
Senior Structural Engineer
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Job overview
Woolpert is hiring a Senior Structural Engineer to lead design and delivery for complex building projects, particularly data centers, industrial facilities, and advanced manufacturing. The role involves structural design, interdisciplinary coordination, technical review, and guidance for less experienced engineers. Candidates need a civil or structural engineering degree, an active PE license, and at least 10 years of structural engineering experience. This is a remote U.S. opportunity; visa sponsorship is unavailable.
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At Woolpert, you’ll do work that matters.
As a leading global architecture, engineering, and geospatial firm, we help clients solve complex challenges that shape communities, strengthen critical infrastructure, advance technology, and improve the world around us. Here, you’ll collaborate across disciplines, tackle meaningful projects, and build a career defined by growth, opportunity, and impact.
Position Overview
Woolpert is hiring for a Senior Structural Engineer with more than 10 years of experience to support the design and delivery of complex building projects, with a focus on data centers, industrial facilities, and advanced manufacturing work. This person should be comfortable leading structural design, coordinating with other disciplines, reviewing technical work, and helping guide less experienced engineers. The role requires hands-on experience with steel, reinforced concrete, foundations, equipment supports, and facilities with significant utility and coordination requirements. Remote U.S. opportunity for the right candidate.
We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must already possess work authorization in the country the job is located.
What You Will Do:
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Lead structural design efforts for data center, industrial, and advanced manufacturing projects.
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Perform structural analysis and design for steel, reinforced concrete, and foundation systems.
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Work closely with architectural, civil, MEP, process, and vendor teams to resolve design and coordination items.
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Review and help prepare structural calculations, specifications, drawings, and construction documents.
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Support QA/QC reviews and assist during construction with submittals, RFIs, field questions, and related items.
What You Will Bring:
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Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related field.
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Active Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
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Minimum of 10 years of structural engineering experience.
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Project experience should include data centers, industrial facilities, manufacturing plants, or similar technically complex projects.
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Experience using structural analysis programs, design tools, and BIM coordination workflows.
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Strong working knowledge of IBC, ASCE 7, ACI 318, and AISC standards
Preferred
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Structural Engineer (SE) license and/or Master’s degree preferred.
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Experience with hyperscale data centers, seismic design, or design-build projects is helpful.
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Mass timber design experience is a plus.
Benefits You Will Love
Certified as a Great Place to Work, Woolpert is one of the fastest-growing architecture, engineering, and geospatial companies in the world. With over 75 offices and countless projects around the globe, you’ll work on meaningful assignments that improve quality of life around the world. In addition to offering competitive pay, we provide employees with a robust set of unique benefits, including:
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Freedom to Work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate).
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Principal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.
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Flexible paid time off/vacation: Take time off when it makes sense for you and your team.
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Career development: Explore a wide range of learning and growth opportunities within and across industries.
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Health, life, vision, and dental insurance: Cover all your medical bases.
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Paid sick time, retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, pet insurance, identity protection, technology stipend, employee assistance program, and more!
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Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Pay Range $139,200—$174,000 USD
Find out more about what Woolpert has to offer here: http://woolpert.com/about-us/
Woolpert is an equal-opportunity employer. Woolpert is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. You may view more about EEO on our website: Equal-Employment-Opportunity-The-Law.pdf and EEO is the Law Poster Supplement.
Applicants who require an accommodation throughout the application and interview process should request this in advance by contacting your Recruiter
To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of Woolpert or any of our subsidiaries about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at Woolpert via email, the internet, or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of Woolpert, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by Woolpert's Talent Acquisition Team for this requisition and a valid agreement is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of Woolpert's applicant process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,314 open Structural Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$139–174K/yr
- US median$105–160K/yr2,123 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $157K, is 19% above the US median midpoint ($131K) — in the middle half of Structural Engineer salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 3,314 open Structural Engineer jobs across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- CDM Smith410 open
- Jacobs292 open
- Sargent & Lundy215 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience; Structural Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (2,868 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 2,362 of the 3,314 open Structural Engineer jobs (71%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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