Senior Civil Engineer

Join our team at Tower Pinkster and open the door to an exciting and rewarding career.
Tower Pinkster is a multidisciplinary architecture, engineering, and interior design firm with offices across Michigan, Indiana, and Kentucky. We are seeking a talented Senior Civil Engineer with fifteen plus years of professional experience in the AEC industry. This role is ideal for a senior technical professional who enjoys hands‑on design and project execution while working in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment.

The position includes providing technical direction, coordinating work efforts, and mentoring junior engineers and designers assigned to your projects. Some exposure to project management is helpful but not required, and experience with Civil 3D is considered a bonus rather than a requirement.

• Encourage positive communication among team members and across disciplines.
• Create opportunities to enhance teamwork, create inclusion, and a positive work environment.
• Strive to cultivate equity, respect, integrity, humor, and the celebration of talent.
• Promote a positive work culture by leading by example and supporting the Tower Pinkster Leadership Team.

• Play a part in maintaining long‑standing relationships with clients.
• Assist in business development functions, including networking to create connections with potential department candidates, and maintain involvement in professional organizations.
• Participate in the process of interviewing prospective new clients to understand their needs.
• Collaborate with the client in planning design, determining solutions and scope of the project to develop a structural approach to meet client needs.

• Lead and coordinate project efforts with other disciplines, clients, and construction partners to meet schedule milestones.
• Provide civil design concepts, calculation, layout and good construction practices for a variety of projects.
• Coordinate and schedule civil team design and permitting efforts.
• Assist with quality checks and ensure the reviews of all projects.
• Conduct field assessments, and engineering studies.
• Lead and coordinate project efforts with other disciplines, clients, and construction partners to meet schedule milestones.

• Mentor team to share experiences, knowledge, skills, and lessons learned for continuous improvement.
• Assist the Manager of the Department in creating training and mentorship opportunities for individuals and the team.
• Lead, teach, and guide other project team members to assist in their growth and development.
• Guide young professionals through the Licensure Process.

• Provide input on work priorities and project scheduling.
• Conduct quality control reviews on various projects.
• Serve as a civil engineering subject matter expert to resolve project issues.
• Provide input to department standards and procedures.

• Perform and lead civil/site design for commercial, industrial, K–12, higher education, and public‑sector projects, including site layout, grading, drainage, utilities, and paving.
• Collaborate closely with in‑house architects, landscape architects, structural engineers, and MEP engineers to integrate civil design with building, utility, and campus/site improvements.
• Serve as the lead civil engineer on assigned projects, coordinating civil scope internally and externally.
• Direct and review work performed by junior engineers and designers assisting on projects; provide clear technical guidance, and mentoring.
• Prepare and oversee stormwater management designs, hydrologic and hydraulic calculations, detention/retention systems, and regulatory compliance.
• Develop technical calculations, drainage reports, specifications, and permit submittal packages for agency review.
• Coordinate with surveyors, geotechnical engineers, utility providers, and regulatory authorities.
• Perform and/or lead construction‑phase services including RFI responses, submittal reviews, site observations, punch lists, and record drawings.
• Participate in internal project coordination meetings and contribute to scope development, design schedules, and fee development as needed.
• Support QA/QC efforts by reviewing…