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Overview

The Senior Structural Designer 2 position at Sargent & Lundy offers a hybrid work schedule, allowing for both in-office and remote work. This role involves leading structural design efforts for nuclear power projects, utilizing advanced modeling software and collaborating with multi-disciplined engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Develop structural steel design and reinforced concrete design layout drawings in a 3-D model.
  • Utilize Hexagon’s SmartPlant S3D modeling software and SPF database to generate structural design deliverables.
  • Create structural steel framing drawings, concrete wall and foundation drawings, and detailing consistent with engineering requirements.
  • Act as the structural design team lead in coordinating detailed design phases for an integrated structural design model.
  • Resolve clashes and discrepancies in the 3D model and report status.
  • Coordinate and provide guidance to other designers and project team members for timely design completion.
  • Independently plan and execute design of structural deliverables.
  • Mentor less experienced drafters and designers.

Requirements

  • 10 or more years of detailed design experience in structural plant design drawings.
  • Experience with SmartPlant S3D modeling, including integration with SPF and clash detection resolution.
  • Proficiency with design software tools for executing 3D plant layout models.
  • Experience reviewing structural layout drawings involving steel frames, connections, concrete members, and foundations.
  • Ability to interface with engineering and design teams of other disciplines in the plant design process.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • This position allows for a hybrid work schedule.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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Pay in context

At roughly $52/hr, this posting sits about 45% above the $36/hr median for welding jobs in Chicago, IL — toward the top of a $28–$45/hr middle band drawn from 77 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 86% 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.

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