in a hybrid capacity at our Houston, Texas office.
As a key member of our team, you’ll join our collaborative process providing our clients with award-winning planning, engineering, construction management, and design-build project delivery. You’ll be performing civil design calculations, writing specifications, developing cost estimates, and preparing site and utility layouts while conforming to design standards for a variety of Federal projects.
You’ll lead civil work designs for a wide variety of clients, including conventional sites for buildings, water, and wastewater infrastructure. Your work will include the site designs for pump stations, treatment facilities, conveyance and storage systems, locks and dams, tidal gates and barriers, and floodwalls. Responsibilities will also include storm water drainage designs, small and large-scale hydrology and hydraulic modeling in support of conveyance systems. You’ll have the opportunity to coordinate project assignments with other engineers and technicians in and out of your discipline group to review and recommend required changes to drawings supplied by contractors, clients, and other engineers. You will attend multi-discipline design meetings, interact with clients, and lead a team of EITs.
Responsibilities include:
- Perform non-routine and complex assignments from verbal instructions
- Work closely with design originator and Project Managers
- Inform Project Manager(s) of progress on assigned projects and request work or additional resources when needed
- Recommend design changes requiring sound judgment and discretion
- Flexible in work assignments and team assignments
- Research and implement regulatory requirements and design standards
- Review drawings for completeness
- Analyze sketches, notes, and other input material to determine and plan the best approach to develop designs with minimal supervision
- Some travel may be required, including international
- Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in Conveyance Engineering
- Professional Engineer (P.E.) license
- At least 10 years relevant professional experience for civil works design projects
- Federal design experience for USACE
- Experience working in a multi-discipline environment
- Construction support services for civil works projects
- Proficiency in AutoCAD and Civil 3D software
- Knowledge of design codes & standards (International Building Code, UFC’s etc.)
- Proactive attitude of taking independent initiative, exhibiting creative problem-solving, and eagerness to learn, while remaining dedicated to teamwork
- Experience with office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Teams) and review software (Bluebeam)
- United States Citizenship
Ideally, you'll also have:
- Experience leading project teams and mentoring junior staff
- Federal design experience for DoD, Federal Civilian and/or Defense Contractor project experience
- Heavy civil works experience with onsite participation in construction activities
- Experience with MicroStation
- Strong analytical and organizational skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills including presentations
- United States Security Clearance or the ability to obtain
