Graduate Structural Engineer

Job Location: Us

Graduate Structural Engineer positions available in 2012

Start your career at Arup, a top-listed engineering firm in the Building Design & Construction Magazine’s “Best AEC Firms to Work For” . . . FROM THE START, a newly-graduated engineer receives:

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Substantial Engineering Work Assignments

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A Training Plan for Accelerated Professional Growth

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Work Opportunities That Acknowledge Ability, Not Seat-Time

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Full Membership in a Global Network of Experts

As part of our global engineering and design firm, you’ll have the chance to engage in a fulfilling career and work with some of the most highly respected engineers and specialists in the world.

You’ll also get the opportunity to work on exciting and significant projects and deliver quality work that has a positive and lasting influence on the community and the environment.

Perhaps that’s why 90% of staff know that their own work has a positive impact on the success of the firm, why 70% of our projects are repeat business (often with world-class architects) and why Arup consistently remains in the Engineering News Record Rankings of the “Top 25 International Design Firms to Work For”.

We look for talented individuals who exhibit exceptional technical skill and also have personal characteristics that will help to propagate the long term Arup values of:

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Quality of Work

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Holistic Approach

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Humane Organization

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Straight and Honorable Dealings

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Social Usefulness

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Reasonable Prosperity of Members

As a Graduate Structural Engineer, you will learn and apply the following:

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Design of individual structural members on a project

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Structural analysis using structural software

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Attending meetings and learning from listening, asking questions and discussion.

You will learn and apply the following skills:

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Structural software skills (training course, on-the-job)

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Structural analysis modeling (on-the-job)

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Learning about the Arup Structural Skills Network (introduction course, on-the-job)

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Learning to navigate through codes and/or guidelines.

Required:

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Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering or Architectural Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering or Architectural Engineering with emphasis on Structures

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Coursework in structural analysis, advanced steel design and advanced reinforced concrete design

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Professional demeanor

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Skills in planning and organizing

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Ability to communicate thoughts and technical ideas in an accessible way

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Attitude of taking initiative, enthusiasm, and eagerness to learn.

Preferred:

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3.5 GPA or higher

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Coursework in structural dynamics, earthquake engineering

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Internship experience with a design firm

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FE/ EIT certification

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Structural software skills, AutoCAD skills, Revit skills, 3D modeling skills (Rhino, SketchUp, etc.)

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Evidence of past internship or extracurricular activity in the field

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Proven ability to perform in a deadline environment

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Past history of technical presentations and technical writing

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Evidence of personal investment in academic or extracurricular field.

To understand why 93% of our staff say they are proud to work for Arup, one only needs to look at the talents and qualities that we seek out and then intentionally grow. Through a two-year skill-building period of on-the-job training in engineering analysis, supervised design of parts of real projects, responsibility for production of selected drawings and report content, in-house courses in multi-disciplinary design, and project site visits, the graduate engineer quickly becomes an essential part of the delivery team.

Job ID: 740838