Structural Engineering Trainee, Structures & Process Equipment
HatchRequisition ID: 102173 Job Category: Campus Location: Mississauga, ON, Canada Join a company that is passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change. With more than 70 years of business and technical expertise in mining, energy, and infrastructure, our 10,000 colleagues in 150 countries tirelessly work toward bettering the industries in which we operate. With practical solutions that are safe, innovative and sustainable, we think globally while acting locally. Are you looking for an opportunity to join a diverse group of professionals who are committed to remaining exceptional? We look forward to hearing from you. Our Technologies team commercializes and delivers technologies across all three of Hatch's sectors: Metals, Energy, Infrastructure. We're a team of innovators and problem solvers who deliver custom and specialized engineering to deliver novel solutions and technologies. The Role The Structural Engineer will be part of the Structures & Process Equipment team within the Technologies Business Practice. The role is primarily focused on technical project execution, as well as client engagement, proposal development, and business-development activities. The successful candidate will perform structural engineering for heavy industrial structures and process equipment, including fitness-for-service and condition assessment of existing assets; design of novel structures, equipment, and engineered systems; and stress, thermal, and coupled thermo-mechanical assessment. Work may address complex phenomena including dynamic loading, vibration, seismic effects, fatigue, fracture, creep, crack propagation, and others using first-principles methods, finite element analysis (FEA), and other engineering tools. The Structural Engineer will prepare calculations, technical reports, specifications, and design drawings; collaborate with multidisciplinary project teams; and communicate technical findings clearly to clients and colleagues. The role will report to a Practice Area Lead or Project Manager, depending on project size and organization. As the successful candidate, you will: Plan, execute, and deliver structural engineering work for heavy industrial projects, meeting scope, quality, budget, and schedule objectives. Assess existing industrial structures and process equipment to determine condition, fitness-for-service, remaining life, repair requirements, and opportunities for continued or modified operation. Develop practical designs for new, modified, or novel structures and equipment where established design workflows may not be available. Perform first-principles calculations and numerical assessments, including linear and nonlinear stress and heat-transfer analysis in coupled thermo-mechanical assessment using finite element modelling. Evaluate structural response to static, thermal, dynamic, vibration, seismic, fatigue, creep, crack-propagation, and other relevant loading or degradation mechanisms. Prepare and review engineering calculations, design drawings, technical specifications, data sheets, scopes of work, technical memoranda, and reports. Apply safety, integrity, constructability, operability, and maintainability principles throughout engineering work. Apply relevant codes, standards, quality requirements, and internal procedures to engineering activities, including novel applications that require sound engineering judgment. Collaborate with other engineering disciplines, procurements personnel, project managers, and other specialists across offices and regions to deliver high-quality engineering work. Participate in design reviews, field investigations, site inspections, and technical discussions with clients and other stakeholders. Communicate analysis methods, assumptions, findings, risks, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences. Manage assigned tasks and small work packages with limited supervision, including coordination of inputs, monitoring of progress …