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Civil Engineering Manager

AECOM
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 27 Mar 2025

About the role

Company Description

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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Civil Manager to be based in Columbia, SC (alternatively, this role could work from Greenville, SC; Charleston, SC; Charlotte, NC with travel as needed to Columbia, SC).  As a Civil Manager with growing technical expertise and experience in demanding design driven projects, you will work with interdisciplinary teams on High Tech and Logistics Projects in a Programmatic approach.  We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.  Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of Opportunity.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

  • Design of utilities, roadways, general site development, grading and drainage, best management practices, erosion control, profiles, typical sections, cross sections, hydraulics
  • Drainage studies include low impact development strategies & hydrology.
  • Preparation of drawings, specifications, basis of design, technical memos.
  • Preparation of permits such as NPDES, SWPPP, Grading, DCAB, Civil Support of an Environmental Assessment
  • Works with other professional staff members to collaborate on reports, studies, drawings, and design narratives 
  • Utilizes AutoCad Civil 3D and Microsoft Office products including Excel, Outlook, Word and PowerPoint
  • Works in an office setting with potential meetings outside of the office or visits to sites where a project may be located 
  • Prepares complex project deliverables using a team of junior technical and support staff
  • May have formal supervisory responsibilities defining team operating standards and ensuring essential procedures are followed
  • Assists with proposals to provide services or obtain funding for projects or programs
  • Use client credibility gained from delivering high-quality technical services to expand work assignments
  • Communicates with clients to discuss work scope, request information to support project execution, and receive client comments on draft work products
  • Performs specific and limited portions of a broader assignment of an experienced engineer.
  • Gathers and correlates basic engineering data using established and well-defined procedures
  • Works on detailed or routine engineering assignments involving calculations and relatively simple tests.
  • Proposes approach to solve new problems encountered.
  • Performs interdisciplinary review of project deliverables and identifies discrepancies in results
  • Provides guidance to entry level engineers.
  • Prepares technical specification sections.
  • Performs work in accordance with agreed upon budget and schedule with moderate supervision

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, plus eight (8) years of relevant Civil Engineering experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
  • 2 years of demonstrated Civil Engineering Management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 10 or more years of experience
  • A current EIT in the State of South Carolina with ability to attain PE within 2 years
  • Excellent working knowledge of CAD Civil 3D, BIM-Revit, Adobe Creative Suite, InDesign, Sketchup, Lumion, V-Ray and Rhino 3D
  • Experience in Autodesk Revit
  • Experience with Bluebeam, Navisworks and Enscape
  • Experience with Adobe Photoshop and InDesign
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
  • Ability to meet quality, schedule and budget expectations
  • Desire to be mentored by leadership and provide mentor

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