Structural Engineer in Sydney

OPEN FOR SPONSORSHIP FOR THE RIGHT CANDIDATE!

ABOUT THE COMPANY

• Australian owned family business and Australia's leading overhead crane and hoist manufacturing company
• Growing & Fast Paced Organization
• Challenging and Rewarding Role

ABOUT THE ROLE

Eilbeck Cranes is seeking a fulltime Structural Engineer to lead our design operations in Moorlands, Ingleburn. You will own the end-to-end engineering process—from initial quotes to final compliance.

Duties but not limited to:

• Design Leadership: Execute structural calculations for cranes, portals, and heavy structures (quotation through post-award).
• Operational Excellence: Replace external contractors by building in-house design capacity and improving manufacturing cost-efficiency.
• Compliance & QA: Ensure 100% adherence to Eilbeck Quality Systems, IMS documentation, and WorkSafe/DMP requirements.
• Verification: Validate third-party calculations and maintain rigorous change management.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Minimum of 5 years experience on the below:

1. Technical Competency in Relevant Standards: Must know and actively work with the standards that govern crane and runway design in Australia and internationally:
• Crane-Specific Standards CMAA 70/74 (USA) — Bridge cranes and gantry cranes
• AS 2550 series — Safe use & operation (for integration)
• Structural Standards (Australia) AS 4100 — Steel structures
• AS/NZS 1170 — Structural actions Part 1: Dead/live Part 2: Wind Part 3: Crane loads / dynamic effects
• AS 3990 — Mechanical equipment steels
• AS/NZS 5100 — If runway integrated into a building/bridge structure
• Welding standards: AS/NZS 1554.1 — Structural welding
• AS 1554.5 — Welding of cranes & lifting equipment components
2. Ability to Model Crane-Specific Loads: Must fully understand non-building load cases, which are unique to crane structures:
• Dynamic & Fatigue Actions
• Impact factors
• Long travel/ cross travel acceleration loads
• Skewing forces
• Fatigue regions in welded joints
• Wheel loads under– Unbalanced loading
• Trolley eccentric loading
• Side thrust (CT braking, skewing)
• Runway Beam Loads
• Vertical wheel loads (static + dynamic)
• Horizontal loads (transverse & longitudinal)
• Crane surge and braking forces
• Lateral wheel loads per FEM or AS 1418
• Fatigue from repetitive cycles
• Rail bending + local bearing/stress checks
• Connection design for runway brackets or cap channels
3. Competency Using the Right Software Tools: For crane structures, should be proficient in:
• Structural Analysis SpaceGass
• Strand7
• Robot Structural Analysis
• RISA
• SAP2000
• ANSYS (if doing high-fidelity fatigue studies)
• Design/Detailing Advance Steel
• SolidWorks (for trolley/hoist frames)
• AutoCAD
• Specialised Crane Tools (optional but valuable)
• FEA for girder stability (lateral torsional buckling, distortional buckling)
• Wheel load calculators (custom or FEM-based)
4. Crane Girders: Specific Competencies: Girder Design Requirements:
• Welded box girders, RHS, plate girders, or hot-rolled profiles
• Lateral torsional buckling calculations
• Distortion under trolley eccentric loading
• Fatigue life calculation for welded joints
• Deflection control
• Vertical (usually L/1000 to L/750 depending on standard)
• Lateral (strict to prevent skewing)
• Local Checks
• Local web bending under wheel loads
• Web crippling
• Web buckling
• Flange local bending
• Stiffener design to address all above
5. Runway Beam & Support Structure Design: Runway Beam Requirements:
• Clip weld design and fatigue
• Beam bending + torsion
• Lateral loads from crane skewing
• Fatigue class assignment (FEM group 1–5)
• Supporting Structure Portal frames
• Columns & brackets
• Vibrations & resonance checks
• Anchor bolts & base plates
• Runway-to-building interaction
6. Understanding of Fabrication & Inspection: Must know how their design will be built:
• Welding
• Selecting correct weld sizes, types & fatigue classes
• Controlling distortion in welded plate girders
• Heat input considerations
• NDT requirements (UT, MT)
• Rail alignment tolerances
• Wheel-to-rail geometry
• End carriage alignment
• Inspection & QA
• WPS/PQR compliance
• Test certificates
• Material traceability (plate, bolts, weld consumables)
7. Certification & Professional Requirements (Australia):
• CPEng or RPEQ highly preferred, often required for signing off
• Registration with Engineers Australia
• Ability to issue:
• FEA verification
• Form 15 / Form 16 (QLD)
• Compliance statements to AS 1418 & AS 4100
• Industry Experience: Must have practical familiarity with:
• How cranes actually operate in the field
• Fatigue failures in crane girders
• Realistic dynamic factors beyond textbook assumptions
• Maintenance issues (cracks, wheel wear, runway alignment)
• An engineer without industrial crane experience will miss many of the load cases and fatigue issues that are essential.
• Documentation Requirements: Complete structural calculations:
• Load diagrams (wheel loads, reactions, lateral loads)
• Deflection analysis
• Welding details and notes

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Fulltime permanent position based in Moorlands, Ingleburn but potential to change contingent to business need.