Structural Engineering Manager - Omaha, NE

EAD Management Services•Omaha, NE

About The Position

The Structural Engineering Manager leads EAD’s structural engineering team and is accountable for discipline staffing, capacity, assignments, technical standards, reviews, proposal and estimate input, capability development, and quality across the Project Delivery Group. EAD supports engineering, automation, and project delivery in industrial and manufacturing facilities, often in fast-moving, multidisciplinary projects at active or existing facilities. The role requires sound judgment, safety, quality, clear communication, and dependable execution. This is a working-manager role, with an expected billable contribution generally between 50% and 75%. Project Managers own overall project delivery; the Structural Engineering Manager owns discipline work assignments, team capability and availability, and technical soundness and review. The role reports to the VP, Project Delivery and works across offices, disciplines, project teams, and client organizations.

Requirements

Active Professional Engineer license required; 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.
Demonstrate high character, including integrity, accuracy, discretion, sound judgment, and early escalation of safety, quality, financial, contractual, and people concerns.
Take responsibility, follow through, close loops, and create clarity when priorities or conditions change.
Remain practical, respectful, steady, and solution-oriented through pressure, ambiguity, and change.
Give people clear expectations, useful context, timely feedback, and the support and authority needed to succeed.

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.
Use prioritized, time-phased demand from Project Managers and the Director, Project Management to assign qualified people based on capability, availability, workload, development needs, and project commitments.
Establish minimum discipline execution-planning standards and ensure qualified Project Discipline Leads develop and maintain appropriately 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 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.