Structural Engineer III

Location: Sheffield, IA Job Summary: To design custom steel grain storage bins, ensuring safety and compliance. This role involves collaborating with sales staff, providing technical advice, inspecting project sites, and overseeing the preparation of detailed engineering drawings. Additionally, the individual will coordinate design to designers and/or drafters for final design and manufacture. Essential Job Requirements: A Master’s degree in Civil or Structural Engineering with ten years of work experience or a Bachelor’s degree with fifteen years of work experience is required. Professional Engineering licensure also required. The ideal candidate should have experience with tower support structures for overhead catwalks, catwalks for agricultural conveying equipment, and support structures for elevated tanks. Knowledge of building codes related to agricultural applications and a basic understanding of agriculture and grain storage are beneficial. Proficiency in Solidworks or other solid modeling CAD software is helpful, and preferred experience with RISA. Preferred Skills: Advanced knowledge of Microsoft O365, Solidworks experience, and Solidworks Enterprise PDM software experience Job Duties: Manages and directs the concepts, design, and execution of projectExtensive knowledge of applicable building codes and design standards (IBC, ASCE 7, AISC) with the ability to reasonably interpretCalculates loads and stresses on structures, investigates the strength of members and beams, and determines whether a structure can function safelyWorks with sales staff to engineer custom steel structures to required specificationsCoordinates design to designer/drafter for final design and manufactureAssists with troubleshooting manufacturing issues and issues with steel structures in real world applications and recommend repair and/or modificationChecks work to ensure accuracy of spelling, drawing format and organization, dimension and tolerance convention, and conformance with Engineering StandardsConduct structure evaluations and forensic investigationKnowledge of bin foundation design as it pertains to issues caused by foundation problemsMentor EIT’s in structural engineeringComfortable with and ability to make critical engineering decisions with minimal oversight Apply Now Download Application *must be eligible Equal Opportunity Employer It is, and will continue to be, the policy of Sukup Manufacturing Co. to practice a program of equal employment designed to assure that all employment decisions and advancement opportunities are made available to all employees and applicants on the basis of individual qualifications and without unlawful regard to race, religion, veteran status, national origin, disability, age or sex. In addition to providing equal employment opportunities, it is also our policy to provide an environment free from unlawful harassment, including sexual harassment. Any alleged violation of this policy will be investigated and disciplinary action will follow as required. Immigration Sponsorship: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. Sukup Manufacturing Co. is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time unless explicitly annotated within the individual job posting.