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.

The Sr. Civil Designer will provide 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.

Work will primarily be conducted virtually, but local candidates are encouraged to work from the office (20% of the time). Travel to the Space Coast Area of Florida (Brevard County) and other locations will be limited.

• 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. Includes 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.

• 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
• Referencing Digital Elevation Models (DEMS)
• Alignment creation and station labeling
• Surface profile sampling, sample line creation for sections
• Profile view creation
• Feature line creation and appropriate applications
• Grading tools and surface creation from grading groups
• Pipe, pipe networks parts lists and catalogs
• Surface profile sampling and sample line creation for sections
• Project Explorer
• Civil 3D label style and 3D object style creation
• View frame creation, output plan and profile sheets to sheet set with automatic match lines
• Section sample line creation along alignment and output section views to sheets and automatically add to sheet set with station location title
• Experience and proficiency in Autodesk Map (2023‑26 versions), Autodesk AutoCAD (2023‑26 versions), Autodesk Vehicle Tracking (2023‑26 versions), Autodesk Recapture; experience with GIS mapping software (QGIS / ArcGIS Map). Basic understanding of…