Civil Design Engineer

Take Your Design Career to the Next Level

Are you ready to be challenged, make a difference, and experience professional growth in your career? Kleinfelder’s Design team is looking for you! From bridge and structural engineering to civil, electrical, mechanical, and process engineering, Kleinfelder’s collaborative Design Services create synergy across multiple disciplines.

Step into Your New Role

Kleinfelder is currently seeking a Civil Designer/Engineer for our Las Vegas office. The ideal candidate will participate in and contribute to a diverse range of engineering services in our team-oriented environment providing public and private clients with professional engineering services for roadway improvements, site development, water and wastewater conveyance systems and erosion mitigation and stormwater management.  The work is often fast paced with multiple ongoing projects and deliverables, including a wide variety of tasks with competing priorities.  The ideal candidate will possess strong oral and written communication skills, excellent inter-personal skills for working in multiple group settings, and a strong desire to learn, grow, and succeed.

The key responsibilities of a Civil Designer/Engineer include:

• Utilizing Civil 3D Software: Creating construction plans, alignments, profiles, and grading features to produce engineered designs. A strong capability in grading design for site development, roadway corridors, and roadway modeling is required.
• Design and Planning: Designing site layouts, earthwork, grading, storm drain, sanitary sewer, water, storm water management, pipe network modeling, and infrastructure for both private and public-sector clients.
• Contract Documents: Prepare agency design submission packages for agency reviews and approvals.  Experience in preparing construction specifications in Blue Book and/or CSI format a plus.
• Project Coordination: Leading project meetings with internal staff, clients, and agencies to ensure projects meet deadlines, budgets, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensuring Compliance: Following client and internal design standards and procedures to deliver high-quality, accurate designs. Must be able to perform independent Quality Assessment/Quality Control reviews of other designer’s work as needed.

The successful candidate will possess the following skills:

• Problem Solving and Innovation: Applying creative and innovative solutions to meet the engineering needs of each project.
• Collaborating with Project Teams: Working alongside civil engineers, project leaders, and other team members to develop and refine engineering designs.
• Career Growth: Developing expertise in the site/civil design field while contributing to the firm’s ongoing growth and success in the market.

Requirements:

• Strong Civil 3D skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.
• 6-10 years of related experience.
• Engineer-in-Training (EIT) license required.
• Professional Engineering (PE) license or ability to obtain Nevada PE within 12 months required.
• Local experience preferred.

Move Forward with Kleinfelder

Kleinfelder has been connecting great people to the best work since 1961. We are engineers, scientists, and construction professionals providing solutions that improve our clients’ transportation, water, energy, and other private infrastructure. As a responsive, cross-disciplinary team of bright, curious, and innovative problem-solvers, we are dedicated to doing the right thing, every day, on every project from over 85 offices in the US, Canada, and Australia. Connecting great people to the best work is our purpose – together, we deliver.

Progress with an Employer that Values You

Kleinfelder is an inclusive organization free from discrimination. We are a stronger organization when we are a diverse workforce and believe that through diversity, equity, and inclusion comes creativity, innovation, and unity. We are proud to offer the following:

Benefits: Kleinfelder offers an excellent compensation and benefits package, including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid holidays.

Career Development: We are committed to investing in the professional development of our staff, offering each employee every opportunity to grow, develop, and take control of their career paths. We support these efforts through reimbursements for continuing education as well as many of the expenses associated with trainings and certifications, and opportunities for career development through our internal Mentoring Program.

Equal Opportunity: Kleinfelder is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans. (Compliant with the new VEVRAA and Section 503 rules)

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES 

Please note that Kleinfelder does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, Kleinfelder will not consider or agree to payment for any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, Kleinfelder explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resume, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Kleinfelder.