Senior Civil Engineer - Power (Phoenix)
Burns & McDonnell · Phoenix, AZ · 2 days ago
EngineeringFull-time
About the role
The Senior Civil Engineer will lead civil design project teams to create world-class designs for various types of projects including power generation, process, corporate, healthcare, pipeline, airports, institutional, industrial, manufacturing, government, and military facilities.
Responsibilities
- Lead civil design of projects from the conceptual phase through design completion for project needs and requirements set forth by project managers.
- Prepare civil equipment: packaged equipment and construction specifications and data sheets, Request's for Qualifications (RFQ's), technical bid summaries, and purchase recommendations.
- Review civil vendor drawings; data interface with suppliers, clients, other engineering disciplines, detailers, designers.
- Participate in development of project schedule, scope, budget, staffing planning, and construction planning.
- Responsible for effective management of change orders.
- Applies expert knowledge of commonly used civil concepts, practices, codes, and procedures within the civil engineering services industry.
- Compiles studies and reports. Writes specifications.
- Applies knowledge and experience to complex projects, find non-standard design solutions.
- Quality review production drawings for a variety of projects and project-related data as required by project managers to verify design compliance with project, client, and industry standards, including constructability.
- Quality review the construction administration including coordination with field personnel to resolve design-related installation issues, calculations, field inspections, and testing of materials.
- Prepare and present technical reports for clients and industry publications.
- Build effective relationships with existing clients, customers, and contractors and develop new business opportunities.
- Responsible for ensuring customer satisfaction goals and expectations are met.
- Participate in sales and marketing efforts and identify, lead, and manage key pursuits.
- Lead the development of cost proposals and qualification statements to achieve stated targets and standards for financial performance.
- Prepare, present, and manage project budgets and cost estimates. Report project performance.
- Provide leadership, guidance, and instruction to the civil engineering practice. Mentor and guide less experienced engineers.
- Responsible for QA/QC process adherence.
- Responsible for effective communication with other engineering disciplines.
- Responsible for compliance with company and site safety policies.
- Complies with all policies and standards.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or related degree from an ABET-accredited program. May also have a bachelor’s degree in engineering technology from an ABET-accredited program and successful completion of the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam.
- A Master’s degree in Civil or Structural Engineering may substitute for 1 year of experience.
- Minimum of 7 years civil engineering experience required.
- EPC project experience strongly preferred.
- Expert knowledge in standard engineering techniques and procedures. Strong computer skills (e.g. AutoCAD, MicroStation, BIM (Revit), Civil 3D, PLS, PLS-CADD, RISA-3D, MathCADD), and/or hydraulic, hydrologic, pavement, civil analysis programs.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with leading the discipline design for large projects and delegating work tasks to team members. Ability to lead execution of work and resolve issues in a team environment.
- Demonstrated critical thinking skills, ability to work methodically and analytically in a quantitative problem-solving environment.
- Strong attention to detail, facilitation, team building, collaboration, organization, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to perform quality reviews for detailed engineering documents and specifications.
- Ability to travel.
- Professional Engineer (PE) License preferred.