Engineering Technician - Structural

About Us

Larson Design Group (LDG) is an award-winning, employee-owned Architecture, Engineering, and Consulting Firm. Guided by our core values, we're expanding our team, opening new offices, and adding new offerings to provide responsive, innovative solutions to clients nationwide.

Being 100% employee-owned directly impacts our culture: it drives our decision-making, motivates our teams, increases our productivity, improves retention, and contributes to the future success of our company. Our culture is one where we work hard for our clients and for each other - and we have fun collaborating, sharing experience and expertise, and learning along the way. We're passionate about delivering exceptional quality, elevating client relationships, enriching the careers and lives of our employee owners, and enhancing the communities where we live and serve.

At LDG, we strive to create an organization where people want to work. We offer a flexible work environment, paid training for required licensures, competitive benefits, bonus plans, and a company-funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) while supporting your professional and personal growth.

Your Opportunity + Impact

The Engineering Technician is an entry-level technical role within the Engineering disciplines that can operate within any department. The Engineering Technician assists engineers in designing and compiling drawings and permit packages and completes simple to intermediate plan sets and drawings.

Key Responsibilities

• Uses CAD, Civil 3D, Revit, Sketch-Up, Photoshop, and other software programs relative to the discipline to develop simple to intermediate, technically accurate, clean, and deliverable drawings.

• Reviews work to ensure accuracy, makes corrections to work from red lines, and backchecks.

• Performs tasks within the assigned work-hour budget.

• Maintains documentation and project records.

• Provides technical coordination with other disciplines as assigned by Project Manager.

• Assists with simple design calculations, calculates quantities, reviews technical specifications, and prepares cost estimates.

• Promotes, utilizes, and supports quality assurance and quality control processes to improve the quality of deliverables and reduce design errors & omissions.

• Performs building surveys and related field work as assigned.

• Understands and manipulates client specific prototypes for given projects.

Education and Experience

• Education: Associates or Bachelor's degree in a Technical discipline preferred.

• Experience: No previous relevant work experience is required. Prior internships in the A/E industry is preferred.

• Licensure: n/a

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrates a strong desire to expand knowledge and take on new responsibilities within the engineering field.

• Proficient in Revit, AutoCAD Civil 3D,and/or Hydrologic and Hydraulic Software Packages to be used for Site Layout, Grading, Utility, and Storm Water Management Plan design and/or other discipline-specific programs preferred.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Power Point, Outlook).

• Excellent organizational and time management skills to handle multiple tasks and meet project deadlines effectively.

• Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a project team.

EEO Statement

Larson Design Group, Inc. is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization.