Structural Engineer

Structural Engineer – Overhead Crane Design
Ingleburn | Permanent full-time | $135,000 - $160,000

Our client is a well-established Australian engineering and manufacturing business operating within the materials-handling sector is seeking an experienced Structural Engineer for its Ingleburn team.

With a national footprint supporting major industrial, mining, manufacturing and infrastructure clients, the business designs, manufactures and delivers complex overhead-crane, lifting and materials-handling systems.

Benefits

• Permanent, full-time position offering a highly competitive salary tailored to your specialist crane-design experience
• Ownership of technically complex projects from initial design and calculations through to fabrication and delivery.
• Work closely with experienced engineers, drafters and manufacturing teams in a practical, collaborative environment.

Key responsibilities 

• Complete the structural design and analysis of overhead-crane systems.
• Design bridge girders, runway beams and associated supporting structures.
• Calculate crane wheel loads, dynamic forces and relevant load combinations.
• Assess fatigue, buckling, deflection and local stresses within crane structures.
• Develop practical designs for fatigue-sensitive welded and fabricated steel components.
• Prepare engineering calculations, design reports and verification documentation.
• Use structural-analysis and FEA software to model and validate designs.
• Review drawings and provide technical guidance to drafting and manufacturing teams.
• Resolve engineering queries arising during fabrication, installation and commissioning.
• Independently manage design deliverables across multiple projects.
• Ensure designs comply with relevant crane, structural and manufacturing standards.

Requirements –

• A degree in Structural, Civil or a closely related engineering discipline.
• At least five years of direct, hands-on overhead-crane design experience.
• Experience personally designing crane structures—not solely inspecting, maintaining or commissioning cranes.
• Strong experience with bridge girders, crane runways and supporting structures.
• An understanding of both the crane structure and its interaction with the runway system.
• Experience calculating dynamic crane loads and fatigue-sensitive structural details.
• Knowledge of AS 1418 or another internationally recognised crane-design code.
• Experience with structural-analysis, FEA, calculation and CAD packages such as SpaceGASS, Strand7, Mathcad and AutoCAD, or comparable software.
• Practical knowledge of structural-steel fabrication, welding and manufacturing.
• CPEng, RPEQ or progress towards professional registration.