Reports to:

Practice Leader or Director of Discipline

Working Location:

In-Office

Minimum Required:

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in civil or related engineering field or equivalent

Experience

Preferred: 7+ years of experience in Civil Engineering design
**Commercial, Retail, and Residential site development Professional Engineer License, or ability to obtain

Duties:

• Routinely produces accurate and actionable professional design of subdivisions, grading plans, earthwork volumes and storm drainage calculations, design of utilities, including storm and sanitary sewers, paving, watermain, waterlines, waterline sizing, and street improvements.
• Proficiently utilizes Civil 3D, HydroCAD, WinSlamm, and other applicable software programs for design application, analyzation, and preparation.
• Researches and applies code requirements and standard design procedure manuals.
• Completes and verifies design computations/calculations and plan detailing for conformance with codes, manuals, and design considerations.
• Prepares opinions of cost, quantities, periodic reports, pay estimates, and datanecessary to document acceptability of materials and quantities for final payment
• Attends internal project team and external client/jurisdictional authorities meetings with a Sr. Project Manager
• Assists SR. Project Engineers in preparing project proposal scope, fees, and additional service requests.
• Assist Sr. Project Team members to track project scope and support project profitability by assisting and managing internal project team members time and task delegation.
• Lead staff through task delegation and oversight of project work including preparing quantity take-offs, bid tabs, opinion of probable cost estimates and other related bidding documents.
• Provides mentorship, technical assistance, training, and oversight to peers/junior staff engineers as needed.
• Performs peer-to-peer QA/QC of design plans, calculations, storm water management design and documents as a cursory review during formal QA/QC process.
• Effectively and respectfully communicates with project team members, client representatives, review agencies, and others as appropriate to project.

Required Capabilities:

Ability to sign and stamp documents as an official engineer of record.

Must display a consistent:

• Extensive knowledge of fundamental engineering practices.
• Executes, encourages, and upholds established JSD Standards in all aspects of project design and deliverables.
• Effective and professional communication skills on multiple platforms including: in-person, phone, email, Teams, and in meetings.
• Willingness and demonstration of mentoring and training of junior staff.
• High degree attention to detail, time and task management, and organization.
• Ability to multi-task on concurrent responsibilities in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work extended hours as required to meet client, project and/or business demands.

Key Milestones for Advancement:

• Proven ability to successfully lead, train, mentor, and delegate tasks to junior staff through a track record of several successful projects.
• Has actively sought to progress professional career through self-learning activities and interpersonal management training in communication, time management, and direct report delegation.
• Routinely prepare and QA/QC full site design including site plans, utility plans, grading and erosion control plans, and SWMP.
• Has obtained Professional Engineer License in Wisconsin.
• Consistently demonstrates advanced level of CAD Civil 3D drafting and program functionality skills relevant to project design.
• Utilizes advanced knowledge in preparing Stormwater management plans including report writing.
• Extends project management duties to include the drafting of proposals in coordination with a project Engineer II or Sr. and other disciplines.
• Demonstrates a commitment to using JSD Standards in design work and voicing improvement ideas to better the product.

Essential Functions of Position:

• 6-8 hours a day on the computer.
• Must be able to safely drive a vehicle for meetings and site visits, occasionally for long distances.
• Physically able to meet OSHA regulations for being on an active construction site for site visits to active projects.
• Must be able to safely visit sites not yet under construction (outdoor conditions/terrain that may include: farmer fields, marshlands, flatlands, wooded areas) without accompaniment or supervision.
• Standing, walking, bending, squatting multiple times a day for up to 8 hours.