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Overview

This senior engineering position at Sargent & Lundy offers a variety of opportunities in structural engineering, focusing on projects for new nuclear facilities and upgrades to nuclear power plants. The role involves collaboration with a team of engineers and guiding less experienced team members.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with a structural engineering team on engineering projects for new nuclear facilities and upgrades to nuclear power plants.
  • Prepare and review design calculations and develop specifications.
  • Support designers with drawing development.
  • Perform structural analysis and design of steel frames, connections, concrete members, equipment and piping supports, and foundations.
  • Conduct structural analyses including loading conditions such as wind and seismic.
  • Travel to client and vendor offices for design reviews and to plant site locations for construction coordination and field verification of designs.

Requirements

  • BSCE with emphasis in Structural Engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
  • 5 or more years of experience working as a member of a project team in the design and analysis of structures.
  • Proficiency with structural analysis software such as STAAD, SAP2000, SAFE, STRUDL, or ANSYS.
  • Familiarity with design codes and standards such as IBC, ASCE 7, AISC, and ACI.
  • Proficiency with MS Office applications.
  • Good written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • This position is based on a hybrid work schedule and will require in-office work 3 days per week at the Sargent & Lundy office in Peachtree Corners, GA.
  • Sargent & Lundy does not sponsor employees for work authorization in the U.S. for this position.

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $52/hr, this posting sits about 72% above the $30/hr median for welding jobs in Atlanta, GA — toward the top of a $23–$37/hr middle band drawn from 29 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.

The local market in Atlanta, GA

We're tracking 77 other active welding openings in Atlanta, GA right now, from 55 different employers. 22 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 316 other active welding openings from 186 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 2 other openings 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 Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (10), Classic Collision (9), and Gerber Collision & Glass (9). 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, Marietta at $30/hr, and Atlanta at $30/hr. Atlanta is among them.

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