Civil Engineer

• Serve as GM’s owner-side structural engineering subject matter expert for major commercial, industrial, manufacturing, and workplace capital projects
• Provide technical leadership from front-end planning through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, occupancy, and facility operations
• Establish structural requirements and review strategies; interpret applicable codes and GM standards
• Evaluate designs, technical risks, structural calculations, drawings, specifications, models, studies, and construction documents
• Triage structural support requests and establish risk-based review plans, deliverables, hold points, and decision records
• Support planning studies, preliminary engineering, project initiation, structural studies, conceptual alternatives, estimates, schedules, business cases, VDP activities, and Appropriation Requests
• Lead or support concept reviews covering structural systems, load criteria, load paths, foundations, framing, existing-building modifications, and equipment interfaces
• Support value analysis, value engineering, cost-benefit analysis, design-to-budget decisions, lifecycle considerations, resiliency, flexibility, and constructability
• Prepare and maintain Statements of Requirements, Requests for Proposals, structural design requirements, specifications, standard details, design guides, templates, and governance documents
• Support the GM Technical Documents Library and consistent application of approved structural standards
• Provide construction-phase support for structural issues, failures, deviations, substitutions, failed tests, field orders, design changes, and technical clarifications
• Support site visits, testing and inspection planning, critical submittal reviews, commissioning, start-up, and buyoff activities
• Provide technical input for operating-facility issues, condition assessments, repairs, replacements, monitoring, and continued-use alternatives
• Coordinate with engineering SMEs, project leadership, planners, operations, contractors, procurement, safety, environmental, permitting, and other stakeholders
• Communicate structural issues, risks, assumptions, alternatives, recommendations, and decision impacts to technical and nontechnical audiences
• Support structural loading, anchorage, fall-hazard, and fall-protection assessments
• Promote BIM/VDC workflows, document management, technical decision records, lessons-learned tracking, and reusable guidance
• Mentor project managers, design managers, planners, project teams, stakeholders, end users, and less-experienced engineers

Civil Engineer jobs in Michigan

Senior Structural Engineer, Construction