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OVERVIEW:
This award winning multi-disciplinary architecture, engineering + planning firm has an extensive portfolio encompassing multi-family residential, student housing, mixed-use and hospitality projects as well as corporate and government projects. The firm’s dynamic, design team structure promotes collaboration and innovation, while investing in the talent and expertise of all professional staff and incorporating the latest technology throughout the organization. They are committed to surpassing their clients’ expectations with design solutions that reflect and respect the unique cultural, social and built environment traditions of communities. Given the firm’s continued growth, they are seeking a Director of Structural Engineering with demonstrated experience and expertise across multi-family, mixed-use and/or commercial projects, to assume a key leadership role in their Minneapolis office.
SUMMARY:
The Director is an entrepreneurial and collaborative leader, highly skilled in the design and leadership of structural engineering for large complex multi-family, mixed-use and/or commercial projects while remaining focused on client engagement. S/he will work closely and collaborate with Project Managers and Directors in the oversight and development of concepts and strategies that respond to program, client and project requirements while striving for design excellence. The firm’s strengths lie in the integration of architecture, engineering and planning, and the Director, as a practice, design, client and office leader, will work closely across disciplines, collaborating in the development of exemplary projects. As a fully integrated practice creating dynamic buildings to live, work and play, the Director of Structural Engineering is integral to the project’s success through their expert engineering guidance and ability to lead and develop structural engineering talent.
With exceptional skills at building long-term relationships, s/he will be involved with business development efforts with architecture, marketing/BD and design colleagues to attract new clients and maintain existing clients regionally and nationally. The Director will oversee the full scope of projects including design management, project delivery and project performance/profitability. Adept with the big picture and the smallest details, the Director will have proven design, management and client leadership experience. S/he will communicate clearly with clients for any required decisions that impact the firm’s design goals, schedule and project delivery. S/he will create a culture of technical excellence that encourages emerging talent to learn and grow in an inclusive and collaborative environment.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Director of Structural Engineering is actively engaged with clients and projects, leading or managing the following:
SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS:
Design is not making beauty; beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. Louis Kahn