Civil CAD Designer

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand.

We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

AECOM’s Water Business Line seeks a creative and highly motivated Civil CAD Designer specializing in grading and earthwork design for immediate employment. This is a technical role working with engineers and project managers on various projects within the Dams, Mining and Water Resources markets. Candidates can expect a diverse set of project challenges focused on heavy civil grading for large mines, dams, access roads, and stormwater management.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for interdisciplinary collaboration in leading civil design, producing custom solutions, mentoring mid-level and junior staff, and developing calculations, drawings, reports, and specifications for civil design work on exciting and complex projects.

• Experience with Autodesk Civil 3D through release 2024, with an emphasis on surface modeling capabilities.
• General understanding of dam grading design and surface modeling for earth‑fill, rockfill, conventional concrete and RCC embankments, quarries, spillways, outlet works, foundations and drains.
• General understanding of mine grading design, surface modeling and site development for tailing storage facilities, embankments, seepage ponds, utility corridors, waste rock piles, buttresses, ring dikes, under drains, closure plans, and instrumentation and monitoring.
• Site development, access roads, drainage channels, jurisdictional and non‑jurisdictional dams, slope stabilization, retaining walls, detention ponds, land development, surface drainage, and stream restoration.
• Prepare detailed calculation packages for earthwork quantities, reservoir storage capacity, and tailing storage under guidance of senior team members.
• Knowledge of how to process a variety of data sources to build existing base surfaces from LiDAR, survey points, break lines, DEMs, and contours.
• Understanding of coordinate systems and the ability to transform data from one system to another.
• Ability to take general direction and simple sketches from engineers to then develop design criteria and progress through all stages of design.
• Data management of survey and client data through the project life cycle.
• Works under limited supervision.
• Required software experience:
  Civil 3D, BIM
  360, Projectwise, ACC (Autodesk Construction Cloud), Google Earth, Navis Works, Blue Marble Global Mapper.

• Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.

• Strong technical progression within civil engineering and design.
• Field and survey experience a plus.
• Comprehensive knowledge of industry standards.
• Experience with other software a plus:
  Infra Works, ReCap, Micro Station Open Roads, Open Ground, Geo Pak, Revit.

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• No sponsorship will be offered for this position.
• No relocation will be provided for this position.
• Offered compensation will be based on location and individual qualifications. The expected range is $80,000.00 - $.
• Work Location Model:
  Hybrid.

AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm that offers a comprehensive benefits program to meet the diverse needs of its employees, including medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absence, voluntary benefits, perks, U.S. and global well‑being programs, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

As an equal opportunity employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.