Job Description

Overview

Our client, a growing integrated design, engineering, and construction firm, is seeking talented Engineers to join their team, offering a flexible work schedule with three days in the office and the rest from home.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver high-quality mechanical projects that meet client goals and adhere to the firm’s standards.
  • Understand all project phases including schematic design, design development, construction documents, and construction contract administration.
  • Perform mechanical engineering analysis, design, and system selection for building applications.
  • Ensure conformance of design with applicable building codes and project sustainability goals.
  • Deliver high-quality electrical projects that meet client goals and adhere to the firm’s standards.
  • Perform electrical engineering analysis, design, and system selection for building applications.
  • Perform structural engineering analysis, design, and calculations for vertical building structures.
  • Analyze and design structural steel, concrete, wood, and masonry framing systems for vertical building structures.
  • Perform MEP analysis, design, and system selection for building applications.
  • Perform civil and site engineering analysis for site plans, site layout, utilities, stormwater management, green infrastructure, earthwork, grading, and erosion control utilizing Autodesk Civil 3D for design and documentation.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in engineering.
  • Experience with schools is a plus.

Additional Information

  • Work three days per week out of their Darien, IL office OR their downtown Chicago, IL office, the rest from home.

How this job compares in Chicago, IL

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Chicago, IL currently run a median of $37/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $31–$47/hr across 75 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Chicago, IL

We're tracking 94 other active welding openings in Chicago, IL right now, from 53 different employers. 26 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 331 other active welding openings from 205 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Chicago, or widen the search to Illinois.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Staff on Site (13), S&C Electric Company (10), and Gerber Collision & Glass (10). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Illinois, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Chicago at $37/hr, Elk Grove Village at $36/hr, and Bedford Park at $33/hr. Chicago is among them.

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