What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Engineer (Grading/Drainage/Pipeline Design) position at WILSON ENGINEERS, LLC?
Department: Civil/Municipal
Location: Tempe, AZ
Wilson Engineers is an Arizona-based firm with a staff of more than 200 personnel specializing in water and wastewater engineering and construction management. We are dedicated to delivering ethical, reliable, high quality services to our clients based on innovation, while sustaining a challenging and rewarding work environment for our greatest assets, our employees.
We are seeking an experienced Project Engineer (Grading/Drainage/Pipeline Design) to join our team. This position requires 40 hours per week in our Tempe office (This job is not remote nor hybrid).
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Create Grading and Paving designs utilizing Civil 3D feature lines and corridors to create highly accurate finish ground surfaces.
- Create Sewer and Water pipeline designs utilizing gravity and pressure pipe networks within Civil 3D.
- Create/label exaggerated paving, sewer, storm drain and water profiles in Civil 3D
- Understand advanced survey principles, able to import survey field points into Civil 3D, capable of generating easement/property boundary linework from legal descriptions, create/edit existing ground surfaces in Civil 3D, prepare legal description/graphic based on CAD linework and convert grid coordinates to ground coordinates based on scale factors.
- Process LIDAR point cloud data in Recap and utilize to create existing ground surfaces in Civil 3D
- Ability to take technical direction from Project Managers or Principals and complete design tasks and elements.
- Ability to coordinate with multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
- Must possess a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.
- Requires a minimum of four (4) to eight (8) years of Grading and Drainage/Utility Pipeline design experience including construction-related engineering services.
- A current Arizona Professional Engineer (P.E.) license preferred
- Experience working in Grading and Drainage and Utility Pipeline fields. Relevant experience shall include site vertical grading design, drainage/sewer/water report preparation and specification writing.
- Construction-related engineering services experience with the ability to review Shop Drawings, Specification, RFIs, issuing Engineers Directives etc.
- Computer experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook
- Proficiency with Civil 3D, DDMSW (Rational Method and HEC-1 Models), CulvertMaster, FlowMaster, HY-8, Recap (LIDAR data) StormCAD, SewerCAD, SWMM, and WaterCAD software.
- GIS experience a plus.
The comprehensive benefits plan offered by Wilson Engineers exceeds industry standards, and is aimed at meeting each employee's personal and professional expectations. Benefits include personal time off, paid holidays, medical, dental and vision coverage; plus a flexible spending plan and short and long-term disability. Wilson Engineers also helps in securing your financial future by offering 401k plans with employer matching.
Benefits plan offered to our full-time employees:
- Medical Plan
- Vision Plan
- Dental Plan
- Group Life Insurance
- Short Term Disability
- Long Term Disability
- Voluntary Term Life Insurance
- Liberty Mutual Insurance
- Personal Time Off (PTO)
- Paid Holidays
- 401(K) Retirement Plan
- Section 125 Flexible Benefits Plan
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee Referral Bonus
