Sr. Civil CAD Designer

  Sr. Civil CAD Designer At Salas O’Brien we tell our clients that we’re engineered for impact. This passion for making a difference applies just as much to our team as it does to our projects. That’s why we’re committed to living our values every day: inspiring, achieving, and connecting as shared owners of our success with a focus on a sustainable future.

Building for the long-term means that all our team members can expect to work on amazing projects with a people-first approach to problem solving. It also means that each member of our team has truly limitless potential to build a unique, meaningful, and high-impact career—and they’ll receive great total rewards along the way. Job Summary: Job duties will include performing civil design responsibilities and technical drafting activities in support of project engineers throughout the engineering design process.

In a civil design capacity, the candidate will execute limited engineering designs by applying established standards, specifications, codes, and project requirements to develop technically sound and compliant design deliverables for engineer review and finalization.  Work will primarily focus on AutoCAD and Civil3D model and drawing development of construction drawing packages based on various datasets and engineer input, completing engineer markups during the design process, preparing design concepts, completing as-built drawings and the creation or modification of details.

Responsibilities may also include performing in-field walk-downs of project sites, verifying existing conditions of sites and facilities prior to new design efforts, and compiling data. Work will primarily be conducted virtually, but local candidates are encouraged to work from the office occasionally (20%). Travel to the Space Coast Area of Florida (Brevard County) and other travel locations will be limited.

General Duties: Work tasks will be extremely varied and require flexibility and versatility in the civil drafting/design field. Examples of the type of work to be performed include: Civil drafting / design support for new construction, renovation, and modification projects including development of civil construction drawing elements including but not limited to: Site plans – existing condition, demolition, and modification site plans showing scope of work in planimetric view.

Importing of survey drawings in applicable coordinate system. Utility plan and profile drawings – alignment-based plan and profile drawings showing the primary utility and crossing / conflicting utilities and ground surface data in plan and profile view. Includes pressure and gravity systems for various liquid and gas systems. Paving, grading, and drainage plans – site plans indicating extents and types of pavement, existing and modified topography and grading, and drainage plans indicating flow paths and drainage system elements (structures, ponds, culverts, etc.) Geometry plans – site plans indicating measurement and survey point based geometric data connected to state plane coordinate systems.

Various details, schedules, and diagrams to illustrate typical and project specific elements for construction. Produce record drawing documentation based on contractor redlines, as-built survey conditions, and engineer input. Civil drafting/design support for new construction, renovations and modification efforts. Skills: Effective interpersonal skills and strong communication (written and verbal).

Confident and ambitious problem solver. Creative and innovative – Self-directed initiative Dependable Understands the culture of business Detail-oriented Qualifications: AS. in Drafting and Design (or equivalent experience) Minimum of 8 years of drafting/design experience working with Civil3D with specific experience in application for development of civil construction drawing packages. Refer to prior sections for detailed experience and application requireme