AECOM-posted 4 months ago
$80,000 - $130,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Murray, UT
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

AECOM's Water Business Line is seeking a creative and highly motivated Senior CAD Designer specializing in grading and earthwork design for immediate employment. This is a technical role working with engineers and project managers on a variety of projects within the Dams, Mining and Water Resources markets. Candidates can expect a diverse set of project challenges focused on heavy civil grading for large mines, dams, access roads and stormwater management. The ideal candidate will have a passion for interdisciplinary collaboration in leading civil design, producing custom solutions, mentoring mid-level and junior staff, and developing calculations, drawings, reports, and specifications for the civil design work on exciting and complex projects.

  • Extensive experience with Autodesk Civil 3D through release 2025, with an emphasis on complex and advanced surface modeling capabilities.
  • Ability to take general direction and simple sketches from engineers to then develop design criteria and progress through all stages of design.
  • Grading design and surface modeling for earth-fill, rockfill, conventional concrete and RCC embankments, quarries, spillways, outlet works, foundations and drains.
  • Grading design, surface modeling and site development for tailing storage facilities, embankments, seepage ponds, utility corridors, waste rock piles, buttresses, ring dikes, underdrains, closure plans, and instrumentation and monitoring.
  • Site development, access roads, drainage channels, jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional dams, slope stabilization, retaining walls, detention ponds, land development, surface drainage, and stream restoration.
  • Prepare detailed calculation packages for earthwork quantities, reservoir storage capacity, and tailing storage.
  • Ability to process a variety of data sources to build existing base surfaces from LiDAR, survey points, break lines, DEMs, and contours.
  • Detailed understanding of coordinate systems and the ability to transform data from one system to another.
  • Data management of survey and client data through the project life cycle.
  • Works under limited supervision.
  • Performs both routine and non-routine, complex design assignments that require judgment in resolving issues or making recommendations.
  • Responsible for providing leadership and direction of specific CAD technologies assigned to the project team.
  • Leads the performance of investigations, studies, and the development of designs for a variety of large and complex infrastructure projects with a focus on Dams.
  • Prepare and effectively present technical and comprehensive reports verbally and in writing.
  • BA/BS and 6 years of relevant experience and or equivalency of experience and or education.
  • Required Software experience: Civil3D.
  • 15 years of relevant CAD experience in advanced grading.
  • Strong technical progression within civil engineering and design.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of industry standards.
  • Experience with Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC), ProjectWise, Microsoft Excel, Google Earth, NavisWorks, ESRI GIS, Blue Marble Global Mapper or other GIS application.
  • Experience with other software a plus: InfraWorks, Vehicle Tracking, ReCap, Bluebeam, MicroStation, OpenRoads, OpenGround, GeoPak, Revit.
  • Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits.
  • Paid time off, leaves of absences.
  • Voluntary benefits, perks, flexible work options.
  • Well-being resources, employee assistance program.
  • Business travel insurance, service recognition awards.
  • Retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase plan.
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