Senior Civil Design Engineer (Site & Infrastructure)

Brown and Caldwell has an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated Senior Civil Site/Infrastructure Engineer to join our civil design team.  This is a great opportunity to work in a growth-oriented professional consulting firm.  The successful candidate will work on various projects for municipal, industrial, and federal clients. We offer a collaborative, multi-discipline environment to develop innovative, cost-effective designs for new facilities, expansions, upgrades and retrofits.

In this position you will be responsible for providing support and/or leading the civil design effort on small to large projects working directly with other engineers and design staff. This includes collaboration with our structural, mechanical, process and electrical engineers and designers on those designs. Projects include both conventional design/bid/build and alternative delivery such as design/build.

You will be responsible for working effectively with local and remote design team members to meet and exceed project schedule and quality goals. You will assist in the civil discipline portions of business development activities.  This includes developing civil scope and engineering level of effort estimates as well as maintaining project budgets and schedules. You will find that we offer a non-hierarchical, collaborative, and supportive environment, allowing you to do your best work. You will be trusted to do the right thing by our project managers and external clients and given flexibility to manage your schedule to achieve this.

When you join Brown and Caldwell you will enjoy a unique and welcoming culture and we are proud that many of our employees have been with us a decade or more. The work we do is interesting, challenging, and wide-ranging in nature, and so is our client base.

Detailed Description:

Our ideal candidate will have strong verbal and written communication skills, be highly organized, proactive, and capable of working in a diverse team environment and handling multiple tasks with competing priorities. You will be working with technical staff and executing the following types of work:

• Perform engineering work in coordination with the Civil Design Discipline team on a variety of water, wastewater, and stormwater projects. This includes site improvements at pump stations and treatment plants, linear utilities and construction, stormwater grading and drainage, and retrofits for municipal and private industrial clients.
• Assist in project scope and budget development, as well as, assisting in project design.
• Supports project managers by providing technical leadership on civil-site projects including preparation of grading, drainage, site layout, utility, and erosion control plans
• Reviews work of others for quality and resolving design and development problems
• Assists in the preparation or modification of reports, specifications, plans, permits, and designs for projects
• Undertake technical and feasibility studies including site investigations
• Use a range of computer software’s for developing detailed designs
• Assists in client contact and communication, and attends client meetings
• Ability to lead civil engineering designs, preparing reports, construction drawings, specifications, and calculations for a variety project elements
• Knowledge and understanding of hydrology and hydraulics associated with the design of both open channel, closed conduits, stormwater management facilities, reservoirs, and erosion control practices
• Support the creation of studies, permitting application documents and alternative analyses
• Oversee and complete data collection, manipulation, analysis, and documentation
• Conduct field work, such as site investigations, as necessary for various projects, including on occasion, visiting the job site for construction observation duties
• Check performance or conformity with plans and specifications through field inspections as part of engineering services during construction
• Perform submittal reviews, requests for information, correspondence, change requests, and change orders for construction projects
• Communicate effectively and coordinate with project teams including other disciplines (engineers and designers)
• Coordinate civil project work with surveyors, geotechnical, architectural, process, mechanical, and electrical engineers and consultants
• Contribute to company standard detail and specification development and updates.
• Supervise employees; evaluating annual performance, manage performance, mentor, and train.
• Mentor junior- and entry-level engineers
• Strong sense of urgency and self-initiative to meet client deadlines
• Additional duties may include marketing and business development, project management assistance, professional development, propo