# Senior Structural Designer

**Company**: Southern Company
**Location**: Birmingham, AL
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Structural Designer to join our team in Birmingham, Alabama.

As a Senior Structural Designer, you will be responsible for providing structural design services for Southern Company Generation.

**Job Responsibilities**

- Produce 3D models and design drawings for structural steel and/or reinforced concrete

- Prepare layouts and conceptual designs

- Communicate and coordinate work with Supervisor, project team, clients, and contractors

- Perform site walk-downs for field verification and to address constructability

- Review vendor shop fabrication drawings

- Prepare steel field fabrication drawings

- Prepare material takeoffs and assist with cost estimates

- Locate design drawings and other information for the project team

- Some non-extended travel to construction sites and client locations is required

**Education & Job Experience**

- Significant experience in structural design/detailing of heavy industrial/power generation facilities is required – 10+ years' experience is strongly preferred

- Experience creating engineering and fabrication drawings

- High school graduate or equivalent is required

- Additional technical training or experience is preferred

**Knowledge, Skills & Abilities**

- AutoCAD proficient

- Extensive 3D modeling experience is required

- Steel/concrete detailing experience is required for field fabrication drawings

- Proficiency using Autodesk Advance Steel and Navisworks structural software is strongly preferred

- Experience using laser scans to produce 3D models and create design drawings is strongly preferred

- Self-starter

- Good verbal communication and technical writing skills

- Must be able to produce clear, concise drawings

- Good organisational skills with the ability to balance multiple projects simultaneously

- Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities

- Able to work effectively both as part of a team and independently

**Travel Requirements**

- This position requires minimal travel primarily to sites within the Southern Company Generation Fleet – up to 10% per year.

**Benefits**

- Competitive Pay

- Excellent benefits package which includes:

- Medical and dental coverage

- Defined Pension/Cash Balance Benefit Plan

- Performance-sharing plan

- 401(k) plan with a generous company match

- Bonus opportunities

- Tuition Reimbursement

## Skills

### Required
- AutoCAD
- 3D modelling
- structural design
- steel/concrete detailing

### Nice to have
- Autodesk Advance Steel
- Navisworks
- laser scanning

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