Fellow Engineer-Structural Analyst

Edgewater Technical Associates is looking for a Fellow Engineer-Structural Analyst to support the Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina. This full-time, onsite opportunity sits with a firm that operates nationwide from its New Mexico base and five regional offices, delivering engineering and technical services to DOE, DOD, and NRC projects as well as private sector work. The company emphasizes collaboration across disciplines to solve high-hazard challenges, with this role targeted at someone who wants to contribute to critical nuclear projects in a hands-on environment. Applications are due by 11/16/26 (by Noon ET).

The Fellow Engineer-Structural Analyst role is built for someone who combines deep structural experience with leadership and an ability to guide complex problems from concept through implementation. You’ll help shape solutions in a field that requires staying current with technical trends and standards, coordinating with customers and the work group, and delivering clear results in both written and spoken form. It’s a position that rewards initiative, technical depth, and the ability to manage schedules and budgets for major technical tasks.

Ideal candidates will enjoy working in a safety-conscious, multi-disciplinary setting where you can mentor others, lead task teams, and drive meaningful outcomes at a DOE/NRC-regulated site.

A day in the life on the Savannah River Site

You’ll draw on your broad technical background to address complex problems, applying advanced practices and materials or processes that may be new or specialized. Leadership is part of the job, as you’ll guide teams, determine effective solutions, and stay in touch with both internal capabilities and customer needs. Planning is also key, with responsibilities that include developing schedules, budgets, and personnel requirements for major technical tasks, tracking progress and expenditures, and ensuring quality across the work. Communication is ongoing, as you’ll share results and objectives with customers, colleagues, managers, and oversight groups, and you’ll prepare reports for external publication as needed.

Must-have qualifications

• You’re recognized as an internal expert in your field and contribute to knowledge in the discipline through publications or professional society presentations.
• You have eight or more years of recent design and analysis experience for NRC or DOE regulated nuclear facilities.
• You can demonstrate hands-on experience with finite element analysis.
• You show working knowledge of one or more of these software packages: STAAD, ANSYS or ABAQUS, or similar codes.
• You possess working knowledge of National Codes and Standards, specifically IBC, AISC (ASD, LRFD, & N690), ACI (318 & 349) and ASCE (4, 7 & 43).
• You are able to perform field walk-downs of the job site for the engineering work, which may involve uneven surfaces, long walks, ladders to access remote areas, and dressing out in protective clothing.

Nice-to-have qualifications

• Previous experience at SRS
• Current Professional Engineer registration in Civil or Structural Engineering
• Experience analyzing structural response to explosion, including blast/detonation and deflagration
• Experience with DOE natural phenomena hazard (NPH), Standard 1020 criteria

Practical details you should know

The position is onsite in Aiken, SC, with duties that align to a full-time, on-site work arrangement. Applicants must be a U.S. citizen and must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE “Q” security clearance, with the understanding that an active DOE clearance is not initially required to perform assigned duties. Field work may include site visits and access to construction zones requiring protective clothing and physical effort.

Tips for applicants

Place the eight-plus years of NRC/DOE nuclear facilities design and analysis experience, along with your finite element analysis skills, right at the top of your resume so the hiring team sees it first.

Offer concrete examples that prove you’ve acted as an internal expert and driven solutions in complex projects, and highlight any publications or professional presentations that show your contribution to the field.

Be ready to talk about field walk-downs and how you handle safety, logistics, schedules, and budgeting on actual site tasks, including any leadership roles you’ve had on task teams.

Ask a targeted question about the role’s explosion/ blast or NPH work and how field walk-downs feed into project decisions, plus how collaboration with other sites shapes the program at Savannah River Site.

How to apply

If you’re interested, follow the application steps on the company’s careers page: www.edgewatertech.net/careers. Edgewater Technical Associates will not submit your resume without first discussing the opportunity with you and obtaining your permission to forward it. Applications are due by 11/16/26 by Noon ET.