Civil Engineer II

Progressive Companies•Detroit, MI

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Civil Engineer II, you will carry the technical design on several active projects at once, and you will be the person the team comes to when a site problem needs an answer. You will produce PE-stamped drawings and specifications, take the design through code and agency review, and run construction administration on your own projects with a senior engineer available but not looking over your shoulder. This is the level where a civil engineer stops executing someone else's plan and starts writing it. You will build the work plans and schedules yourself. You will coordinate the other disciplines and the outside consultants, and you will mentor the engineers coming up behind you. The step from here is Civil Engineer III, and past that, project and studio leadership. Progressive is employee owned (ESOP), so the work you deliver builds your own stake in the firm.

Requirements

PE-stamped drawings and specifications
Revit and AutoCAD proficiency
Experience with code and agency review
Construction administration experience
Ability to build work plans and schedules
Coordination of disciplines and outside consultants
Mentoring junior engineers
Design analysis, calculations, contract documents, and technical specifications
Stormwater systems, utility layouts, grading, retaining structures, and foundations
Soil mechanics evaluations
Handle RFIs, shop drawing submittals, clarifications, and field inspections
Oversee material testing
Review drawings and calculations
Check specifications and junior staff work

Nice To Haves

Senior engineer available for guidance
Performance Based Design standards knowledge

Responsibilities

Stamp your own designs. Produce the design analysis, calculations, contract documents, and technical specifications in Revit and AutoCAD, and carry them to a PE-stamped set that meets the firm's Performance Based Design standards.
Build work plans and schedules that account for how long permitting actually takes. Set the scope, sequence, and dates for your projects with the reviewing agencies' timeframes built in, and raise scope changes while there is still schedule left to absorb them.
Own the code and regulatory review on medium to high complexity projects. Lead the zoning, environmental, and safety code review, then take the design through client and governing agency review yourself, resolving comments rather than routing them upward.
Design the site systems on the harder infrastructure projects. Handle stormwater systems, utility layouts, grading, retaining structures, and foundations, along with the soil mechanics evaluations behind them, and make the calls on the structural components of the site.
Run construction administration on your projects with minimal supervision. Handle RFIs, shop drawing submittmits, clarifications, and field inspections, oversee material testing and read the results against the specifications, and get answers back to the contractor before the field is waiting on you.
Coordinate the disciplines and outside consultants, then verify what comes back. Organize and lead the project team meetings, keep everyone current on scope and schedule changes, and review the work that comes back instead of assuming it is right.
Catch documentation inconsistencies before anything leaves the office. Review your own drawings and calculations, check the specifications and junior staff work against them, and resolve the conflicts you find with the team rather than passing them to the client or the contractor.
Bring the junior engineers up. Give the engineers and designers behind you technical guidance on their assignments, sit with them on work they have not done before, and take what you learn into the Lessons Learned sessions so it does not stay with one project team.