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Director, Principal Structural Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States · Director · Contract
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About the role
- ICON is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an innovative, inclusive, diverse and discrimination-free work environment.
- Employment with ICON is based on merit, competence, and qualifications.
- Consistent with the obligations of these laws, ICON will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
Responsibilities
- Own ICON's structural engineering function - its standards, tools, methods, and delivery quality across the project portfolio.
- Build, lead, and develop the structural engineering team
- own hiring, performance, and career growth.
- Set and steward structural design standards, details, and review processes
- drive their adoption across design-build teams.
- Own the structural engineering budget and resourcing
- Serve as Engineer of Record across ICON's design-build project portfolio, taking full structural responsibility from design through construction completion.
- Lead structural calculations and documentation for complete building and wall systems, coordinating across ICON's architecture, materials science, print path, and construction teams.
- Evaluate ICON's structural building systems for compliance with applicable building codes, standards, and performance criteria - including systems with no direct code precedent.
- Build, lead, and develop the structural engineering team; own hiring, performance, and career growth.
Requirements
- 12+ years of structural engineering experience, with meaningful exposure to concrete structural systems.
- ability to obtain Texas PE licensure within 6-8 weeks of hire.
- Degree in Structural or Civil Engineering (or closely related discipline).
- Demonstrated experience across multiple structural system types - concrete, wood-framed, light-gauge steel, and structural steel.
- Proficiency with structural analysis software and computational design tools.
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD, FEA software (Abaqus or equivalent), Navisworks, and Microsoft Office.
- Working knowledge of test methods and standards required for code compliance of structural systems.
- Experience with computational design and parametric structural modeling
- familiarity with Trimble Tekla, Autodesk Forge, or CATIA.
Skills
- Advanced degree in Structural or Civil Engineering.
- Background in forensic structural investigation and failure analysis.
- Familiarity with sustainability metrics in structural material selection - embodied carbon, life cycle assessment, material efficiency.
- Experience with novel or non-standard construction methods where engineering judgment had to extend beyond established code pathways.
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