Civil Designer Job Description
Civil Designer Duties & Responsibilities
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Civil Designer Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Civil Designer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: EIT, EI, HAZWOPER, CAD, MEP, E.I.T, CROR, MAX
Education for Civil Designer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the civil designer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Associate and Bachelor's Degree in Design, Engineering, Technical, Civil Engineering, Drafting, Associates, Drafting Technology, Technology, Education, Engineering Technology
Skills for Civil Designer
Desired skills for civil designer include:
Desired experience for civil designer includes:
Civil Designer Examples
Civil Designer Job Description
- Understanding of subdivision design standards and processes (ideally within the Cairns market)
- This position is responsible for providing a full range of drawing and model production work including problem analysis, design layout and calculations on non-routine assignments of substantial variety and complexity
- Exercise independent design decisions
- Stays current in CAD techniques, drawing principles, applicable state of the art engineering design software applications
- Produce civil engineering 3D models and 2D construction drawings using AutoCad and/or Microstation software for industrial civil infrastructure such as access roads, road crossings, grading, site plan/profiles, drainage, civil utilities, cross-sections, details, foundations, produce material quantity take offs
- Manipulate and manage electronic survey data received from others for the purposes of design and drafting
- Makes various calculations and frequently uses charts and tables to accommodate the design process
- Prepares Bills of Material relative to design documentation
- Plan and prepare preliminary layouts and detailed design drawings from engineering notes, sketches, and/or other drawings, ensuring they meet company and industry standards and codes
- Work closely with Engineers, Designers and other Drafters to ensure coordination design effort is maintained
- Provision of technical expertise to suit client needs – including information modelling
- Contributes to a complete and integrated set of digital project content including documents by working co-operatively with team members
- Proficiency in AutoCAD essential
- Recognised Civil Engineer qualification (eg
- Advanced technical knowledge of drafting techniques and training in CAD and spreadsheet software
- AutoCAD Civil 3D, Bentley Microstation, and/or InRoads experience
Civil Designer Job Description
- Land Development Design experience is required
- Civil engineering design for land subdivision, transport infrastructure and water and sewer infrastructure projects using 12D, PC Drain and AutoCAD
- Demonstrated design experience (8+ years) within a consulting environment
- Advanced knowledge and experience using 12D design software
- Advanced knowledge and experience in the design of stormwater drainage networks, including demonstrated capabilities in the modelling of networks in PCDrain and/or 12D drainage modules
- Minimum three to five years demonstrated design/drafting experience within a consulting environment
- Demonstrated experience (10 years preferred) within the Civil Design field
- Understanding of design standards and processes (ideally within the North QLD market)
- Minimum five years demonstrated design/drafting experience within a consulting environment
- Design of civil projects using 12D, AutoCAD and other required packages
- Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment background check and drug test
- Reviews project requirements and accurately determines the correct format and contents of the required deliverables, including C/S drawings and 3D models
- Assist the Senior Engineer with site studies, site designs, contract documentation preparation and graphic presentation
- Perform administrative duties associated with project management for civil/site projects
- Bachelor's degree in Civil or Industrial Engineering
- This is a part-time, temporary position
Civil Designer Job Description
- Site specific design of Civil/ Site and utilities projects
- Experience working on land development projects or design of roads and drainage
- Preparation of conceptual and detailed design drawings in accordance with statutory requirements and standards
- Design using AutoCADD Civil 3-D and MicroStation
- Civil engineering design for roads, highways and drainage projects using 12D and AutoCAD
- Assists with the preparation of proposals, design packages, and tender documentation
- Assure delivery of quality products
- Managing deliverables, quality and program, coordinating drafting staff and mentoring others
- Participate in the delivery of projects and ensure output is of a high standard and within time and cost budget allocations
- Demonstrated experience using AutoCAD and 12D software packages
- Experience with ODOT and/or City of Columbus design policies, procedures, and requirements
- Ability to work closely with design professionals at a project level with minimal supervision
- Proficient with Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, MicroStation a plus
- 1+ year experience in land development site/civil
- Experience with Civil 3D
- Knowledge of stormwater management and stormwater software and calculations is a plus
Civil Designer Job Description
- Managing deliverables of a project including quality control
- Demonstrated experience using AutoCAD familiarity with Sheet Set Manager and xrefs
- Demonstrated experience using 12D including familiarity with super alignments, computators, boxing, mtfs and chains
- Ensuring designs take into account associated disciplines such as planning, survey, traffic, electrical and landscaping
- Solid knowledge and experience using 12D and CAD software
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills with internal and external stakeholders to ensure delivery of innovative solutions that meet client and broader community expectations
- Conduct occasional site reconnaissance to examine field conditions, drainage and erosion control needs, as built conditions
- Will be working closely with supervising engineers, project managers, and other professional staff
- Draft Land Development Plans, Zoning Plans, Concept Plans and Construction Documents
- Draft Site Plan Renderings for Municipal Presentations
- Experience with Microstation Geopak
- Requires a good working knowledge of Civil 3D, MicroStation, InRoads, LDD, construction documents and technical knowledge
- Knowledge and training using Civil 3D
- MicroStation and GEOPAK are a plus
- Associate degree in Civil Engineering Technology preferred
- Prepare engineering plans, profiles, sections and details, for permitting, design, tender, construction and as-constructed drawing sets
Civil Designer Job Description
- Prepares site grading and placement of basic erosion and sedimentation control measures
- Develops scope, cost estimate, schedule, design strategy and determines resources needed on Civil/Structural projects
- Collaborates with other multi-discipline designers / drafters to accomplish Civil/Structural design of projects
- Evaluates design standards for correctness, applicability, and relevance to particular Civil/Structural/Structural installations
- Complete drawing/project responsibilities within scope, budget and schedule
- Organize/maintain all revisions of project drawings, plot files and project-related information
- Utilize 3rd party applications like AutoTURN and AGI32 to generate drawings based on specific project requirements
- Complete earthwork analysis (cut/fill takeoffs)
- Ability to work under minimal supervision and resolve issues independently based on project/company standards
- Willingness to assume increased responsibilities
- Minimum 8 to 10 years proven experience in preparing detailed Civil Engineering drawings (RCC / Structural Steel Architectural) for Oil & Gas Onshore Projects
- Conversant withMicroStation, AutoCAD, and InRoads/Civil 3D to prepare layout and detailed drawings for Concrete & Steel Structure and Pipeline Horizontal and Vertical Plan Profiles from Topographic Survey reports and Plans
- Ability to communicate well with team members and take general instruction and feedback positively
- Ability/willingness to work independently part of a team
- Familiarity with AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager
- Understanding of data referencing