Senior Engineer

Company Description

Alpine is looking for a Senior Engineer to join our team! This role will be hybrid based out of Earth City, MO. Alpine is a leading provider of building component software, equipment, and the industry’s best service to truss manufacturers.  Partnering with our customers, we help to improve their businesses and make them more productive.  We are also a leader in delivering software solutions to homebuilders to increase productivity and profitability.  Alpine is a division of ITW, a F200 global diversified manufacturer with $14B in revenue.

ITW offers its employees a path for advancement, a competitive salary, and a comprehensive benefits package designed to help employees care for themselves, their families, and their futures.

Job Description

Position Summary:

Provide customers with truss designs that are both economically feasible and structurally sound using design aids and experienced engineering judgment. As a licensed Professional Engineer, this position is responsible for the application of comprehensive engineering judgment in the completion of highly technical truss engineering designs under minimal supervision of Chief Engineer. Devises new approaches to problems encountered. Responsible to develop, coach and mentor junior engineers. Provide support and technical input for Alpine’s engineering software development.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create complex engineering drawings for both truss component and overall truss systems. Perform highly complex design repairs and corrections, after careful re-evaluation of the entire structural system, as needed, while meeting deadlines for turn-around time of design.
   
• Utilize information taken from documents, verbal instructions, or from the framing layout plans submitted by the customer and apply engineering principles to daily design work with specific proficiency in statics and strength of materials. Reviews, corrects, and completes all customer-generated designs, according to design specifications and appropriate engineering principles. Correctly applies general engineering notes as required.
   
• Provides technical consultation services to customers for innovative design solutions to resolve problems and answer questions such as design improvements, calculation of special loads, assist with plan takeoffs to determine best structural and most economical wood or steel truss system, as needed.
   
• Perform field inspections and on-site investigations by evaluating and analyzing the structure to accurately assess repair requests, determine possible reasons for truss failure, or other structural concerns related to the truss. Discuss field situation with appropriate sales representative.
   
• Perform all duties of a registered Professional Engineer including sealing engineering documents.
   
• Assist with training of entry level engineers and designer/drafters to ensure consistency and accuracy within Alpine’s design process.
   
• Prepare and orally present technical information to Alpine’s engineering management, co-workers and customers at the company’s engineering seminars.
   
• Provide high quality customer service to all internal and external customers.
   
• Provide engineering expertise and engineering improvements to the software development team.

Qualifications

• BS in Civil Engineering or related discipline where statics and strengths of material are core requirements, or a combination of specialized academic training and experience which equates with a B.S. degree.  Minimum of 5 years related engineering experience.  P.E. Certification required.
   
• 3 years’ experience with drafting techniques and presentation of truss designs.  Knowledgeable of truss terms and technical engineering terms and their use.
   
• Experience with design policies, applicable sections of TPI, NDS, LGSEA, AISI, ASCE-7 building codes and standard loading formulas.
   
• Able to read and interpret roof layouts and blueprints, creating complex truss takeoffs from these and determining structurally sound and cost-effective truss configurations.  Proficiency in plan takeoffs and determination of the best structural solutions and most economical systems.
   
• 5 years’ experience with plating methods, light gauge steel connection methods, general engineering notes and their application, and design manuals and span tables.
   
• Ability to apply engineering principles to daily design work with specific proficiency in statics and strength of materials.
   
• Fully knowledgeable of design policies and applicable design standards and building codes.
   
• Proficient in MS Office software.
   
• Good communication and documentation skills with the ability to work ind