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Zak's Building Group is hiring a Structural Engineer to work with the design team of our construction group. Applicants must be a registered professional engineer with APEGS, have structural design experience, and general construction knowledge.
Zak's Building Group is a diverse company with the following divisions:
Home Hardware Building Centre, Agricultural Building, Commercial Building, and Homes and Cottages. Zak's offers competitive wages, benefits plan, RRSP plan, and excellent co-workers.
Desired Skills:
- Structural design knowledge (Part 4 NBCC)
- Building code knowledge (Parts 3 and 9 NBCC)
- Energy code knowledge (9.36 Small Buildings & NECB)
- Drafting capability (AutoCAD and/or Revit)
- Excellent work ethic
- Able to take direction
- Excellent customer service
- Work well with others and independently
- Polite and respectful to customers and co-workers
- Holds a high standard of quality on all work
- Good organization skills
Job Responsibilities:
- Design-build projects including residential, light commercial, and industrial
- Produce structural and architectural drawings sets with our in-house drafting team
- Manage engineering consultants (i.e. mechanical, electrical, energy)
- NBCC code review for residential and commercial projects
- Site inspections and field reports
- Document control (i.e. specifications, shop drawings, O&M Manuals)
- Permitting construction projects
- Field engineering of foundations, columns, beams, load-bearing walls, etc.
- Drafting of architectural and engineering design drawings
- Engineering consulting for contractor supply customers
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Work Setting
- Construction company