Sr. Structural Engineer, Construction

Job Description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Structural Engineerservesas GMs owner-side engineering subject matter expert for major commercial industrial manufacturing and workplace capital projects. The role provides technical leadership from front-end planning through design procurement construction commissioning occupancy and facility operations when structural matters arise.

The Senior Structural Engineerestablishesstructural requirements and review strategies interprets applicable codes and GM standards evaluates designs and technical risks and supports project teams across multiple delivery models. The role helps teams make safe constructible cost-effective resilient and sustainable decisions while coordinating with project leaders planners architects and engineers contractors operations safety procurement and other stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership and Governance

• Serve as the GM structural subject matter expert for ICC planning design construction and facility operations providing technical leadership recommendations expectations and decision support for major capital projects.
• Provide independent owner-side technical challenge to proposed designs deviations substitutions recommendations and execution approaches to confirm technical basis safety code compliance constructability durability risk and business alignment.
• Triage structural support requests and establish risk-based review plans deliverable expectations hold points reviewer responsibilities and decision records based on safety risk project impact urgency and business need.
• Review and interpret structural calculations drawings specifications models studies construction documents and applicable codes to identify gaps assumptions quality concerns constructability issues and required decisions.

Project Planning and Design Support

• Engage early in planning studies preliminary engineering project initiation and kickoff to identify structural scope risks constraints interfaces code considerations constructability issues and budget or schedule implications.
• Support project leaders and planners with structural studies conceptual alternatives class-level estimates schedules business cases VDP activities and Appropriation Requests.
• Lead or support concept reviews and buy-offs covering design intent structural systems load criteria load paths foundations framing existing-building modifications equipment interfaces and other critical structural matters.
• Support value analysis value engineering cost-benefit analysis design-to-budget decisions and scope alternatives by evaluating structural implications lifecycle considerations risk resiliency flexibility and constructability.

Standards Specifications and Technical Documentation

• Prepare edit interpret and maintain technically rigorous Statements of Requirements and Requests for Proposals including structural scope performance criteria deliverables safety expectations testing and inspection requirements and applicable commercial requirements.
• Develop maintain and communicate structural design requirements performance criteria deliverable expectations technical assumptions discipline checklists specifications standard details design guides templates and governance documents.
• Support stewardship of the General Motors Technical Documents Library and promote consistent application of approved structural standards across projects and sites.
• Translate project history benchmarking field experience recurring technical issues industry practices emerging technologies materials and delivery methods into improvements to standards scope development design reviews procurement requirements and construction execution.

Construction and Existing-Facility Support

• Provide risk-based construction-phase structural support for major issues failures deviations substitutions failed tests or inspections field orders bulletins design change requests technical clarifications and other matters requiring structural judgment.
• Support pre-installation meetings site visits testing and inspection planning critical submittal reviews commissioning start-up and buyoff activities; coordinate structural interfaces with process and equipment teams field engineering commissioning safety environmental permitting operations and other stakeholders.
• Provide structural technical input for operating-facility issues including load information modifications damage condition assessments and recommended next steps; plan and support field investigations and targeted testing to evaluate existing conditions and reduce uncertainty.
• Evaluate repair replacement monitoring and continued-use alternatives based on safety risk durability lifecycle cost constructability operational impact and future maintenance.

Collaboration Safety and Capability Building

• Collaborate with engineering and functional-discipline SMEs project leadership planners operations contractors procurement safety partners and other stakeholders to resolve interfaces and competing priorities.
• Communicate structural issues risks assumptions alternatives recommendations and decision impacts clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences including senior leadership and external partners.
• Support safety partners and project teams with structural loading considerations anchorage conditions fall-hazard risk assessments and appropriate fall-protection-system application in accordance with applicable GM OSHA jurisdiction-specific and industry requirements.
• Promote effective use of BIM/VDC workflows document management technical decision records lessons-learned tracking and other approved information systems; develop reusable guidance examples decision aids checklists and lessons learned.
• Mentor Project Managers Design Managers planners project team members stakeholders end users and less-experienced engineers on structural requirements risk management technical reviews and effective project support.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in civil engineering structural engineering architectural engineering or a related field.
• Minimum of seven years of progressive experience in structural engineering owner-side capital project delivery architecture/engineering construction engineering or a closely related technical field supporting major commercial industrial manufacturing or comparable complex capital projects.
• Active Professional Engineer (P.E.) license or ability to obtain an applicable license within 12 months of appointment.
• Demonstrated technical depth in structural systems building-code application load paths foundations framing existing-building modifications constructability construction delivery design review and risk-based technical decision-making.
• Experience reviewing structural drawings specifications calculations models construction documents and applicable building codes and standards to identify gaps assumptions risks quality concerns constructability issues and required decisions.
• Experience supporting front-end planning structural design development construction-phase technical support existing-facility evaluation facility modifications or asset-sustainment activities.
• Ability to develop interpret maintain and improve technical standards specifications Statements of Requirements Requests for Proposals templates checklists and governance documents.
• Experience coordinating with architects engineers contractors Project Managers Design Managers planners safety partners operations teams procurement and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong analytical organizational written verbal and presentation skills with the ability to communicate technical issues risks alternatives recommendations and decision impacts clearly.
• Ability to work independently exercise sound judgment influence cross-functional teams and make effective decisions with incomplete information.
• Demonstrated commitment to safety quality sustainability regulatory compliance and General Motors policies and procedures.
• Strong computer skills including proficiency with common office productivity tools document control submittal and review tracking technical decision records structural design BIM/VDC construction-management or design-review applications.
• Willingness and ability to travel within North America up to approximately 25% as required; passport required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in structural engineering civil engineering architectural engineering construction management business or a related field.
• Experience supporting automotive manufacturing logistics research data-center pre-engineered utility-support or other industrial facilities.
• Experience with existing-building assessments root-cause analysis foundations structural framing equipment and process loads structural reinforcing specialty foundations facility modifications and structural repair or replacement strategies.
• Practical knowledge of geotechnical considerations affecting structural design including subsurface conditions bearing capacity settlement lateral earth pressures groundwater earthwork foundations and interpretation of geotechnical recommendations.
• Experience supporting front-end planning structural studies VDP activities Appropriation Requests and complex capital delivery strategies including design-build design-bid-build integrated project delivery construction management or comparable delivery methods.
• Experience coordinating third-party testing inspections commissioning requirements pre-installation meetings technical submittals field engineering construction issue resolution BIM/VDC execution model coordination and structured technical records.
• Experience applying value engineering lifecycle cost analysis resilience durability low-carbon materials adaptive reuse or other sustainable structural practices.
• Multi-jurisdictional licensure registration reciprocity or experience supporting work across multiple states provinces or authorities having jurisdiction.
• Spanish-language proficiency sufficient to communicate with project teams contractors plant personnel and stakeholders in Spanish-speaking operations.

Location: Hybrid. This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the - Global HQ Warren MI three times per week at minimum or other frequency dictated by the business

Relocation: This role is NOT eligible for relocation benefits.

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