Careers

Job openings on the Walter P Moore site are pulled from the iCIMS API.

iCIMS

This section walks through the details of the how data is fetched from the iCIMS API for display on the site.

Fetching all jobs

First, we use the iCIMS Search API to request a summarized list of all jobs. This will return JSON resembling the following:

{
    "searchResults": [
        {
            "portalUrl": "https://careers-walterpmoore.icims.com/jobs/3370/structural-intern-2025/job",
            "self": "https://api.icims.com/customers/4675/portals/17/3370",
            "id": 3370,
            "updatedDate": "2024-10-23 07:12 PM"
        },
        {
            "portalUrl": "https://careers-walterpmoore.icims.com/jobs/3369/structural-intern---summer-2025/job",
            "self": "https://api.icims.com/customers/4675/portals/17/3369",
            "id": 3369,
            "updatedDate": "2024-10-23 06:49 PM"
        },
        {
            "portalUrl": "https://careers-walterpmoore.icims.com/jobs/3367/structural-technical-modeler/job",
            "self": "https://api.icims.com/customers/4675/portals/17/3367",
            "id": 3367,
            "updatedDate": "2024-10-21 06:00 PM"
        }
    ]
}

Fetching each individual job

Next, we loop through each item in searchResults and use the id to make an additional API request for the details of each individual job. This will return the following:

{
    "header": [
        {
            "label": "Title",
            "value": "Structural Intern 2025"
        },
        {
            "label": "Req Number",
            "value": "2024-3341"
        },
        {
            "label": "Job Location",
            "value": "US-GA-Atlanta\nUS-TX-Austin\nUS-NC-Charlotte\nUS-IL-Chicago\nUS-TX-Dallas\nUS-MO-Kansas City\nUS-NV-Las Vegas\nUS-FL-Orlando\nUS-NC-Raleigh\nUS-FL-Tampa\n..."
        },
        {
            "label": "Category",
            "value": "Internships"
        }
    ],
    "description": [
        {
            "label": "Responsibilities",
            "value": "<p style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">We seek well prepared students of top engineering schools to expand their education in structural engineering through the internship program offered at Walter P Moore. As an engineering intern in our structural engineering group, you will participate on project teams for architectural projects of all types, including commercial, sports, healthcare, and public assembly buildings. You will also be eligible to participate in our in-house staff development program.</span></p>"
        },
        {
            "label": "Qualifications",
            "value": "<p style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">A sound technical background, strong communication skills&nbsp;and enthusiasm for the challenges of designing great structures are required. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p><ul><li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">BS - Civil Engineering or completion of a minimum of 24 hours of engineering coursework towards BS in Civil Engineering</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Accepted in or plans to apply for graduate program in Civil Engineering with structural emphasis</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">EIT preferred</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Excellent verbal and written communication skill required</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Flexible scheduling but should be consistently available a minimum of 20 hours per week</span></li></ul><p style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><br />Walter P Moore is an equal employment opportunity employer, and provides equal employment opportunities (including offering competitive compensation and benefit packages) to all employees and applicants for employment. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to any characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws and encourage all to apply including veterans and individuals with disabilities.</span></p>"
        },
        {
            "label": "Overview",
            "value": "<p style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Walter P Moore is an international company of engineers, architects, innovators, and creative people who solve some of the world&rsquo;s most complex structural and infrastructure challenges. Providing structural, diagnostics, civil, traffic, parking, transportation, enclosure, WPM technology and construction engineering services, we design solutions that are cost- and resource-efficient, forward-thinking, and help support and shape communities worldwide. Founded in 1931 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, our 800+ professionals work across 24 U.S. offices and 7 international locations.</span></p>"
        }
    ]
}

Caution

The example above represents the entirety of the data we receive from iCIMS. Any data that is not included in this API response can not be used for the website, regardless of how it is represented in the iCIMS admin.

Formatting cities for job

iCIMS doesn’t provide us with a list of cities for each job. Instead, it provides a string of locations separated by newlines. We parse this string and extract the cities.

1. Take the list of cities from the iCIMS API:

   "value": "US-GA-Atlanta\nUS-TX-Austin\nUS-NC-Charlotte\nUS-IL-Chicago\nUS-TX-Dallas\nUS-MO-Kansas City\nUS-NV-Las Vegas\nUS-FL-Orlando\nUS-NC-Raleigh\nUS-FL-Tampa\n..."

2. Remove the ellipsis from the end of the string (if present) and split the string by newline characters to get a list of individual cities:

   ["US-GA-Atlanta", "US-TX-Austin", "US-NC-Charlotte", "US-IL-Chicago", "US-TX-Dallas", "US-MO-Kansas City", "US-NV-Las Vegas", "US-FL-Orlando", "US-NC-Raleigh", "US-FL-Tampa"]

   3. Extract the city names from the strings:

   ["Atlanta", "Austin", "Charlotte", "Chicago", "Dallas", "Kansas City", "Las Vegas", "Orlando", "Raleigh", "Tampa"]

We use the resulting array of each individual city to match the job up with the appropriate cities in the the CMS.

Caution

the iCIMS API will only include so many cities in the list they provide. Any additional cities will be left off and replaced with a ’…’ at the end of the value. We currently have no way of retrieving these missing cities.

Display on the site

When you visit the Walter P Moore Careers page, you will see a list of job openings.

• Sorting: This list is ordered based on the post date for the job - the date we first imported the job from iCIMS - from newest to oldest.

Further reading

• Walter P Moore Job Openings