Job Description

Job Category: Engineering
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Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.
Wood currently has several opportunities for Senior Structural Engineers to join our team in our Vancouver, BC office. If you have a successful track record in heavy industry and thrive on challenges in a fast-paced environment, this is the opportunity for you.This opportunity is Hybrid.
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The Role
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced structural engineer with a strong background in heavy industrial projects, including Bio Products, Oil & Gas, and Pulp & Paper facilities. You will play a key technical and leadership role, delivering structural engineering solutions from concept through detailed design, construction support, and commissioning.
The role includes technical leadership, coordination with multi-disciplinary teams, mentoring junior engineers, and direct engagement with clients to ensure project objectives related to safety, quality, schedule, and cost are achieved.
Our Clients and Projects
Designing the future. Transforming the world.
Wood's Projects business delivers safe, reliable, and sustainable engineering solutions to clients across the Bio Products, Oil & Gas, and industrial sectors. Our teams support greenfield and brownfield projects, facility expansions, and modernization programs across Canada, helping clients meet operational, environmental, and energy transition goals.
What we can offer

• Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team, and individual needs
• A culture focused on safety, inclusion, and collaboration
• Competitive salary range CAD $140,000 - $175,000
• Flexible benefits package tailored to support your lifestyle
• Commitment to professional development, mentoring, and career progression
• Opportunities to work on complex, high-value industrial projects across Canada

Responsibilities:

• Lead projects, including management of discipline's budget, schedule, progress and changes on projects
• Attend client and project meetings (Office / Job sites).
• Preparation of manhour estimates and execution plans for proposals
• Supervise, direct and authenticate work of engineers
• Execution of projects to meet client needs and expectations.
• Attend client and project meetings
• Completion of structural design and analysis to applicable codes and standards
• Perform structural steel and concrete design
• Preparation of technical reports and calculation packages as project deliverables.
• Perform checks on other engineers' design.
• Working with designers on the project collaboratively to produce design deliverable.
• Review project documents prior to issue for scope and presentation against project standards and specifications.
• Authenticate structural engineering deliverables.
• Interface with other disciplines, project management to execute work per the Project Plan.
• Interface with workshare team from other Wood global offices
• Work in compliance with all Health and Safety rules and regulations for Wood and its clients.
• Conducting field reviews at project work sites

Qualifications:
What makes you remarkable?
At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. Even if you do not meet every requirement below, we encourage you to apply.

• Must be legally able to work in Canada at the time of application.
• Graduate or Undergraduate Engineering Degree in Engineering
• Must be registered as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with EGBC or APEGA
• Minimum 15 years of relevant EPC experience in structural design
• Broad experience designing structures in Oil & Gas and Pulp & Paper projects
• In-depth knowledge of the National Building Code of Canada (Alberta Edition).
• Strong background and experience in structural steel and reinforced concrete design.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the requirements of CSA S16 and CSA A23.3.
• Proficiency in modeling and analysis using SAP2000, RISA 3D, and STAADPro.
• Experience in design of modification to existing facilities
• Field construction support experience.
• Ability to work efficiently and effectively when managing multiple assignments.
• Strong technical writing skills; experienced in the preparation of correspondence and technical reports.
• Effective verbal communicator, including presentation, facilitation and listening skills.
• Ability to work both independently and in a multi-disciplinary team environment.
• Willingness to travel and accept short-term field assignments.
• Motivated by working with people, through internal collaboration or with external clients.
• Loves to share knowledge, experiences, and expertise with others to assist, mentor and coach less experience members of the team in their development.

About Us:
Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people.
Diversity Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.

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