About Us
Chastain specializes in building and enhancing infrastructure, offering comprehensive services ranging from the design and construction inspection of transportation highways, roadways, and bridges to the engineering of civil site developments. Our mission is to unite communities by creating sustainable, innovative, and well-crafted environments where people can live, work, and play. Through our commitment to excellence, we contribute to the seamless integration of infrastructure that serves the functional needs of communities and fosters connectivity and quality of life. We offer competitive salaries and benefits according to individual education and work experience. We promote work-life balance for our employees by offering flexible work hours, a hybrid work plan, and paid time off. Our company culture aims to sustain and grow each of us professionally and individually to further serve YOU and our valued clients.
What a day in the life of the Structural/Bridge Project Manager would look like
You will leverage your structural engineering expertise to manage both our team and a diverse range of projects that address the company’s full structural engineering needs. Your portfolio will include transportation projects—such as bridges, culvert replacements, and repairs for municipalities, county highways, and the Illinois Department of Transportation—as well as non-transportation projects including small-scale buildings, steel industrial towers and platforms, retaining walls, and foundations. The following are some of the key responsibilities for this role:
- Clearly communicate project goals and expectations with staff and clients through both written and verbal channels.
- Lead on-site condition assessments utilizing existing plans to assist in creation of condition reports when requested by the Client.
- Mentor and guide staff while collaborating across departments to ensure comprehensive project support.
- Check all calculations and drawings created by structural designers and coordinate the changes back to the designers. On some occasions you will be asked to perform designs as well, which helps keep your skills fresh and up to date.
- Coordinate plans and specification submittal package with QA/QC reviewer.
- Work with the Department Head and Business Development Team on work backlog and strategic project pursuits.
What you will need to thrive in this role:
Education: A Bachelors degree in Engineering (Civil Engineering is preferred)
Licensure: S.E. license in Illinois or ability to obtain within 1 year
Experience: 8+ years of hands on structural engineering experience at a civil engineering firm, or equivalent governmental body, based in the United States. Design experience on simple transportation/roadway projects and bridge hydaulics is a plus.
Management: Experience managing, leading, and mentoring local and remote teams.
Location: Decatur, IL; hybrid schedule is available. Willingness to travel for project site visits across Illinois is required.
Software skills: Microsoft 365, Adobe, MicroStation. Experience in MDX Software, HECRAS and RISA3D is a plus.
Adaptability: excel at building, maintaining and adapting to a diverse client based
Align with our core values: We do what we say, we do what it takes, we have an outward mindset, we operate with integrity.
What we offer you:
- $5,000 sign-on bonus
- We provide four types of medical insurance plans, along with medical reimbursement and dependent care benefits
- We pay for dental insurance, and short-term/long-term disability insurance
- Employee and employee plus family life insurance options
- 401K plan with generous company match
- 7 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday
- Annual pay increases
- Relocation assistance
- Annual boot allowance
- Cell phone reimbursement plan
- Sam's Club and Costco membership reimbursement
- Verizon wireless employee discount program
- Paid-time off based on total industry tenure
- Flexible work hours and a hybrid work schedule
This position will be open until filled
Chastain and Associates LLC is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.
