Project Engineer

Project Engineer

Purpose: To provide project design in AutoCAD Civil 3D, including plans, calculations, specifications, and estimates for entire projects and portions of larger projects, with moderate direction from senior staff.

Duties and Responsibilities:

General Duties:

• Uphold and fulfill our client’s mission, purpose statement, strategic plan, and core values.
• Be an ambassador of our client; internal and external.
• Uphold our client’s high standard of quality and excellence.
• Foster and promote a positive work environment and healthy company culture.
• Follow all our client’s policies and procedures.
• Follow all engineering group policies and procedures.
• Represent our client in a professional manner.
• Meet your chargeability target as set annually by the service council leader.
• Submit timecards and reimbursables on time.
• Meet budgets and deadlines.
• Share profession-related talents with others in the firm.
• Continued career path development towards license or professional certification.
• Travel, as necessary, to support the firm and clients.
• Provide other duties as necessary to support the success of the company.
• Customarily and regularly exercise discretion and independent judgment, which will affect matters of consequence to the business or our customers.

Building Relationships and Networking:

• Interact with clients and represent our client in a professional and courteous manner, understanding how performance reflects on our client’s reputation and ability to secure return clients.
• Solicit work with existing client contacts and ensure return business by providing exceptional client service.
• Communicate effectively and proactively with peers, employees, and management.

Project-related:

• Direct and oversee CAD and design work of junior staff.
• Provide project design (e.g. specifications, calculations, processing, plans, estimates) for an entire small project or a portion of a larger project and producing accurate CAD that meets appearance and CAD standards.
• Manage smaller projects under supervisor of project manager.
• Coordinate with client, under direction of project manager.
• Learn the scope and budget available for the tasks assigned and produce work within those constraints.
• Assist with preparation of proposals and budgets.
• Oversee overall project budget for managed projects.
• Assist in the preparation of task budgets within a proposal, under the direction of a project manager.
• Visit project sites (occasionally) for initial site visit and to confirm design issues, monitor construction, etc.

Mentoring and Training Staff:

• Monitor performance of junior staff in staying within scope and budget.
• Prepare the report and direct the activities of junior staff in gathering data.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education and Experience:

• Required: Professional Degree(s) Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering.
• Years of Professional Experience Minimum of five (5) years of experience in engineering.
• Professional Knowledge Current knowledge of professional codes, laws, computer applications, and trends.

Licensing and Certification:

• Required: California Professional Engineer’s license.
• Valid California driver’s license.
• Ability to drive a vehicle for company business and to comply with our client’s Motor Vehicle Policy.

Knowledge, Abilities, and Skill:

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence to clients and agencies.
• Ability to speak effectively before clients and coworkers.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to do job estimating.
• Ability to work in a team setting.
• Excellent customer/client service skills and multi-tasking abilities.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Outlook, Word, and Excel).
• Strong in AutoCAD Civil 3D.

Physical Demands:

• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
• The following physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:
• Requires ability to travel.
• Requires ability to work in all outdoor and weather conditions.
• Requires use of fingers, hands, and arms to handle office materials.
• Requires talking and hearing.
• Requires frequent standing, walking, and sitting.
• Requires color vision, close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust visual focus.
• Requires considerable time spent in front of computer screens.
• Requires the ability to work in environment with a moderate noise level.
• Requires the ability to read typed and hand-written reports.
• Occasionally requires climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling.
• Occasionally requires lifting or moving up to 25 pounds.
• Occasionally requires exposure to moving mechanical parts, high precarious places, fumes, or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, outdoor weather conditions, risk of electrical shock, and/or risk of radiation and vibration.