructability, and code compliance.

Requirements

Active Professional Engineer license; able to personally produce, review, serve in responsible charge, and seal structural work.
Strong industrial structural engineering experience and progressive multi-project leadership.
Demonstrated resource planning, assignment, proposal, technical review, coaching, and client-facing capability.
Strong written and verbal communication, sound judgment, organization, and dependable follow-through.
Ability to work effectively across offices, disciplines, project teams, and client organizations.

Nice To Haves

Experience with industrial or manufacturing facilities and brownfield project environments.
Experience with Unanet AE, Microsoft 365, and project-based reporting or collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

Lead employees and working leads through assignments, priorities, coaching, performance feedback, hiring, onboarding, development, licensure, and succession.
Own the 13-week discipline capacity view and assignment decisions affecting discipline employees; assign qualified people using prioritized, time-phased demand and considering capability, availability, workload, development needs, and project commitments.
Establish minimum discipline execution-planning standards and ensure qualified Project Discipline Leads develop and maintain appropriately scoped engineering execution plans for applicable projects.
Keep discipline scope, deliverables, hours, staffing, schedule, quality reviews, codes and standards, technical risks, mitigation actions, and coordination requirements current.
Lead or approve discipline proposal and estimate inputs, including technical scope, deliverables, hours, staffing, schedule, assumptions, exclusions, interfaces, review requirements, and execution risks.
Develop practical risk-mitigation strategies and escalate material residual risk before EAD makes a commitment.
Own discipline technical standards, checklists, responsible-charge coverage, technical-review practices, competency expectations, and lessons learned; ensure required technical reviews and issue closures occur before release.
Partner with Project Managers, who own overall project scope, schedule, budget, changes, client commitments, Project Execution Plans, Project Execution Checklists, and coordination across disciplines and workstreams.
Maintain visibility into discipline DLU/RevGen, planned-versus-actual effort, upcoming commitments, quality results, available capacity, overload, and capability gaps; act early or escalate when the discipline cannot support a commitment.
Provide discipline-specific technical leadership for structural analysis and calculations; foundations, supports, platforms, mezzanines, wall/floor/roof systems, equipment supports, brownfield modifications, field investigation, undocumented conditions, constructability, and code compliance.