Civil Designer - Earthwork Focused

About the role

DEPCOM Power, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is looking for a Civil Designer – Earthwork focused to join the growing team at our Katy, TX facility (greater Houston area). As a Civil Designer, you will play a pivotal role in building utility scale PV and BESS plants across the country. Join our team and use your technical expertise, creativity and collaboration to partner with DEPCOM's Civil Engineering team and cross-functional stakeholders, to develop designs that promote constructability and inform our bidding and estimating capability. As a Civil Designer, you will verify and refine layout area designs, handle detailed civil design components such as array grading, utilities, basins, drainage and roads while producing designs that are compliant with jurisdictional and owner requirements.

This position is not eligible for VISA Sponsorship.

Our Team

At DEPCOM, we are a field-first company that puts safety and environmental compliance first—always. We are committed to delivering superior, mutually beneficial customer experiences. Join us as we transform the future of utility-scale solar and energy storage and pursue our vision of becoming the industry's most competitive EPC and services provider. At Koch Industries, our Principle Based Management philosophy is at the center of how we do business, and as an employee, you will begin your journey of understanding and applying the way we do business in your everyday work.

What You Will Do

• Prepare detailed civil designs for utility-scale or large land development solar projects, including conceptual, preliminary, and final designs
• Apply industry design standards for site grading, road layout, mass grading, earthwork calculations, stormwater management, and erosion/sediment control
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams (civil, structural, electrical) to integrate site infrastructure with solar system design
• Coordinate with engineers to ensure that all technical design requirements are represented in the drawing package
• Manage day-to-day workflow to ensure balance between multiple projects in development at the same time
• Use specialized software such as AutoCAD Civil 3D for large-scale site modeling, grading, and earthwork takeoffs
• Resolve design challenges creatively and efficiently, ensuring solutions meet technical and client requirements
• Extract points, surfaces, and other drawing metadata for field use during construction of project
• Analyze contours and topographic survey data to produce preliminary grading surfaces
• Review reliance documents to assist in development of base files for drawing packages

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• AutoCAD drafting experience to include sheet-set manager, blocks and x-references
• Civil 3D civil design experience
• Understanding of general drafting standards

What Will Put You Ahead (Preferred Qualifications)

• PV or BESS Civil Design experience
• 2D or 3D Design experience in non-Autodesk Software
• Experience Adobe Acrobat or BlueBeam Revu
• Knowledge of LISP, .NET, Python or Dynamo programming

Who We Are

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company. As a Koch Engineered Solutions company, DEPCOM Power is a leading energy solutions partner for the utility solar and broader energy industries, providing project development support, engineering, procurement and construction, energy storage, repowering and operations and maintenance services. Our highly skilled team of conventional and renewable power industry experts work to deliver the lowest cost of energy and the highest rate of return.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter. Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.