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Overview

This engineering position offers a variety of interesting and challenging opportunities in structural engineering, providing an excellent opportunity to advance your career with Sargent & Lundy. You will collaborate with a team on engineering projects for new nuclear facilities and upgrades to nuclear power plants.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with a team of structural engineers.
  • Interface with engineers from other disciplines.
  • Guide the work of less experienced project team members.
  • Prepare and review design calculations.
  • Develop specifications and support designers with drawing development.
  • Perform structural analysis and design of steel frames, connections, concrete members, and foundations.
  • Travel to client and vendor offices for design reviews and to plant site locations for construction coordination.

Requirements

  • BS degree in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in Structural Engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
  • 3+ years of experience in the design and analysis of structures, including AISC steel and ACI concrete designs.
  • Experience with structural analysis software such as STAAD, SAP2000, SAFE, STRUDL, or ANSYS.
  • Familiarity with design codes and standards such as ASCE 7, AISC, and ACI.
  • Good written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • This position is based on a hybrid work schedule requiring in-office work 3 days per week.
  • No sponsorship for work authorization in the U.S. is available for this position.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Phoenix, AZ

Pay in context

At roughly $45/hr, this posting sits about 51% above the $30/hr median for welding jobs in Phoenix, AZ — toward the top of a $24–$39/hr middle band drawn from 75 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 88% 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 Phoenix, AZ

We're tracking 198 other active welding openings in Phoenix, AZ right now, from 114 different employers. 49 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 467 other active welding openings from 221 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Phoenix, or widen the search to Arizona.

Sargent & Lundy currently has 3 other openings live in Arizona, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Arizona at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Sundt Construction (29), Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (19), and EZARC (18). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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