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Structural Engineer
Thornton Tomasetti
Philadelphia, USA
Full-time
Mid
Onsite
Discovered 3 weeks ago
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Your Role
- As a Structural Engineer in our Protective Design & Security practice, you will support risk-based engineering and physical security design that strengthens the safety, resilience, and security of buildings and infrastructure. You will apply threat-informed engineering to structural hardening, blast effects, and progressive collapse, helping connect protective measures with architecture, site design, electronic security, and operations across buildings, campuses, and mixed-use environments. With support from your team, you will work in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment while developing technical, analytical, and project coordination skills.
- What You'll Do
- Support protective design concepts and design studies involving blast effects, progressive collapse, structural hardening, and risk-informed design.
- Assist with analysis, modeling, and calculation tasks as well as the integration of structural and physical security measures into project designs.
- Help prepare diagrams, calculations, technical narratives, presentations, and design documentation that communicate protection measures clearly.
- Coordinate with architects, engineers, planners, and security specialists in a multidisciplinary team environment.
- Participate in on-site assessments, field surveys, and construction-phase activities.
- Build familiarity with TT’s culture, services, and collaborative working style while growing your technical and professional skills.
- What You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in structural or civil engineering, or a closely related field; master’s degree preferred.
- Interest in protective design, security, resilience, and hazard-resistant engineering.
- Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Familiarity with design, visualization, documentation and computational tools such as Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino/Grasshopper, Adobe Creative Suite, Bluebeam, SAP2000, ETABS, or similar platforms is preferred.
- Ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance.
Benefits
- Depending on your employment status, benefits may include:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, Disability and other voluntary benefits
- Flexible Spending Accounts for Medical & Childcare
- Paid Time Off, Family Leave for New Parents, Volunteer Time
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Commuter Transit (where available)
- 401k retirement savings with Company matching on employee contributions and/or qualified student loan repayments
- Fitness Reimbursement
- And other various wellness, diversity/inclusion and employee resource programs and initiatives
- Thornton Tomasetti is proud to be an equal employment workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Thornton Tomasetti are considered without regards to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in structural or civil engineering, or a closely related field; master’s degree preferred.
- Interest in protective design, security, resilience, and hazard-resistant engineering.
- Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Familiarity with design, visualization, documentation and computational tools such as Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino/Grasshopper, Adobe Creative Suite, Bluebeam, SAP2000, ETABS, or similar platforms is preferred.
- Ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance.
About Thornton Tomasetti
Architecture & Engineering Services2677 employeesFounded 1949
Independent global engineering consulting firm designing, investigating and analyzing structures, materials and systems for clients worldwide.
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