PASSION + TRUST + OUTWARD MINDSET + EVOLUTION + MASTERY + OWNERSHIP 

At KL&A Engineers and Builders, we're not just a consulting firm; we're a catalyst for your career's next chapter. Join our collaborative team of engineers, construction managers, and steel detailers as we redefine engineering excellence. With a focus on sustainable design, innovation, and cost-effectiveness, your expertise will make a lasting impact on our projects and clients. If you're a passionate engineer ready to tackle challenges and drive change, let's shape the future of construction together. 

Project Engineers at KL&A collaborate closely with project managers to coordinate team activities, maintain design strategies, oversee project workflow, and uphold quality standards. They play a pivotal role in task delegation to design engineers, technicians, and administrative staff. We are dedicated to nurturing the management and leadership abilities of our project engineers through training, mentorship, and other avenues for growth. 

Project Engineer Responsibilities: 

• Review and maintain project schedules to ensure projects are completed on time. 

• Perform complex analysis tasks and prepare comprehensive project documents. 

• Apply material-specific codes proficiently across multiple jurisdictions and project types. 

• Train and mentor junior staff to enhance technical skills and facilitate career growth. 

• Review progress documents, ensuring conformance of calculations and adherence to quality standards. 

• Collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams on projects of moderate size or portions of major projects. 

• Represent the organization through client interactions and any industry events attended. 

• Engage with clients, contractors, and other industry associates.

• Demonstrates effective communication through written and verbal skills. 

Project Engineer Qualifications:

• ABET accredited degree in Structural or Architectural Engineering 

• Colorado Licensed PE, SE, or ability to pursue licensure within 6 months of hire

• 5-9 years of design experience across various building types

• Experience on major projects of moderate scope with complex design features

• Eligibility to work in the US without sponsorship, both presently and in the future

Bonus Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Revit Structures

• Experience with RAM and/or RISA analysis models

To Be Successful:

• Bring your passion and strengths to cultivate a fulfilling career. 

• Foster trust through strong interpersonal skills.

• Pursue continuous self-improvement on a journey to mastery.

• Demonstrate dedication to client-centered service and technical excellence. 

• Adept at managing multiple priorities concurrently

• Proactively solve problems by collaborating with others to find optimal solutions.

• Bring a sense of humor and approach challenges with humility. 

KL&A Benefits: 

• Medical: Approx 80% of Family policy is paid by KL&A

• Family Dental and Vision paid 100% by KL&A 

• Short- and Long-Term Disability  

• Life Insurance

• 401(k) plan with company match

• Employee owned

• Vacation and sick leave

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid Holidays

Salary: $90,000 – $102,000 Annually

Bonuses are awarded at discretion, not guaranteed. 

Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs not on race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local laws. At no time will we knowingly permit discrimination toward an employee for any unlawful reason. All such discrimination is unlawful, and all persons involved in the operations of KL&A are prohibited from engaging in this type of conduct.  

About KL&A, Inc.

KL&A, Inc. is a firm of structural engineers and builders with offices in Colorado and Wyoming. We have been recognized consistently since 2006 as one of the top ten best structural engineering firms to work for in the U.S., and are known among our clients as creative, responsive, and the structural engineer of choice for unique challenges of form, schedule, budget, or project delivery method. Our structural design work covers a wide range of project and structural system types, and we work all over the U.S. In one key respect, we are unique in the country, having vertically integrated the process of structural design, steel detailing, fabrication and erection of architecturally driven steel structures.

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