Sr. Civil Designer

Salas O’Brien is a growing employee‑owned engineering and professional services firm focused on achieving impact for our clients, our team, and the world. We know that tomorrow’s requirements are today’s opportunities, and we are here to design lasting solutions for pressing challenges.

The Federal‑FL business unit serves a variety of markets and employs engineers in the civil, mechanical, electrical, aerospace, industrial, environmental, and fire protection disciplines. We have performed work in most states in the continental US and multiple international locations.

Our office is located in Merritt Island, Florida, immediately south of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Our office (formerly Nelson Engineering, Salas O’Brien Company) has a significant aerospace heritage working with NASA, US Space Force, and numerous private space companies while providing an ever‑expanding mix of engineering services to federal and local government agencies as well as commercial customers in a variety of industries.

We are focused on providing client value and exceeding our customers’ expectations.

The Sr. Civil Designer will be drafting support to engineers and other designers throughout the engineering design process. You will primarily focus on AutoCAD and Civil3D model and drawing development of construction drawing packages based on various datasets and engineer input, completing engineer markups during the design process, preparing design concepts, completing as‑built drawings and the creation or modification of details.

Responsibilities may also include performing in‑field walk‑downs of equipment/facilities, verifying existing conditions of sites and facilities prior to new design efforts, and compiling data. Work will primarily be conducted virtually, but local candidates are encouraged to work from the office occasionally (20%). Travel to the Space Coast Area of Florida (Brevard County) and other travel locations will be limited.

Civil drafting / design support for new construction, renovation, and modification projects including development of civil construction drawing elements such as:

• Site plans – existing condition, demolition, and modification site plans showing scope of work in planimetric view. Importing of survey drawings in applicable coordinate system.
• Utility plan and profile drawings – alignment‑based plan and profile drawings showing the primary utility and crossing / conflicting utilities and ground surface data in plan and profile view, including pressure and gravity systems for various liquid and gas systems.
• Paving, grading, and drainage plans – site plans indicating extents and types of pavement, existing and modified topography and grading, and drainage plans indicating flow paths and drainage system elements (structures, ponds, culverts, etc.).
• Geometry plans – site plans indicating measurement and survey point based geometric data connected to state plane coordinate systems.
• Various details, schedules, and diagrams to illustrate typical and project‑specific elements for construction.
• Produce record drawing documentation based on contractor redlines, as‑built survey conditions, and engineer input.
• Civil drafting/design support for new construction, renovations and modification efforts.

• A.S. in Drafting and Design (or equivalent experience)
• Minimum of 10 years of drafting/design experience working with Civil3D with specific experience in application for development of civil construction drawing packages.
• An in‑depth knowledge of the civil engineering design process including documentation of existing conditions, integration of pre‑and‑post‑construction survey data, and working directly with engineers to develop construction packages.
• Extensive experience working with civil design drawings and detailed civil plans is essential.

• Creating multiple existing surfaces, proposed surfaces, final surfaces, GRID surface, GRID volume surface, and TIN volume surface
• Coordinate systems and AEC unit setup
• Point file formatting to export and import point files
• Alignment creation and station labeling
• Surface…