Civil Engineer

Depending on your experience and interests, and the projects that we have in front of us, your responsibilities may include:

• Develop site layouts, grading plans, and earthwork designs
• Design stormwater management, drainage, and conveyance systems
• Design and coordinate sanitary sewer, watermain, and other site utilities
• Develop roads, access drives, parking areas, and pavement layouts
• Perform hydrologic and hydraulic analyses
• Develop erosion and sediment control designs
• Support slope stabilization, slope protection, drainage, and related site improvements
• Prepare construction drawings, technical specifications, calculations, reports, and cost estimates
• Coordinate with geotechnical, structural, mechanical, electrical, water resources, and other engineering disciplines
• Participate in field investigations and construction support
• Work directly with project managers and, as your experience grows, clients
• Review work prepared by designers, engineers in training, and engineering interns
• Take increasing responsibility for technical decisions, project coordination, schedules, and budgets

You'll encounter a variety of projects in this position. Your work may include:

• General civil/site development
• Roads, parking areas, and site access
• Water and utility infrastructure
• Heavy civil projects
• Renewable energy and solar facilities
• Power generation sites
• Substations and energy infrastructure
• Lock and dam facilities
• Flood protection and river-related projects
• Dredging and river-related improvements
• Erosion repair, slope protection, and stabilization projects

We're particularly interested in engineers who:

• Like solving different kinds of civil engineering problems
• Want exposure beyond a single market or repetitive project type
• Are comfortable figuring things out rather than simply repeating established designs
• Enjoy working closely with CAD technicians, engineers, and other disciplines
• Can take ownership of a design while knowing when to ask for input
• Want to continue developing technically while gaining project management and client experience
• Enjoy helping younger engineers and designers develop

You won't necessarily spend your career designing the same type of subdivision, roadway, or drainage system repeatedly. You'll have opportunities to apply core civil engineering skills to very different facilities and project conditions.

You'll have opportunities to grow across grading, drainage, stormwater, utilities, earthwork, roads, site development, erosion control, and other civil disciplines rather than becoming narrowly specialized too early.

Civil engineering often sits at the foundation of a project. You will collaborate with structural, geotechnical, mechanical, electrical, water resources, and other specialists to make the overall project work.

After 5-10 years, we don't expect you to have everything figured out. We do expect you to be ready to take on more responsibility. As you develop, there are opportunities to move toward technical leadership, project management, client leadership, or team leadership.

Our projects aren't limited to producing drawings. You'll have opportunities to participate in field investigations, work through constructability issues, support construction, and see how designs perform in the field.