Open position
Texas Licensed Professional Engineer
Review engineer and engineer of record work for a statewide firm, performed remotely against a written review standard.
- Engagement
- Part time retainer, with scope to grow
- Location
- Remote, anywhere in Texas
- Compensation
- Retainer, agreed with the selected engineer
About the role
The seat, in plain terms
This is the seat the firm is built around. A review engineer reads field records produced to a written protocol, forms the opinion, and takes responsible charge of the sealed deliverable. An engineer of record takes responsible charge of design work: foundations, framing, and the drawing sets that get a project permitted.
The honest description of the review model is that it is remote and it is volume oriented. You are not driving to properties. You are reading a standardized record, applying judgment, and putting your seal on a document that a lender, a carrier, or a building official will rely on. Engineers who find that unappealing should say so early. Engineers who have been looking for exactly that arrangement usually recognize it in the first paragraph.
What does not change is responsible charge. If the record in front of you does not support an opinion, the answer is that it does not, and the job goes back to the field. Nobody in this firm is authorized to ask you to seal past that. A firm that would ask is one that eventually costs an engineer their licence rather than its own.
One thing to be plain about, because it affects your decision. The firm's registration with the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors is not yet issued. A Texas firm registration requires an engineer in responsible charge to be named, so the selected engineer is named on that application. You would be joining at the point where the firm becomes able to practise, not after it.
What you will do
The work itself
Stated as tasks rather than as a mission, because this is the part that decides whether the seat is a fit.
- Read field records produced to a written protocol, form the engineering opinion, and take responsible charge of the sealed deliverable.
- Author and own the review protocols themselves, so the procedure that produces your evidence is one you set rather than one handed to you.
- Decide what the record does and does not support, and send work back to the field when it does not.
- Take responsible charge of design work where the service line calls for it: foundations, framing, and the drawing sets that get a project permitted.
- Be named as the engineer in responsible charge on the firm's registration application with the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.
- Set the standard that field certification is written against, so that a technician in Dalhart and a technician in Harlingen produce a record you can read the same way.
What we look for
Required
- An active Texas Professional Engineer licence in good standing.
- Structural competence in residential and light commercial work, or another discipline you can demonstrate against the service lines.
- Willingness to work to a written review standard rather than to personal preference.
- A clear line about what you will and will not seal, stated in the interview rather than discovered later.
What we look for
Preferred
- A windstorm inspection appointment from the Texas Department of Insurance. Not required, and a considerable plus: it is what makes coastal WPI-8 work possible at all, and it takes real effort to obtain.
- Willingness to pursue a TDI appointment. The firm supports the application, covers the cost, and gives you the coastal volume that makes it worth holding.
- Experience as an engineer of record on a firm registration, because the first months involve exactly that.
- Forensic or insurance engineering experience, particularly post storm assessment.
How you will work
The engagement, stated before the offer
Stated here rather than at the offer, because this is the part people usually find out about last.
The engagement starts as a part time retainer rather than a full time salary, because the honest position is that the review volume does not exist yet and inventing a headcount to look established is not something this firm does. The retainer is agreed with the selected engineer against a defined review commitment.
It is structured to grow with the volume it reviews. What that growth looks like is written into the agreement rather than promised in an interview.
Responsible charge is not shared and not delegated. What you seal is yours, and the firm's processes exist to make sure the record supporting it is complete before it reaches you.
The work is remote and asynchronous. Review happens against a queue rather than a calendar, so the hours are yours to arrange within the commitment you agree to.
Compensation
How pay is structured
How pay is structured. Figures are settled in the offer conversation rather than published, because the commitment they attach to is agreed at the same time.
- A retainer against a defined review commitment, agreed with the selected engineer and written into the agreement rather than set by a band.
- A per document component as review volume builds, so that the compensation follows the work rather than staying flat while the queue grows.
- The firm supports and pays for a Texas Department of Insurance windstorm appointment for an engineer willing to pursue one, because it is what makes coastal WPI-8 volume possible at all.
- Specific figures are settled in the offer conversation rather than published here. The review commitment they attach to is agreed at the same time, and a number published without it would describe nothing.
Growth
What this seat is intended to become
Written as intent rather than as a promise, because a firm at launch cannot promise a path and should not pretend to.
- The intent is that this seat becomes the firm's engineering leadership rather than one of many review seats. The engineer named on the firm registration is the engineer who sets how review works here.
- As volume supports it, the intent is to add review capacity under standards this seat authored, which makes the role progressively more about the standard and less about the queue.
- None of that is a promise, and it is written here as intent for that reason. What is contractual is the retainer, the commitment it attaches to, and the refusal right. Everything beyond that is what the firm is trying to build and would rather state honestly than dress up.
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