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Municipal Engineer

ISG Inc.
Des Moines, IA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/26/2025

Description

Founded in 1973, ISG is a multi-disciplinary, full-service architecture and engineering firm, supporting clients throughout the nation. As a 100% employee-owned firm with 14 offices across five states, we thrive on collaboration, innovation, and deliver exceptional results for clients nationwide. To support our continued growth, we are seeking a talented and dedicated Civil Engineer to join our dynamic Public Works team. If you’re passionate about designing, building, and maintaining critical infrastructure, this opportunity is for you!


As part of our multi-disciplinary team you will work with civil, transportation, mechanical, electrical, structural, and water-wastewater engineers. Your team will include surveyors, architects, landscape architects, environmental scientists, visualization, applied technology, and construction specialists. Together we will live our ISG mission to Make a Difference and make tomorrow better than today for our clients, communities, and each other.


This position offers variety and connection, with potential travel across ISG’s footprint. When travel is necessary, our team occasionally utilizes ISG’s private aircraft for efficiency and flexibility.


View our Portfolio here.


ESSENTIAL DUTIES

  • Lead technical municipal engineering project activities focused on water systems, wastewater systems, utilities and roadway design
  • Serve as primary client contact
  • Lead, coordinate, and build teamwork among other members in all necessary disciplines
  • Deliver projects within budget, schedule, and contractual commitments
  • Work closely with relevant permitting agencies
  • Develop technical reports, feasibility studies, and engineering designs
  • Lead proposals and development of scope, schedule, and budget, with support from our dedicated marketing team
  • Establish objectives and provide performance feedback for project team members
  • Plan, coordinate and prepare designs, prepare estimates and specifications for various types of municipal engineering projects
  • Conduct site visits before and during design projects and assesses existing conditions, helping identify design needs and potential constraints
  • Works with survey, right-of-way, outside consultants and construction observation staff as needed to support project design and construction.
  • Opportunity for Business Development/fostering client development/business growth
  • Active in relevant professional organizations such as APWA, AWWA, etc

Our civil engineers are involved in nearly every project we touch. Our portfolio highlights the wide variety of work that we are doing. At ISG we have the reach to provide a variety of project types to expand your skills and the depth to focus on your passion and build your expertise.


QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related field
  • Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred
  • Preferred 2 years of experience with direct client contact and project management
  • Preferred 5 years of experience working with technical teams, including leadership experience, and conducting hands-on engineering including design, reports, and studies for municipal engineering projects
  • Proficiency in design software (AutoCAD, MicroStation, Civil 3D, etc.)
  • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
  • Strong communication, report writing, organization, analytical and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to present technical information clearly to colleagues, contractors, and the public
  • We are seeking a candidate who is humble, demonstrating a genuine interest in team success over individual achievements; hungry, exhibiting a strong work ethic and passion for continuous improvement; and smart, possessing strong interpersonal skills and an understanding of team dynamics

ISG Employee Owner Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision
  • Paid time off, pro-rated amount available on your start date
  • Paid holidays and paid volunteer time
  • Paid parental leave
  • Bi-annual profit sharing
  • Employee Ownership Stock Plan (ESOP)
  • Traditional Roth 401K retirement plan
  • Life insurance
  • HSA and FSA options
  • Bereavement leave
  • Supplemental voluntary benefits
  • Short term and long-term disability
  • Parking reimbursement, varies on office location
  • Cell phone plan reimbursement
  • Mileage reimbursement for ISG-approved travel

ABOUT ISG


We are 100% owned by our employees! ISG's Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) allows for broader ownership, the ability to be directly connected to performance, and our culture of accountability and opportunism is amplified. Put simply, everyone works hard = everyone benefits, not just an elite group.


We are focused on strengths, using those talents to guide personal development and team collaboration. We are involved in our communities and lead through empowerment. Firm growth is a direct reflection of the dedication, ingenuity, and hard work each ISG owner brings to the office and field every day.


ISG's growth and sustainability are based on the unwavering belief that we need to grow for the betterment of our people and firm. We are entrepreneurial. We believe in having the right people onboard and being disciplined during good times and when faced with new challenges. And most importantly, we foster growth through positive mentorship and progressive ideas that lead to strategic, contextual based decisions. We believe that this unwavering commitment to our culture, clients, and dynamic qualities translates to better services for our partners, and that it will continue to guide ISG's future.


Learn more about ISG at http://www.isginc.com


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