Manager - Structural Design
Jordan Sitter Associates
06th April, 2026 Role Overview Hands-on engineering leader to own the full structural design lifecycle for the company's ultra-class rigid-frame haul trucks (250 to 375 ton machines) built for the world's most demanding mining environments. This is not a caretaker role. The mandate is to elevate a tenured team and set a higher bar for engineering rigor, while personally engaging with the technical challenges that make this work genuinely interesting: fatigue life, weld design, and structural weight optimization.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Lead the Structural Design department (4-6 engineers), including performance reviews, coaching, and personnel decisions
- Own full structural system design: superstructure, dump body, front/rear running gear, castings, and weld design
- Drive fatigue life analysis using cyclic load profiles and S-N curves; designing to finite fatigue life, not just static ultimate load
- Develop and review weld joint designs, including full-penetration welds, fillet vs. groove tradeoffs, and toe geometry
- Apply 3D modeling using PTC Creo (preferred) or equivalent platform; strong preference for top-down methodology
- Mentor engineers to understand the physics behind FEA outputs, not just produce results
- Develop business cases and written justifications to unlock resources and support across the organization
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and international counterparts; up to 20% travel
- Contribute to root cause analysis, failure analysis, and field warranty investigations as needed
- Hands-on structural engineering experience with welded fabrications, castings, and/or heavy machined structures; must have designed or co-designed real hardware
- Fatigue life analysis depth: cyclic loading, S-N curves, finite fatigue life design
- Weld design knowledge: full-penetration welds, joint selection, and fatigue impact of geometry decisions
- Free body diagram fluency; can trace force flow independently from software output
- Proficiency in 3D modeling (Creo/Pro-E, SolidWorks, CATIA, or Siemens NX)
- Minimum 2 years directly managing technical staff (reviews, coaching, personnel decisions)
- Heavy equipment structural experience: mining, construction, crane, agriculture, or similar cyclic-loading environment
- Material selection experience with HSLA steel - weldability, tensile strength, and cold-weather properties
- Top-down 3D modeling methodology - must be able to discuss and demonstrate approach
- Sand casting design experience with wall thickness and fatigue geometry considerations
- Ability to write clear business cases and engineering justifications
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