Associate Civil Engineer

Join the City of Round Rock as an Associate Civil Engineer and apply your engineering education in a dynamic municipal environment. This role offers the opportunity to grow your technical skills, engage in diverse engineering functions, and directly impact community development.

Responsibilities

• Respond to citizen, business, and agency inquiries related to engineering issues by gathering data, conducting research, and recommending solutions.
• Review development projects, including site plans, plats, utilities, drainage studies, Traffic Impact Analyses (TIAs), flood studies, and wastewater capacity studies, with guidance from senior staff.
• Meet with engineers, developers, contractors, and internal staff to discuss code interpretation, project challenges, timelines, and engineering standards.
• Provide technical comments and stipulations to ensure compliance with City design requirements, ordinances, and policies.
• Assist in amending and implementing city ordinances, manuals, guidelines, and policies related to engineering and development.
• Maintain and update reference materials, checklists, forms, reports, development packets, and technical documents.
• Support boards and commissions by providing administrative and technical assistance.
• Convey review comments between internal departments and external stakeholders to ensure consistent project communication.

This position offers exposure to a broad range of engineering topics, including land development, transportation, drainage, utilities, permit review, and capital project support.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university in Civil Engineering.
• No experience required; one year of work experience preferred.
• Engineering-in-Training (EIT) certification in Texas required within two (2) years of hire.
• Valid Texas Driver License (or ability to obtain before employment).

About the Role

You’re curious, motivated, and ready to learn. You enjoy problem-solving, tackling technical questions, and communicating clearly with colleagues and external contacts. You’re organized, detail-oriented, and excited to see how engineering decisions shape real-world outcomes in neighborhoods, commercial developments, and public infrastructure.

You’ll thrive here if you:

• Enjoy working with people as much as solving engineering problems.
• Communicate clearly in writing, visually, and verbally.
• Want mentorship and opportunities to expand your engineering skill set.
• Work well on a team and value collaboration.
• Like balancing office work, meetings, research, and technical analysis.

Municipal experience is not required; we support motivated engineers starting or changing their career path.

Benefits

• Mentorship & learning: Work closely with senior engineers and staff invested in developing emerging talent.
• Variety of work: Engage in plan review, project coordination, public meetings, engineering studies, developer interaction, and more.
• Community impact: Your work helps shape how Round Rock grows, develops, and improves.
• Career pathway: Municipal engineering provides stable, long-term opportunities for advancement in design, development, capital projects, transportation, utilities, and management.

Pay

Posted range is the starting salary. Pay rate offered is based on experience.