Utilities Engineer

Neurodiversity in the Workplace is partnered with a Fortune 500 construction company that is hiring paid interns for Summer 2025. This opportunity is available through the company's neurodiversity hiring program, which replaces the traditional interview with a skill demonstration to address the hiring barriers often experienced by autistic, ADHD, dyslexic, and other neurodivergent candidates.

Position Overview

This opportunity is for a Utility Engineer to join our growing group. This role is located in Lone Tree, CO, with flexible work opportunities. This opportunity will support project pursuits and awarded projects by coordinating and managing Utility Design and Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) on various large projects. The candidate should possess enough experience to be considered a subject matter expert in the field of utility design and be experienced with infrastructure utility coordination and construction techniques. The utilities team is integral to the pursuit, engineering, and construction project team to ensure the best service possible to each client.

Our work includes but is not limited to water, sewer, gas, petroleum, electric transmission & distribution (aerial and underground), telecom fiber & copper (aerial and underground), and interfaces regularly with Civil Engineering disciplines such as roadway, drainage, and structures.

District Overview

The Design Build Management team facilitates all stages of design-build projects to manage multi-disciplined design teams to improve schedules, control costs, and minimize risk. Our construction-driven engineers analyze root causes and resolve design issues before they impact schedule and budget. Clients benefit from the proven processes and tools to minimize project risk, particularly on large design-build projects. We are an in-house resource that supports projects throughout the company. Our staff shares experiences, innovative concepts, and design best practices for all projects that we support.

We will train you, develop your skills, and allow you to take on projects that impact millions across North America. This position offers top-notch health benefits, a wealth-building 401k plan, and unbeatable growth opportunities.

Location

This position is based out of our Lone Tree, CO offices.

Responsibilities

• Perform utility relocation conflict analysis on large infrastructure projects.
• Participate in project or pursuit meetings, including those onsite when necessary.
• Prepare Issued for Estimating (IFE) deliverable packets including conceptual relocation plans and specification packages. Participate in the handoff meeting of IFE documents to the estimating team.
• Coordination and oversight of consultant design and SUE resources
• Review & comment on Utility Owner design submittals.
• Facilitate constructability reviews with the Utility Coordinator counterpart and ensure designs are compatible with construction sequence and methods.
• Provide input on Design Fee estimates for pursuits and coordinate with cost estimating group.
• Provide input on design and pre-construction schedule.
• Perform Technical Risk Assessment for pursuits being evaluated; involves reading and interpreting contract documents, identifying risks, and recommending mitigation techniques.
• Create & manage file structures for design working files, deliverables, and reference documents
• Understand and confirm all work is performed according to company standards.
• Participate in required steps of the Design Quality Management Plan, including but not limited to Initial Design Review (IDR), checking, backchecking, and verifying.
• Interface with client and Utility Owner representatives

Qualifications

• 0-2 Years in Utilities design; infrastructure Engineering and/or design-build experience preferred.
• Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering or related degree field.
• Experienced use of Microstation, Projectwise, OpenRoads, and AutoCAD.
• Experienced with ASCE standard governance of Subsurface Utility Engineering.
• Experiences with variety of design standards for water, sewer, gas, petroleum, electric, communications.
• Experience with different construction techniques and constructability of Utilities and associated Civil aspects in Design-Build projects
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, with individuals at all levels of the organization
• Strong inter-personal skills and an ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team environment
• Ability to organize and handle multiple project assignments.
• Ability to travel to assignments based on business needs.
• Ability to freely access all points of a construction site in wide-ranging environments.