Civil Designer

LDC, Inc.

Civil Designer

Job Description and Profile

Introduction

Over the past 21 years, LDC has been recognized by clients and the broader community for the quality of our work. LDC was founded with one core value in mind: “Service Above the Standard” and has held to these high expectations from the start. We have grown significantly, survived the recession through innovation, and most importantly, provided exceptional results for our clients. LDC is proud of its history that has made it a premier engineering consulting resource to the Pacific Northwest and beyond, and the strong foundation that history provides for our future.  We take pride in our commitment to high standards, quality deliverables, and comprehensive services which span from early feasibility through final construction.

Compensation and Benefits

LDC is committed to the personal and individual health and well-being of our employees. LDC offers competitive pay and a complete benefits package to all eligible employees and their dependents. Benefits include generous vacation, sick leave, eight paid holidays per year, competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families, life, disability, and family leave, bereavement leave, 401(k) with employer match, life insurance, professional development, and career advancement, bonus, and incentive compensation. At LDC you can expect to find an excellent collaborative culture that is welcoming to all diverse backgrounds.

LDC is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors.

Job Description and Profile

The civil designer in the organization oversees and provides project drawing production. They are responsible for ensuring quality and quantity standards and will have advanced working knowledge of AutoCAD and Civil 3D. The civil designer will assist in mentoring and training CAD technicians. The civil designer works within general policies and procedures and practices significant independent judgment to choose proper actions.

Reports to: Senior civil designer

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with project managers to identify production workload.

• Assists with managing project directory of all project files.

• Assists with training and mentoring of CAD and graphics personnel.

• Responsible for maintaining CAD standards.

• Works independently to create base maps, drawings, and designs for residential and commercial projects, including:

  • Drawing setup for preliminary and construction plan sets, including sheet layout, setup of both model space and paper space, and managing xrefs.
  • Incorporate redlines and design provided by project managers.
  • Create preliminary and construction plan sets, including:
• • • Preliminary plat plans
      • Horizontal control plans
      • Grading plans
      • Erosion control plans
      • Drainage plans
      • Sewer plans
      • Water plans
      • Details and notes
      • Proposed and existing road profiles and sections
      • Profile existing and proposed utilities
      • Final plats and topographic maps

• Produce drawing packages for submitt

• Setup and maintain styles and standards for Civil 3

• Manage detail libraries including creating, modifying, and cataloging current and new company det

• Jurisdictional research of standard plans, notes, and detai

• Responsible for quality assurance and quality control of graphics and CAD engineering plans.

• Assist with implementation of processes that increase productivity and efficiency.

Skills and Specifications

• Advanced working knowledge of AutoCAD and Civil3D.
• Ability to perform civil engineering design such as site layout, grading, erosion control, road profiles, utility plans, etc. with little input from project engineers.
• Possess excellent command of verbal and written communications including the ability to keep high quality notes.
• Knowledge of municipal and state design standards and codes.
• Possess the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• High-level proficiency in computer software program related activities.
• Self-motivated, hardworking, highly ethical, and dependable employee.
• Possess excellent rapport with management and co-workers, positive can-do attitude, excellent customer service, marketing, and people skills.
• Can handle a heavy workload in a fast-paced environment.
• Detail-oriented, organized, with good follow-through skills.
• Ability to work discreetly with sensitive and confidential information.

Education, Experience, Qualifications

• Associate’s degree or technical certification in a relevant field such as architectural, engineering, surveying or construction management, or experience considered sufficient to address the demands of the position.

• Civil 3D experience required.

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in CAD with increasing responsibility.

• Minimum 8+ years’ experience in civil engineering field.

• Minimum of 2 years’ supervision of staff and project production experience.

• Experience working with local municipalities including King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties a plus.

Physical Considerations

• Ability to operate standard office equipment, such as personal computer, printer, copy machine, telephone, and calculator.
• Ability to perform repetitive, finer hand and arm movements.
• Work activities involve combination of sitting for longer periods and intermittent standing/walking.

This position description is not intended as a complete list of job duties, responsibilities, and/or essential functions. The company retains and reserves any or all rights to change, modify, amend, add to or delete from any section of this document as it deems, in its judgment, to be proper.