If you enjoy solving complex challenges in a collaborative environment that celebrates each person's ideas, experience, and creativity, this might be the opportunity for you. Flad is a national architectural firm with ten offices across the country, specializing in science, healthcare, academic, and workplace spaces. Our in-house structural engineering team provides support to architectural teams to enable project vision and design objectives with unique and integrated structural solutions. This position is responsible for structural design and coordination from inception to completion, including document preparation, structural system selection, and direct collaboration with clients and consultants. Flad is a team of creative, intelligent, energetic people who help our clients tackle the issues that change people’s lives.

• This position will work on projects that vary in size and complexity.
• Design structural systems including cast-in-place, precast and post-tensioned concrete, structural steel, masonry, and wood for a variety of commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings.
• Perform structural system selection studies and select appropriate systems.
• Participate in the coordination of architectural, specifications, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing disciplines.
• Provide guidance to Structural Technicians and Designers by assigning work, answering questions, and checking work for accuracy. Work with Technicians to provide appropriate information and details to develop documents.
• Participate in construction site visits and perform general CA phase duties including shop drawing review, submittals, change orders, addendums and RFI’s.
• Assist in coordination of staff activities to assure the project budget, schedule and quality goals are achieved. Schedule design reviews with the Senior Structural Engineer or Director of Structural Engineering as appropriate to ensure quality standards. Help maintain structural project schedules and budgets, recognizing additional services and alerting appropriate senior structural staff.

Experience:

• Minimum of three years of recent and relevant experience in structural design of buildings required. Experience with science, healthcare, academic, and workplace spaces preferred.

Software:

• Proficiency with structural analysis software (e.g., RAM, RISA, etc.) and Revit required. Knowledge of Microsoft Office required. 

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in structural engineering or civil engineering required. Master's degree preferred.
• PE or SE registration required.
• Sustainability accreditation preferred. 

Flad offers a wide range of benefits, including:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Generous paid time off and paid holidays
• Financial health and wellness benefits - retirement savings plan; fiduciary advisor; identity theft plan; Section 125 flexible benefits; income protection – life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability; Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Continuing education and career development – internal programs; funds set aside for external programs, licensure and sustainability support, annual professional registration and organization reimbursement
• Hybrid work environment

Flad Architects is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Flad will provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply for a position, please contact Human Resources at 608-238-2661 or email us at humanresources@flad.com.