Our client, a pioneering structural engineering firm with global reach, is seeking a Bridge Structural Engineer for their Vancouver or Abbotsford offices. This is a permanent, full-time, hybrid position, paying $100-140k, depending on experience, plus a competitive benefits and vacation package.
As a Bridge Engineer, you will work alongside the Chief Engineer and engineer-build teams on the engineering, detailing, and delivery of footbridges across North America. You will contribute to advancing bridge engineering methods, help develop bridge-specific best practices and workflows, and play an active role in making these bridges efficient, constructible, and elegant.
This role is ideal for a structural engineer who is technically rigorous, values buildability, is passionate about timber, hybrid and advanced structural systems, and wants to work on highly unique projects that push boundaries while staying grounded in first-principles engineering.
What you'll do
- Execute structural analysis, design, and detailing for pedestrian bridge projects
- Support development of bridge engineering standards, and design tools
- Assist BD and estimating efforts with early-stage engineering concepts and feasibility studies in different forms and materials.
- Coordinate with project management, drafting, fabrication, and construction teams to ensure clarity and seamless delivery
- Support R&D initiatives to advance bridge systems, connections, and performance
- Mentor junior team members as skills and experience grow
About You
- 3–7+ years experience in bridge structural engineering, having seen at least several new mid-span bridges through design and construction.
- Have (or are progressing toward) PEng in Canada and/or PE licensure in US jurisdictions
- Strong grasp of structural engineering first principles as well as modelling.
- Significant knowledge and experience with CSA S6 and / or AASHTO or other leading bridge codes
- Curious, collaborative, self-directed and excited to grow into a technical specialty area
- Passionate about understanding materials, craft, optimization, and elegant structures
Please email your resume to Chelsey Reimer at creimer@recruitmentbydesign.com for consideration; we thank all applicants however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
