Full-Time

Brock Senior Structural Engineer

CTB

CTB

201-500 employees

Designs grain storage and poultry systems

No salary listed

Des Moines, IA, USA + 1 more

More locations: Elkhart, IN, USA

In Person

Up to 10% travel may be required, with potential international travel.

Category
Architecture & Civil Engineering (1)
Required Skills
AutoCAD
Word/Pages/Docs
Excel/Numbers/Sheets
Requirements
  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Civil or Structural Engineering
  • Experience: 5+ years of structural steel design; experience in agricultural or industrial projects is preferred; or recent college graduate with 1 year of experience within a similar industry
  • Certification: PE is a plus
  • Functional Skills: Solid understanding of structural analysis and structural steel design: AISC 360, AISC 341; knowledge of codes including: International Building Code, ASCE 7, OSHA 1910; detail-oriented, thorough, with the ability to complete projects on time
  • Technology Aptitude/Skills: Knowledge and previous training in 3D structural analysis software, preferably RISA; experience in AutoCAD, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word
  • Language Skills: Able to read/write/speak English fluently; with strong presentation and excellent verbal/written skills
  • Leadership/Behaviors: Ability to engage with other team members, consultants, and others to meet agreed timelines, and budgets; organized, good at setting reasonable yet aggressive project plans and timelines, can take a little risk to meet objectives, innovative and creative in thought processes, desire to build a career by creating an impact in the role, can work independently with a high level of integrity and is self-directed with a high customer focus, can manage ambiguity and changing priorities
  • Culture Match Behaviors: Open communication, can initiate dialog to help find solutions, team player, can respectfully share information to help develop and adhere to best practices
Responsibilities
  • Perform structural design and analysis calculations using governing code and standards, engineering formulas, skills and experience
  • Layout and detail portions of projects using schematic layout by project lead engineer. May be assigned responsibility for schematic or conceptual layouts when qualified
  • Provide drawing for own designs and produce sketches to incorporate in drawings by Detailers
  • Reviews, analyzes and applies modeling results to code conformance requirements
  • Utilizes a gated design process while keeping a master project list to communicate progress
  • Creates and develops new structural designs that will meet or exceed customer and regulatory needs
  • Coordinates and supports prototype construction and validates the product to ensure it meets design and cost specifications
  • Communicates with the internal manufacturing, supply, and sales teams to ensure all design project goals and deliverables are achieved
  • Coordinate work with other disciplines on customer projects
  • Provides onsite or in field support to customers and sales team with product presentations, technical service and installation techniques that will meet or exceed the service and brand promise goals
  • Directs and supports the activities for product documentation, manuals, sales presentations/tools and technical literature to ensure product features and benefits are accurately documented
  • Supports and participates in the product training for sales and customer service to enhance the teams’ technical knowledge of product performance, features and benefits

CTB, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets systems for farming, split into two groups: the Grain Group (grain storage, handling, and conditioning) and the Protein Group (poultry, pig, and egg production and poultry processing). Its products are sold through a global network of independent dealers to farmers and food processors, helping them improve efficiency and profitability. CTB differentiates itself as part of Berkshire Hathaway with an integrated, end-to-end portfolio and dependable, high-quality equipment across grain and animal production. The goal is to help customers run more efficient, profitable farming and food-processing operations.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Milford, Connecticut

Founded

1952

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What believers are saying

  • Global food-demand growth supports CTB's grain, poultry, pig, and egg markets.
  • Ongoing manufacturing expansion in Milford can deepen capacity and local execution.
  • Digital marketing and compliance hires support broader reach and tighter operations.

What critics are saying

  • Dependence on farm capital spending exposes revenue to commodity-cycle downturns.
  • Independent dealers reduce CTB's control over pricing, inventory, and customer loyalty.
  • Animal-health shocks can simultaneously suppress poultry, pig, and egg equipment orders.

What makes CTB unique

  • CTB spans grain systems and animal-production equipment across thirteen business units.
  • Berkshire Hathaway ownership provides patient capital and operational backing.
  • Its dealer-distributor network reaches global agricultural customers efficiently.

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