Walker Structural Engineering, PC, is seeking a full-time structural drafter to join our team. We are a full-service structural consulting firm in Bend, Oregon, and have been serving our community for 20 years. The person in this position will help us maintain our excellent reputation – which has resulted in a business largely based on repeat clients – and will work within our core values of Collaboration, Creativity, and Commitment. Our goal is to work within these values to consistently exceed our clients’ expectations.
This in-office position is open immediately. Ideally, you will have some overlap with our current drafter, who is retiring after more than a decade of stellar service to our firm.
Walker Structural Engineering offers competitive salary and benefits, including full employee coverage for select health, vision, and dental insurance plans; potential for twice-yearly bonuses; overtime pay at your hourly rate for hours worked over 40 hours/week; group activities including the option to attend twice-weekly workout classes, paid for by the firm; 401k contributions; profit-sharing; flexible work policy; and more. We have a welcoming, relaxed, positive, work hard/play hard culture that prides itself on its open-door policy. We strive for transparency and honesty in our approach, and appreciate candid, respectful conversations and problem solving.
Below we outline our ideal candidate. However, if you feel like you would be a good match for our firm, we strongly encourage you to reach out even if you don’t meet all the listed qualifications. For the right candidate, we are happy to provide additional training to get you to these skills.
The Position:
This position creates structural drawings from conception to final design on a variety of commercial, education, and residential projects. The starting salary range is $60,000-$70,000 per year depending on your experience.
Basic Responsibilities:
- Coordinate with project engineers;
- Develop structural drawings;
- Integrate design changes into model and plans;
- Notify Principal in charge of design conflicts;
- Coordination with architects and design team;
- Maintain quality control standards for company drawings;
- Be actively involved in project coordination;
- Organize project files;
- Meet or exceed project deadlines;
- Work with BIM manager to keep our standards and processes up to date.
Skills:
- Three+ years as either a Structural or Architectural drafter
- Proficient with Revit
- AutoCAD experience is a plus
- Tekla experience is a plus
- Efficiency with plan drawings that meet our firm standards as well as client, governmental, and budget requirements
- Detail orientated
- Strong communication skills
- Positive attitude
- Ability to work as a team and independently
- Capable of handling multiple projects at once
Goals and expectations for your first year:
- You have impressed your colleagues as well as our clients with your resourcefulness in managing tasks with precision and efficiency;
- Your modeling knowledge and expertise have made you a key player on Walker Structural projects;
- You are a valued team member who is well-liked by your co-workers and clients;
- You are respected for your intrinsic knowledge of current and future Revit products;
- You enjoy living in Bend.
Select Projects
Walker Structural projects include many prominent buildings in Central and Eastern Oregon. We also have engineers licensed to work in Oregon, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Hawaii, Montana, and Washington.
- Deschutes Brewery Fermentation Tanks – 8,000-sf two-story addition to Bend’s largest brewery with steel frame construction at the lobby and locker room areas and a large elevated concrete frame/slab to support ten 400-kip fermentation tank
- New Bend High School – 260,000-sf two story structure with steel/CMU framed classrooms and administrative areas along with steel open web joist/CMU framed gymnasium and performing arts center.
- Noble Residence – 3,100-sf two-story single-family residence with exposed concrete walls and multiple roof extensions for a modern flare.
- Prineville Oregon Hospital – 70,000-sf two story steel frame essential facility with 12 inpatient rooms and operating facilities to replace existing aging structure
Contact Information
If the position, firm and community align with your goals, please send a cover letter and resume to [email protected]. No phone calls please. Visit our website at walkerse.com for more project pictures and company information.