Structural Designer
LPALPA is seeking a passionate Structural Designer to join our integrated team of architects, engineers, interior designers, landscape architects and master planners. As a member of our structural engineering team, you will work on a broad range of projects from office, education and recreation buildings to complex laboratories, health care facilities, and performing arts centers. Our award-winning projects aim to have a positive and enduring environmental, economic and social impact.
You will join a high-performing, fast paced, multi-disciplinary design team, and you will impact projects at each stage of design and across LPA’s nine market sectors. We offer numerous education and mentoring opportunities including site tours, software training, tech talks, study groups for licensure exams and monthly LPA-U courses centered around innovative and sustainable design practices. Join a firm where engineers voices are heard, creative design ideas are encouraged, and your work is highly regarded.
What you will do:
Assist Project Engineers and Project Managers in the comprehensive structural design of a large variety of building types and structural systems
Learn to master 21st century seismic design, including performance based design and resilience based design for both new construction and building retrofit
Work on research for next generation design and analysis methods related to projects
Actively participate in the construction administration phase at projects
Receive mentor-ship and training from Senior Designers and Project Leaders, including a focus on preparation for PE and SE licensure
What we will do:
Provide mentorship from Designers, Project Engineers, Project Leaders and Directors
Participate in a 2 day workshop with other interns and new graduates to meet with leadership, tour project sites, and learn from other disciplines
Provide opportunities and career growth – your success is our success
In-house management and leadership training opportunities
Provide study grants for exploration – Catapult, LPA Foundation
Requirements:
Enthusiastic commitment to the multidisciplinary design process and team environment
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Good knowledge of Revit, RAM, RISA and ETABs is preferred
Curious and open minded to learn and assume increased responsibilities
Committed to building a long-term professional career
LPA is an integrated design firm with offices in California and Texas. We specialize in creating innovative, sustainable environments that work better, do more with less and improve people’s lives. We provide a vibrant and rewarding work environment—one that values and fosters creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, community engagement and ongoing career development and growth. LPA is also committed to diversity, wellness and work-life balance. LPA offers competitive salaries and generous benefits, including health and dental insurance, retirement and financial, wellness and other work/life plans.
NOTICE TO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES AND RECRUITERS:
Please note that LPA does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed contract, LPA will not agree to pay any recruiter fee. In the situation an agency or recruiter submits a candidate or resume without a previously signed agreement and/or without LPA’s request, LPA explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of LPA.