Concrete Research Engineer

Roughly 600,000 bridges make up the National Highway System, and the concrete research happening in this lab directly shapes the design specifications engineers nationwide rely on to build and rate every one of them. When a bridge does fail, this is also the lab the National Transportation Safety Board and state DOTs call in to find out why. If you want research work with that kind of direct, visible impact — not just a report that sits on a shelf — this role is built for you.

Genex Systems is hiring a Concrete Research Engineer to plan and conduct structural research projects for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in the Structures Laboratory at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC), the nation's premier highway research facility.

The Structures Laboratory specializes in developing and testing innovative bridge designs, materials, and construction methods aimed at making the nation's bridges more efficient and durable. Its work spans full-scale testing of bridges and bridge components, field evaluation of in-service structures, and forensic investigation of structural failures for state Departments of Transportation, FHWA divisions, and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) — determining root causes of bridge failures and developing practices to prevent them from happening again.

• Plan and conduct structural research projects focused on concrete as used in the design, rating, and construction of bridges

• Select and wire instrumentation for data acquisition — including strain gauges, accelerometers, tiltmeters, potentiometers, linear variable differential transducers (LVDTs), extensometers, and load cells

• Set up and operate closed-loop, servovalve-controlled hydraulic testing systems