Senior Structural Designer

Senior Structural Designer

We are Builders FirstSource, America's largest supplier of building materials, value-added components and building services to the professional market. You'll feel proud of the work you do here every day to transform the future of home building and help make the dream of home ownership more achievable. At BFS, we believe building a successful career is not solely defined by a degree. Your experience, skills, and passion are just as important, if not more so. As such, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that welcomes candidates from all backgrounds and experience levels.

At BFS, the Senior Structural Designer independently coordinates the design and completion of layouts of residential roof and floor systems for pricing and manufacturing, while performing simple and complex analyses to meet technical requirements and achieve customer goals and preferences.

What You'll Do:

• Serves as Company's representative to customer and other third parties in the design, purchase, and construction of residential roof and floor systems.
• Independently performs simple and complex analyses while designing residential roof and floor systems and producing layouts.
• Reviews layouts with customers, analyzes relevant information, and uses independent judgment to provide expert advice and recommendations.
• Develops and completes design details from customer concept drawings.
• Selects design materials to be used and produce materials list per customer needs and technical requirements for each job.
• Oversees all construction design documents, construction management, and construction contracts.
• Independently presents, coordinates, sells and follows-up on all new jobs.
• Proactively discusses changes and corrections with engineers, architects and contractors prior to and during construction base.
• Independently develops solutions to challenges presented by customers within budget, schedule and project constraints.
• Designs residential roof and floor systems and produces layouts. Review layouts with customer.
• Independently resolves architectural and design discrepancies.
• Proactively develops and recommends implementation of new or adaptation of existing policies, practices, procedures, and techniques.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree. Applicable work experience may be substituted for education requirement.
• 4+ years drafting experience in a construction or building materials-related industry.

Work Environment / Physical Activity:

• Subject to both typical office environment and outside locations with temperature and weather variations.
• Must be able to lift and carry up to 25 pounds frequently and on occasion up to 80 pounds.

Successful, innovative, and fulfilling careers are built here, and your professional development is a high priority. We invest in your future through the latest training, tools, and technologies. Highly collaborative, we work together to solve problems and find better ways to continually grow our business and careers every day. You'll be empowered to try new things, gain new experiences, and build a career with unlimited horizons. The scale and depth of resources that being the #1 building materials distributor in the nation provides a variety of opportunities for you to explore – all in a friendly, people-first environment. Join us to be more, do more, and build more, together at BFS.

At Builders FirstSource, we offer competitive, affordable benefits designed to make life better for you and the people you love. Our goal is simple — provide great plans that help you and your family to live happier, healthier and more secure lives.

Builders FirstSource is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability.

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