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Structural Engineer (PEng) - Steel
Delta, BC V3M 6N4 CA | Work from home flexibility TELECOMMUTE CA
Job Description
Contact – Dave Banns (dbanns@theheadhunters.ca)
The Headhunters have partnered with a leader in Conventional and Pre-Engineered Steel Buildings, looking to add a Structural Engineer (PEng) to their BC team during an important growth period.
Their laser focus on commitment to quality, efficiency, and customer service drives everything they do. With a collaborative team culture and entrepreneurial mindset, they embrace challenges as opportunities to innovate, adapt, and create lasting value for our clients. If that sounds like your DNA, please read on.
Key responsibilities
We’re looking for an experienced Structural Engineer (P.Eng.) to join our clients’ structural engineering team. This is a hands-on, technically focused role for someone who thrives on solving complex design challenges, reviewing detailed drawings, and ensuring compliance and efficiency across all engineering deliverables. This isn’t your typical engineering leadership role; we’re looking for someone that is a strategic thinker with a practical, hands-on approach, a strong communicator, a skilled problem-solver with sound professional judgment and someone who is organized, proactive, and enthusiastic about working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment…. And most importantly, a team player without an ego.
Areas of responsibility include:
Technical Leadership:
- Perform and review structural analysis and design for steel and pre-engineered building systems (CSA, AISC, NBC standards).
- Prepare and validate design calculations, connection designs, and engineering drawings.
- Review and stamp engineering packages, shop drawings, and fabrication details.
- Ensure designs meet client specifications, structural integrity, and constructability requirements.
- Support value engineering initiatives to optimize designs for efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
- Provide technical guidance across all project phases — design, detailing, fabrication, and erection.
- Deliver quality designs on time and within budget.
- Support project teams with design clarifications, RFIs, and coordination with clients, consultants, and site teams.
- Collaborate with third-party engineering, detailing, and design firms to ensure deliverables meet standards.
- Assist sales and pre-contract teams with proposals, engineering estimates, schedules, and schematic designs.
- Coordinate with manufacturing, procurement, and construction teams for seamless execution.
- Partner with clients, architects, and contractors to resolve design challenges.
- Uphold company engineering standards, templates, and calculation methods.
- Participate in peer reviews to ensure technical quality and consistency.
- Stay current with evolving codes, design methods, and industry best practices.
- Contribute to developing technical standards and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Registered Professional Structural Engineer (P.Eng.) with EGBC
- 7 – 15 years of progressive experience in structural engineering with at least 5 years of heavy industry experience
- Proven track record leading design and engineering projects.
- Strong knowledge of structural systems, materials, and design software (RISA, ETABS, SAP2000, Revit).
- Experience reviewing and approving shop drawings, fabrication details, and erection drawings.
- Hands-on experience collaborating with project management and construction teams.
- Background in structural steel and pre-engineered building systems
- Competitive salary based on experience ($100,000 - $135,000), however if you have more experience, the range will clearly increase
- Full benefits package
- Play an important part during a growth period
- Stability – there is a long pipeline of work
Meet Your Recruiter
Dave Banns
MBA, Principal
Recruiting Specialty: Engineering & Operations
As Principal, Dave builds and maintains relationships with our partners. Drawing on over two decades of global recruitment and business development experience, his market knowledge is an invaluable resource to organizations of all sizes. Dave has ambitious goals to work collaboratively with current and new clients to develop cutting-edge, proactive workforce solutions. He has a proven record of exceeding clients’ expectations and cultivating sustainable and mutually-beneficial partnerships.
Dave is also a specialized and consultative recruiter with a focus in Engineering, Manufacturing, Construction and Operations positions. He has a reputation among his clients for implementing unique search strategies to attract top talent and build cohesive teams. Dave has a realistic understanding of how his clients’ businesses function in today’s world and what they will need to thrive in the future. Moreover, he has a deep network, refined ability to spot technical talent and match it with the most suitable company culture.
A former teacher, Dave knows how best to coach and guide individuals he works with. He takes the time to fully understand their goals, encouraging them to develop and follow a career path that is unique to their skills, talents and aspirations. Working with them as their consultant, he opens doors, acting as a conduit between great candidates and high-calibre career opportunities.
Dave holds an MBA in Global Management and a BBA in Marketing. His commitment to community is evident through his enthusiastic support of Big Brothers of Canada and the Make-A-Wish Foundation, as well as his past service as a Board member for The Vancouver Society of Children’s Centres, contributing to the HR & Governance, Finance and Nominations Committees. He is an avid traveler and sports enthusiast who enjoys playing beer-league hockey, golf and skiing. He also dedicates his time to coaching his son's rep ice hockey, baseball and soccer teams.