What are the responsibilities and job description for the Civil Designer/Senior Civil Designer position at Timmons Group?
Job Description
Timmons Group is always accepting applications from experienced Civil Designer/Senior Civil Designer candidates to join our team for future opportunities.
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:
- Ideal candidates will have at least five years of civil design experience
- Intermediate to advanced ability to use AutoCAD Civil 3D or Microstation 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
