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Overview

This position offers the opportunity to utilize and expand your academic background in Structural Engineering while working on the design of new nuclear facilities and modifications. Sargent & Lundy is a leader in nuclear engineering, design, and licensing, committed to safety, innovation, and sustainability.

Responsibilities

  • Team up with engineers and designers from various disciplines for nuclear facility design.
  • Prepare design calculations and develop specifications.
  • Support designers with drawing development.
  • Perform structural analysis and design of steel frames, connections, concrete members, and foundations.
  • Conduct structural analyses for loading conditions such as wind and seismic.

Requirements

  • BS in Civil Engineering with emphasis in Structural Engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
  • 1 or more years of applicable experience, or an MSCE from an ABET-accredited program.
  • Knowledge of materials, structural analysis, structural steel design, and reinforced concrete design.
  • Proficiency with MS Office applications.
  • Good verbal and written communication skills.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Hybrid work schedule requiring in-office work 3 days per week at the Peachtree Corners, GA office.
  • Potential travel to client and vendor offices for design reviews and construction coordination.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Atlanta, GA

Pay in context

At roughly $41/hr, this posting sits about 31% above the $31/hr median for welding jobs in Atlanta, GA — toward the top of a $26–$50/hr middle band drawn from 43 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 67% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Atlanta, GA

We're tracking 119 other active welding openings in Atlanta, GA right now, from 87 different employers. 72 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 444 other active welding openings from 282 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Atlanta, or widen the search to Georgia.

Sargent & Lundy currently has 1 other opening live in Georgia, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Georgia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Marathon (10), Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC (7), and Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (7). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Georgia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Forest Park at $39/hr, Atlanta at $31/hr, and Conyers at $31/hr. Atlanta is among them.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Structural Engineer 2 - Nuclear figures were last recalculated when this page was built.