Hybrid Senior Rockwork Engineer – Project Hire

at The Walt Disney Company

• Job title: Senior Rockwork Engineer – Project Hire
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $115,500 - $154,800 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Glendale, United States

About the role

• Senior Rockwork Engineer managing complex rockwork design and engineering at Walt Disney Imagineering. Leading technical coordination and quality assurance for themed attractions.

Responsibilities

• Manage the design and engineering of complex rockwork structures
• Manage technical coordination of rockwork design documents, models, specifications, and basis of design with AR, ST, MEP, Civil, Landscape, Show, Ride, Creative disciplines, and Rockwork Contractor, in consideration of programmatic requirements (Operational Stakeholders)
• Lead the technical coordination of rockwork design and construction including facilitating meetings and maintaining an IRL (issues resolution log) or similar document
• Organize and develop project design criteria, engineering work plans, rockwork schedules, meetings, and work plans for projects of varying complexity
• Facilitate quality assurance and control, both of design documentation as well as field construction
• Direct project team members on coordination and integration activities related to the technical scope of work; this also includes any 3rd party architecture and engineering consultants
• Participate in regularly scheduled project meetings with project team, consultants and contractors
• Provide project teams with rockwork design and construction details, rockwork lessons learned, and rockwork standards information to inform rockwork specifications
• Monitor work progress and ensure that technical quality, interdisciplinary coordination and production requirements are met
• Answer construction bid period questions and respond to and resolve field issues and questions
• Provide technical direction to in-house engineers and designers, and to outside consultants in the production of construction contract documents
• May lead a small team of rockwork engineers and designers in the production of construction documents for multiple attractions of medium complexity through all phases of design

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited engineering school with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil/Structural Engineering
• Professional Engineer license in Civil Engineering
• Working knowledge of structural engineering including current technologies and codes, with concentration in the areas of steel and concrete structures
• Working knowledge of the structural engineering discipline, including industry practices, construction methods and materials, codes, current technology and the preparation and use of contract documents in all phases of design and construction
• Knowledge of the use of 3D CAD and analytical software for structural engineering design
• 6 or more years of work experience in structural and/or rockwork engineering
• 2 or more years managing a small team of structural or rockwork engineers and designers in the production of contract documents for construction
• Construction phase experience including the submittal/shop drawing review process and on-site field inspections

Benefits

• Health and savings benefits
• Educational opportunities
• Special extras that only Disney can provide