Civil Designer/Senior Civil Designer

Job Description

Vogel Engineering + Timmons Group is seeking a Civil Designer/Senior Civil Designer candidate for our Private Land Development Group located in our Ellicott City, MD office location.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• As an individual contributor, uses professional judgment to direct and independently complete assigned engineering designs.

• Actively assists the Project Manager, or acts as Project Manager, and assigns tasks and schedules to Project Engineers and project team members, answers questions and monitors progress.

• Checks the accuracy (formal and informal QA/QC) of assigned tasks completed by other engineering and technical staff.

• Makes major design decisions that meet the needs of external customers while coordinating the impact of such decisions on related project efforts.

• Pro-actively identifies technical, schedule or financial issues and seeks resolution from the Project Manager and/or the client, as appropriate to the situation.

• Assists the client in bidding or contractor selection if authorized by the Project Manager.

• Monitors construction and supervises field personnel assigned to a task, data collection or a specific project.

• Responds to contractor questions and issues, and prepares and issues project addendum as needed.

• Recommends and prepares change orders.

• Participates in the creation of engineering services proposals, including the calculation/estimation of time schedules and costs of the proposed work.

• Independently communicates on technical matters with the client.

• Acts as technical expert on assigned projects when operating as an individual contributor and acts as Project Manager on smaller scope or specialty projects as assigned.

Skills/Requirements of a successful candidate include but are not limited to:

• At least five years of design/engineering experience in civil engineering is required

• Experience with Howard County, MD projects is preferred

• Intermediate to advanced ability to use AutoCAD Civil 3D software and other engineering automation tools (Revit, BIM 360)

• Must be capable of correctly operating technical analysis equipment and computer equipment

• Must possess strong technical verbal and technical writing skills, and be able to read technical literature and engineering plans

• Must possess strong analytical and problem solving skills, and be able to apply professional knowledge to the solution of both routine and non-routine tasks and engineering activities

• Is expected to develop financial project management skills through assigned project work and assigned project management assignments

• Must exhibit maturity, professionalism and a willingness to solve internal and external client problems

• Must demonstrate two-way communication to effectively work with internal staff and external clients