Practice Lead-Structural Engineering

General Responsibilities:

Join Terracon as a Practice Lead-Structural Engineer and help shape the future of our growing Engineering team within our Building Performance Services.

This role specializes in investigation, remedial design, and consulting support for the rehabilitation of building structures and enclosures focused on steel and concrete infrastructure. This position is based in the San Antonio, Texas area and supports projects throughout Texas.

This position is available in multiple locations, including San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, and Houston, providing flexibility based on your preferred city.

This is an opportunity to take on meaningful responsibility early-ranging from client development to delivering complex, high‑quality projects focused on steel and concrete infrastructure. Our work centers on diagnostics, remedial design, and consulting, giving you exposure to challenging, real‑world engineering problems where your expertise matters. The position includes periodic travel around Texas and, depending on business needs, occasional national travel.

You'll collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary team that includes BEC, architects, owners, and civil, mechanical, and electrical engineers, broadening your technical perspective while making a visible impact. At Terracon, quality, integrity, and doing what's right for our people are core with everything we do. Solving building issues and restoring value for our clients is key to this role.

If you're looking for a career-defining opportunity with room to grow and challenging work alongside a collaborative team within a 100 % employee-owned company that continues to prosper, we'd love to connect. Flexible work schedule, to ensure project timelines are completed.

Essential Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide structural engineering and consulting services, including remedial structural design (primarily for existing buildings), failure investigations, condition assessments, analytical studies, rehabilitation of existing and historic structures, specialty structural design, and preparation of structural shop drawings. Focus is steel and concrete.
• Collaborate closely with diverse clients, including architects and engineers; private and public owners; local and state governments; educational, recreational, and cultural institutions; real estate and development firms; and general contractors and subcontractors.
• Provide design expertise and perform and/or oversee the design and preparation of construction documents for a variety of projects within this office.
• Develop and prepare proposals for professional services, including a detailed scope of services, fee development, and project schedule.
• Prepare professional reports with clear, logical presentation of technical ideas and recommendations.
• Lead multidisciplinary building engineering teams (junior through senior staff) and coordinate personnel, equipment, and technical experts to deliver projects on schedule and within budget.
• Supervise and mentor junior and/or less-experienced staff; cross-train team members on structural services as needed.
• Be actively involved in one or more technical/professional associations.
• Support group and office business development efforts by strengthening existing client relationships and helping develop new clients.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in building science or related building field and 10+ years' experience in facility assessment. Or, in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 14 years' related experience.
• Master's degree preferred.
• A valid driver's license with acceptable violation history may be required.

About Us

Terracon is a 100 percent employee-owned multidiscipline consulting firm comprised of more than 8,000 curious minds focused on solving engineering and technical challenges from more than 200 locations nationwide. Since 1965, Terracon has evolved into a successful multi-discipline firm specializing in environmental, facilities, geotechnical, and materials services. Terracon's growth is due to our talented employee-owners exceeding expectations in client service and growing their careers with new and exciting opportunities in the marketplace. Terracon was recognized as the #1 firm in Asbestos and Lead Abatement.

Terracon's vision of "Together, we are best at people" is demonstrated through our excellent compensation and benefits package. Based on eligibility, role and job status, we offer many programs including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plan, paid time off and holidays, education reimbursement, and various bonus programs.

About the Team

From general practitioners to specialists, our national Facilities professionals know facility systems from curb to rooftop. As a member of our team, you'll join licensed architects and engineers delivering services for new construction and existing facilities including building enclosure consulting and testing, facility asset management, due diligence, ADA and accessibility consulting, facility condition assessments, and more. Be it one parking lot or a 100-building portfolio, we create sustainable options for our clients' buildings, assess and extend service life where applicable, increase performance, and help them maximize the value of their capital expenditures.

EEO Statement Terracon is an EEO employer. We encourage qualified minority, female, veteran and disabled candidates to apply and be considered for open positions. We do not discriminate against any applicant for employment, or any employee because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender, disability, age, or military status.

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