Structural Engineering Manager - Cary, NC

EAD Management Services•Cary, NC

About The Position

The Structural Engineering Manager builds and leads a capable, accountable structural engineering team that delivers technically sound, practical work within scope, schedule, budget, and quality requirements. EAD supports engineering, automation, and project delivery in industrial and manufacturing facilities, often in multi-discipline, fast-moving environments and active or existing facilities where sound judgment, safety, quality, clear communication, and dependable execution matter. This working manager owns structural engineering people, capacity, assignments, technical standards, review coverage, proposal and estimate input, capability development, and discipline quality across the Project Delivery Group. The expected billable contribution is generally 50–75%. Project Managers own overall project delivery; the Structural Engineering Manager owns discipline staffing and assignments, team capability and availability, and the technical soundness and review of discipline work. The role reports to the VP, Project Delivery.

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.
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 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 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.