Engineering Lead - Civil/Structural

We're looking for a hands-on, highly skilled civil/structural engineering leader to own the civil, structural, and architectural scope for our titanium, zirconium, and hafnium materials production facilities. This is a critical technical leadership role where you'll bridge process requirements, site constraints, engineering partners, and real-world industrial construction. You will be the primary owner for CSA design decisions across front-end engineering, detailed design, construction support, commissioning, and turnover. You'll work at the intersection of heavy industrial plant design, advanced materials production, and capital project execution, making sure the physical facility is buildable, maintainable, code-compliant, and ready to support a first-of-its-kind operation.

Responsibilities

• Own civil, structural, and architectural engineering scope for pilot, demonstration, and commercial-scale materials production facilities
• Develop and review CSA basis of design, site layouts, grading and drainage concepts, geotechnical scopes, foundation designs, structural steel packages, building envelopes, egress/life-safety requirements, and architectural packages
• Translate process equipment, utility, logistics, maintenance, and operations requirements into buildable civil and structural design requirements
• Lead reviews of EPC, architect-engineer, consultant, contractor, and vendor deliverables for technical quality, constructability, maintainability, schedule risk, and cost impact
• Own technical interfaces between CSA scope and process, mechanical, electrical, controls, utilities, EHS, permitting, construction, and operations teams
• Drive site investigation and site development workstreams, including topographic survey, geotechnical investigation, civil utility routing, stormwater, roads, laydown, access, and expansion planning
• Review and approve specifications, drawings, calculations, submittals, RFIs, change requests, inspection plans, and construction work packages related to CSA scope
• Support permitting, code compliance, seismic design, hazardous-area interfaces, life safety, environmental requirements, and authority-having-jurisdiction reviews
• Lead constructability, operability, maintainability, and value-engineering reviews that reduce construction complexity without compromising safety or long-term plant performance
• Provide field engineering support during construction, commissioning, punch-list resolution, turnover, and early operations
• Build the internal CSA engineering function, including design standards, preferred vendors, drawing review practices, and project execution playbooks

Qualifications

• 8+ years of civil, structural, architectural, or CSA engineering experience in industrial facilities, manufacturing plants, chemical plants, mining, metals, energy, semiconductors, oil & gas, data centers, or comparable capital-intensive environments
• B.S. or higher degree in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Architectural Engineering, or a related discipline
• Proven success owning CSA scope from front-end engineering through detailed design, construction, commissioning, or plant startup
• Strong working knowledge of reinforced concrete, structural steel, heavy equipment foundations, pipe racks, platforms, industrial buildings, equipment pads, embedded plates, anchor bolts, drainage, grading, and underground utilities
• Experience reviewing engineering deliverables, calculations, drawings, specifications, BOQs, submittals, RFIs, field changes, and construction packages
• Familiarity with relevant codes and standards such as IBC, ASCE 7, ACI, AISC, ASTM, OSHA, life-safety codes, seismic design requirements, and local permitting processes
• Ability to work fluently across process engineering, equipment engineering, electrical, controls/automation, construction, operations, maintenance, EHS, permitting, and external vendors
• Strong practical judgment about constructability, field sequencing, vendor capabilities, modularization, maintainability, inspection requirements, and commissioning risk
• Experience with STAAD.Pro, ETABS, SAFE, SAP2000, Tekla, Revit, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Navisworks, Bluebeam, or comparable engineering and construction tools is a plus
• Professional Engineer (P.E.) license, experience as an owner's engineer, or experience leading CSA scope on a major capital project is a strong plus

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $170K – $260K

Significant equity compensation aligned with public benchmarks for senior early team members

Your actual compensation will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: location, job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.

You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, short & long-term disability insurance, paid parental leave, and various other discounts and perks. We have a flexible paid time-off (PTO) policy.