Structural Engineering Manager - Omaha, NE

EAD Management Services Inc•Omaha, NE

About The Position

EAD supports engineering, automation, and project delivery in industrial and manufacturing facilities. Work is often multi-discipline and fast-moving, and may take place in active or existing facilities where sound judgment, safety, quality, clear communication, and dependable execution are important. The Manager, Structural Engineering owns structural engineering 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 of 50–75%. Project Managers own overall project delivery; this manager owns discipline staffing and assignments, team capability and availability, and the technical soundness and review of discipline work. The position reports to the VP, Project Delivery and is enterprise-wide. The role provides discipline-specific technical leadership for structural analysis and calculations; foundations, supports, platforms, mezzanines, wall, floor, and roof systems; equipment supports; brownfield modifications; field investigations; undocumented conditions; constructability; and code compliance. Office and computer work are regular. Project, client-site, plant, and field conditions may include stairs, ladders, tight spaces, moving equipment, noise, dust, chemicals, and required personal protective equipment. Travel is required as project and leadership needs require. Occasional evening, weekend, holiday, startup, or shutdown work may be required based on the role and project.

Requirements

Active Professional Engineer license required; ability 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.
Ability to travel as project and leadership needs require.
Occasional evening, weekend, holiday, startup, or shutdown work may be required based on the role and project.

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, using prioritized, time-phased demand to assign qualified people based on capability, availability, workload, development needs, and project commitments.
Establish the minimum discipline execution-planning standard and ensure qualified Project Discipline Leads develop and maintain right-sized engineering execution plans for applicable projects.
Verify that discipline scope, deliverables, hours, staffing, schedule, quality reviews, codes and standards, technical risks, mitigation actions, and coordination requirements remain 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 practical 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.