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Senior Civil Engineer

AECOM
Los Angeles, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 24 Nov 2025

About the role

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

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 Senior Civil Engineer based in Los Angeles office. This role will be responsible for performing engineering activities to support planning, designing, construction, maintenance, and alteration of buildings, highways, bridges, airports, dams, tunnels, water/sewage systems, power plants, and transportation system projects. Includes estimating and determining feasibility based on analysis of maps/aerial photographs, soil composition, terrain, hydrology, geology, and environmental impact studies.

Join our dynamic team supporting exciting projects! This role will be supporting LA28.  With an unprecedented scope, we’ll support full delivery of the venue infrastructure program for the Games, featuring 50+ sports, 800+ events and more than 15,000 Olympic and Paralympic athletes. Beyond our role with LA28, we’ve been trusted to move the city’s infrastructure forward across the energy transition, water security, mobility, sports, education, public safety, climate adaptation and carbon reduction.

About Buildings + Places

AECOM’s Buildings + Places practice includes architecture, interiors, building engineering, workplace strategy, business transformation, asset advisory, economics and development planning, master planning, urban planning, and landscape architecture in a dynamic, interactive, and creative work environment.

With a range of expertise from strategy and design through project realization, we create better outcomes to grow economies, protect natural systems, conserve natural resources, make societies more equitable and connect and engage people through innovative, sustainable design solutions.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • Serves as lead engineer on mid- to large size projects.
  • Provides specialized technical input to studies and design for staff's specific area of expertise.
  • Approves and signs off on work.
  • Provides technical expertise for studies and design efforts.
  • Presents complex technical solutions to clients.
  • Performs quality control reviews of work developed by others.
  • Participates in development of technical proposals.
  • Provides estimates for the engineering budget and schedule to meet requirements on large projects.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

  • Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering or Architectural Engineering and 8 years of experience equivalency of experience and/or education.
  • Experience shall include a minimum of 3 years of project management or deputy project management experience including responsible charge of supporting staff engineers as well as project contact and coordination with clients, stakeholders, and authorities having jurisdiction. 
  • Demonstrated experience in use of REVIT/AutoCAD including Civil 3D provide production support as a portion of team support and development.
  • Applicant will have familiarity with all disciplines normally involved with vertical construction projects.  Engineering experience shall include design of private development projects and associated infrastructure, transportation projects focused on local roadways and associated improvements, and utility projects with a focus on water and wastewater lines.
  • Specific design experience shall include grading and drainage plans, coordinate control plans, phasing plans, storm drainage plan and profiles, roadway plans, traffic control plans, water and wastewater plans, preparation of hydraulic calculations for drainage and utilities, preparation of storm water management reports, preparation of project development reports, preparation of geometric and pavement calculations, preparation of civil engineering detail plans, and preparation of specifications in a var

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