Job Description and Profile
The civil designer in the organization oversees and provides project drawing production. They are responsible for ensuring quality and quantity standards and will have advanced working knowledge of AutoCAD and Civil 3D. The civil designer will assist in mentoring and training CAD technicians. The civil designer works within general policies and procedures and practices significant independent judgment to choose proper actions.
Reports to: Senior civil designer
Duties and Responsibilities
- Work with project managers to identify production workload.
- Assists with managing project directory of all project files.
- Assists with training and mentoring of CAD and graphics personnel.
- Responsible for maintaining CAD standards.
- Works independently to create base maps drawings and designs for residential and commercial projects including:
- Drawing setup for preliminary and construction plan sets including sheet layout setup of both model space and paper space and managing xrefs.
- Incorporate redlines and design provided by project managers.
- Create preliminary and construction plan sets including:
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- Preliminary plat plans
- Horizontal control plans
- Grading plans
- Erosion control plans
- Drainage plans
- Sewer plans
- Water plans
- Details and notes
- Proposed and existing road profiles and sections
- Profile existing and proposed utilities
- Final plats and topographic maps
- Produce drawing packages for submitt
- Setup and maintain styles and standards for Civil 3
- Manage detail libraries including creating modifying and cataloging current and new company det
- Jurisdictional research of standard plans notes and detai
- Responsible for quality assurance and quality control of graphics and CAD engineering plans.
- Assist with implementation of processes that increase productivity and efficiency.
Skills and Specifications
- Advanced working knowledge of AutoCAD and Civil3D.
- Ability to perform civil engineering design such as site layout grading erosion control road profiles utility plans etc. with little input from project engineers.
- Possess excellent command of verbal and written communications including the ability to keep high quality notes.
- Knowledge of municipal and state design standards and codes.
- Possess the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Highlevel proficiency in computer software program related activities.
- Selfmotivated hardworking highly ethical and dependable employee.
- Possess excellent rapport with management and coworkers positive cando attitude excellent customer service marketing and people skills.
- Can handle a heavy workload in a fastpaced environment.
- Detailoriented organized with good followthrough skills.
- Ability to work discreetly with sensitive and confidential information.
Education Experience Qualifications
- Associates degree or technical certification in a relevant field such as architectural engineering surveying or construction management or experience considered sufficient to address the demands of the position.
- Civil 3D experience required.
- Minimum 10 years experience in CAD with increasing responsibility.
- Minimum 8 years experience in civil engineering field.
- Minimum of 2 years supervision of staff and project production experience.
- Experience working with local municipalities including King Snohomish and Pierce counties a plus.
Physical Considerations
- Ability to operate standard office equipment such as personal computer printer copy machine telephone and calculator.
- Ability to perform repetitive finer hand and arm movements.
- Work activities involve combination of sitting for longer periods and intermittent standing/walking.