Civil Engineer

Your Opportunity

We are currently looking for an intermediate-level civil engineer to join our multidisciplinary team in Southern California (Pasadena or Irvine offices). If working on the most challenging water and natural resources projects around the world, building on your talents through a premier knowledge-sharing culture, and connecting across borders with some of the world’s top talent appeals to you, join us.

The successful candidate will build on their existing technical knowledge base to work on challenging and diverse tasks for dams and hydroelectric projects, conveyance tunnels, levee projects, and water resource projects for a variety of domestic and international clients. The successful candidate will be working in conjunction with other engineers on multi-discipline teams to support project development including feasibility studies, detailed design, and construction support. The successful candidate should be able to work independently and with small and large teams to apply critical thinking skills to solve technical issues and develop project-specific solutions. The position may require travel to project sites and will provide stimulating career growth opportunities including mentoring of less experienced staff.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Work with multidisciplinary teams to undertake infrastructure projects related to their planning, design and engineering.
• Follow safe work practices and adhere to company guidelines for planning and executing work in a safe manner.
• Select criteria for planning, design, and construction of dams, tunnels, and related structures.
• Work in conjunction with engineers, geologists, and other scientists to solve project challenges, performing design calculations as required.
• Prepare construction drawings and specifications for each design phase of a project.
• Participate in professional development and training activities.
• Prepare technical reports including, field reports, technical memoranda, computation packages, feasibility reports, and design and evaluation reports.
• Attend project coordination meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants.
• Implement Stantec quality control and quality assurance process for project deliverables.
• Assist with basic cost estimating.
• Engineering design through sketches, electronic models, diagrams, and other visual formats.
• Participate in Construction Quality Assurance including the review of shop drawings and submittals, response to request for information, prepare site observation reports, and perform other contract administration tasks.
• Provide leadership, coordination, and ownership of tasks from initiation to successful completion.
• Mentoring, coaching, and training of less-experienced professionals, as required