Structural Designer

IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILEPosition: Structural Designer (SD)Above Group OverviewWe offer you the opportunity to put your passion and your God given talents and abilities to use. Our goal is to attract and develop skilled, called, and passionate people to impact our devoted customers and our team. We want to attract immensely creative employees with an ability to inspire, motivate, and challenge others.For more information, see www.abovegroupinc.com.Our People StrategyWe believe in a people strategy to be the fundamental driver of our organization.While we can never reach a perfect organizational model, we can certainly strive towards it in our daily efforts and mission. With that vision comes a focus of key initiatives we are working on, listed here, with the indicators of what it should look like as we approach:Shared Direction: A collective understanding of what the organization stands for, where it is going, and how we will get there. Indicators: a clear inspiring vision, well-executed strategies, clear aligned goals.Authentic Values: Deeply held principles guiding all decisions and relationships and reflected in the conduct of everyone at all times. Indicators: high levels of trust and communications, uncompromising integrity and ethics, socially responsible practices.Productive Relationships: Open, collaborative relationships that recognize and honor the commitments that people make to themselves, each other, their work, and the organization. Indicators: respect for all individuals, effective problem solving and decision-making, clear accountability, effective teamwork at all levels.Liberating Processes: Flexible structures, processes, and technologies that allow people to do their best work and to collaborate effectively across boundaries. Indicators: clear organizational design, collective knowledge, the right tools and technologies, the right people for the right jobs.Outcome Learning: Results-focused learning that strengthens individual and organizational capacity to cope with the present and define the future. Indicators: continuous teaching and learning, effective knowledge and skills development, leadership development at all levels.Motivating Metrics: Fair, meaningful performance requirements, measure and rewards that reinforce high performance and manage poor performance. Indicators: clear and energizing performance requirements, relevant work measures, differentiated rewards.Our Vision – What We Want to DoContinuously improving the built environment for the glory of God.Our Mission – Why We ExistDemonstrating the love of Jesus Christ through empowering excellent AEC professionals to provide superior service.Our Values – How We Will Accomplish This MissionOur Core Values are the tools we use and the behaviors we exhibit as Employees of Above Group. They describe how we work together to achieve this special place we’re developing and how they make us uniquely successful.Christian Values - We demonstrate humility, honesty, integrity, respect, kindness, and a sense of social responsibility.Uncompromising Quality – We provide excellent results all the time, every time.Buffalo – We take initiative running toward and owning challenges.Extreme Team – We are accountable to each other to continuously grow and succeed.Structural Designer (SD)The PositionThe Structural Designer for Above Group shall contribute and support structural design efforts for the firm. The SD shall directly contribute to the Firm and its success through drafting and design efforts. This individual shall directly contribute to the Firm and its success through technical experience to effectively produce a quality design and ultimate product to the customer. The SD shall execute drafting and design duties as required to ensure quality is always maintained.The SD is a designer by education and experience:Ability to combine personal judgment with information to implement design criteria.Demonstrates proficiency of structural concepts.Able to prepare specific framing and foundation plans for projects as directed by team.Able to use computer software such as Microsoft Office.Ability to work well in a team environment and as an individual. Communicates well with individuals in the organization.Capable of interpreting information set forth in a Basis of Design, field surveys and code research.Responsible for the delivery of the technical design of project tasks to which they are assigned from design through construction admin.Responsible for Utilization Rate (80%), and QC completion (95%) for assigned projects.Preparation of schematic design and design development drawing sets with direction from the team.Support to senior engineer by working on specific design tasks, markups, and review comments as assigned.Application of design principles to resolve design problems and tasks assigned.Development and implementation of design criteria from concept through detailed design and construction.Proficiency in design drawing software including Revi