Senior Designer - Civil Engineering

San Dieguito Engineering (SDE), established in 1974, is an award-winning civil engineering firm in Carlsbad, California. We provide professional services in land planning, land surveying, and civil engineering for private and public works sectors.

About the role

SDE is seeking an AutoCAD Civil 3D and MicroStation designer to work within our Engineering Department. Responsibilities include preparing drawings for engineering projects such as grading and improvement plans, tentative subdivision maps, utility and storm drain plan and profile, erosion control plans, traffic control plans, and exhibits for technical studies.

Additional experience in preparing survey maps, records of surveys, corner records, survey plats (including ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys), topographic surveys, right-of-way maps, easement dedication, vacation, and annexation plats is a plus. Familiarity with survey mapping may also involve preparing survey calculations for construction projects from civil engineering and architectural plans.

Responsibilities

• Analyze sketches, notes, and other input material to determine the best approach to complete a drawing set.
• Manage the production of drawing sets from creation, markup, and modification based on overall design.
• Collaborate with other CADD practitioners to prepare design drawings and details, and review completed work products to ensure quality.
• Prepare drawings for grading plans, cross-sections, alignments, profiles, three-dimensional surfaces, and earthwork volumes for land development and large civil design projects.
• Incorporate land or aerial surveying/mapping data and files into designs.
• Generate alignments, profiles, corridors, grading, annotation, and pipe networks, and modify styles as needed.

Requirements

• 5-8 years of full-time experience preparing CADD drawings (required).
• Equivalent combination of education, experience, and training that provides the prerequisite knowledge, skills, and abilities (required).
• Proficiency in AutoCAD Civil 3D (release 2022 or above) (required).
• Experience developing and working with grading plans, cross-sections, alignments, profiles, three-dimensional surfaces, and earthwork volumes for land development and large civil design projects (required).
• Experience using/incorporating land or aerial surveying/mapping data and files (required).
• Strong reasoning, mathematical, and geometrical skills (required).
• Understanding of Microsoft Office applications, including Windows, Outlook, Word, and Excel (required).
• Good organizational skills and ability to work as a team player.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Stormwater Management Design.
• Experience with ArcGIS and MicroStation.