Senior Civil Engineer
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Location: Lombard, IL 60148
Description:
Civil Engineering professional with 7+ years of accomplishment in designing Civil projects. This individual interfaces with client engineering representatives and other Valdes' discipline engineers.
Responsibilities
People Skills
Organizational Skills
Qualifications
Responsibilities
- Display an advanced knowledge within the Civil Engineering discipline
- Provide generally accepted practices with project management, design and quality control procedures.
- Engage in design production to ensure complete, quality, and timely deliverables.
- Verify field conditions, constructability of designs, and assist in resolving problems during field construction
- May be required to participate in short, or long term, field assignments
- Participate in the pursuit of new clients and project opportunities including client interactions, fee estimating and proposal writing.
- Provide mentorship to less experienced engineers
People Skills
- Ability to establish and maintain the highest standard of professional conduct and effective work relationships with clients, subordinates and co-workers
- Personable and able to work easily with others at all levels
- Ability to effectively manage and resolve conflicts or work issues in a professional manner
- Provide leadership to monitor, enforce, and improve quality of work
- Demonstrate excellent intercultural sensitivity and listening skills
- Extroverted personality, ability to supervise and lead staff offering coaching and oversight resulting in quality work product
- Ability to communicate complicated issues in a simple and concise manner
Organizational Skills
- Well organized and able to prioritize work
- Ability to set and track goals
- Ability to multi-task and handle multiple project priorities simultaneously
- Able to commit to and meet project deadlines, and driven to provide outstanding service to both external and internal customers
- Takes ownership of work and follows thru to completion
- Must keep work area neat, clean and organized
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Civil Engineering
- 8+ years of experience working as a Civil Engineer
- Must hold Professional registrations (PE)
- Advanced knowledge of Civil Engineering
- Strong Microsoft Office software skills
- Strong AutoCAD / Civil 3D software skills. MicroStation experience is a plus.
- Possess report writing skills to create civil evaluation and stormwater reports.
- Intermediate understanding of other discipline workflow and how all departments work together to complete projects
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Eligibility to work in the US without requiring sponsorship now or in the future