Designer 5

Overview:

You don't have to be an employee long before you understand the SSOE difference. It goes back to our history of reinventing ourselves for new markets, serious rates of growth year after year, and being ahead of the curve in technology. Those are the achievements of a company that rewards talent and effort in ways that mean the most to the individual.

When you work at SSOE, you work with the best and you're a part of something bigger than yourself. And providing the best possible workplace for our employees gives us a competitive advantage-helping us attract and retain top talent and drive better business results.

Responsibilities:

• Interprets, organizes, executes and coordinates medium assignments with the overall responsibility for budget adherence, quality control and inter-discipline coordination.
• Makes decisions independently on design problems, practices and methods, but may receive input on unusual or complex problems from the department manager or project engineer/architect for proposed design solutions.
• Produces finished plans and specifications and final acceptance or rejection of major items involving materials, equipment, manufacturer's quality and field construction results.
• Completes work on major engineering/architectural projects or total design work on projects of smaller or moderate scope.
• Serves as a job captain on single discipline projects and may serve as a job captain on multi-discipline projects.
• Prepares or reviews construction budgets based on experience and scope of project.
• Writes scope of work for design based on preliminary review and meetings with the customer
• May be requested to perform project management functions.
• May assign and review work of project design team. Checks progress of work and alerts project manager to changes of scope or additional services.
• May devise new approaches and solutions to problems encountered and communicate them to the team.
• May represent the firm in meetings and conferences to resolve important questions and to plan and coordinate a project.
• May prepare total design and construction cost estimates.
• Travel required.
• Valid driver's license required. May be waived for international assignments.

Qualifications:

• Associate degree or certification of completion of other post secondary training in engineering or architectural fields preferred.
• Minimum fifteen (15) years experience with SSOE as a Designer or nineteen (19) years experience with former employer(s).
• Salary Range: $95,000-$100,000/year based on experience.
• Benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, 401K retirement savings plan (with company matching), opportunities for professional development and training, generous PTO & paid holidays