Design Engineer - Civil

Our growing Spokane office is seeking an energetic and enthusiastic, full-time design engineer to provide review and design assistance to our engineers and project managers with civil engineering and land development projects. Our civil engineering work is varied, serving clients in both the public and private sectors. We tailor our work to the individual needs of our clients, their projects, and their communities; it often entails inquiry and exploration to identify optimal strategies, recommendations, and outcomes. We welcome new opportunities and challenges. If this sounds like the right place for you, we welcome you to apply! 

Who we are

Our mission is to serve our clients, communities, and each other with creativity, knowledge, insight, and perspective. As a 100% employee-owned company, at SCJ we value trust, compassion, freedom, stewardship, and integrity. We routinely and easily cross job description lines in order to be part of getting something done. Our fast-paced, fun, and flexible atmosphere offers the opportunity for meaningful work that challenges you, makes a difference, and improves communities. We specialize in civil engineering, transportation planning & design, environmental & urban planning, landscape architecture & design, and public outreach. With great projects and a fun-loving team, our firm has been named as both one of the nation’s fastest-growing and best places to work multiple times.

What you’ll be doing

• Interesting and challenging work that builds communities. You can expect to be involved in grading, stormwater, water, sewer, and other areas of civil engineering for both private and public projects.  Through these projects, you will be impacting the future of the communities.
• Managing drawings and providing calculations.You’ll prepare and revise drawings from rough sketches, mark-ups, or general engineering and design information and put the finishing touches on them with labeling, layering, and sheet layout.
• Site visits and observations.We want you to get out of the office on occasion to walk and photograph the sites you’re designing and observe the construction of what you designed.
• Supporting project managers and senior engineers. You’ll be assisting in meeting project schedules and achieving company quality goals.
• Ensuring project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.

What you bring

• A passion for serving others, communication, creativity, and a commitment to high-quality work.
• A Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or equivalent.
• An EIT certification or ability to obtain within 6 months.
• Generally, 0 to 4 years or more of progressively responsible drafting and civil engineering design experience.
• AutoCAD and Civil 3D experience.

 What we bring 

• An unbeatable culture: In recent employee satisfaction surveys, "the people at work" and "culture" are consistently identified as the top two things people love about working at SCJ. We are proud of our autonomous and collaborative work environment, exceptional operational support, creative and supportive co-workers, and compassionate leadership team. Plus, we do lots of other fun stuff, including mugshots, an annual gala, fitness challenges, summer campouts…and a variety of other creative ways we have found to come together and hang out.
• Quality projects:We pursue work that improves communities, challenges us, and makes a difference.
• Community involvementopportunities anda charitable matching program.
• Paid time off: vacation/sick time, holidays, personal floating holiday
• Retirement benefits: 401(k) plan & employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).
• Health, disability, and other insurance plan options to fit your needs. Including HSA & FSA.

This is not a remote position.