Project Engineer, Civil Engineering

As a Senior Project Engineer in San Diego, CA you will have an opportunity to serve our client base in the Southern California area. You will work with a multi-disciplinary team on meaningful, landmark land development projects in the San Diego area. As a RICK team member, you will help clients and communities turn their dreams into reality. You will learn from and work alongside industry-leading experts and together shape the future of tomorrow.

RICK offers career progression opportunitites with a pathway to ownership potential.

• Qualified candidate will have a BSCE degree, CA Registration as a Professional Civil Engineer, plus a minimum of fifteen (15) years of directly relevant experience; or the equivalent work experience of eighteen (18) years in this industry.
• Local San Diego County experience as well as California experience preferred.
• Candidate must possess the ability to sustain positive business relationships, obtain new work, and to market services provided by RICK.
• Candidate shall be active and have continuous involvement in community and professional societies and organizations.

• Independent thought and decision-making abilities and excellent communication skills
• A minimum of five years management experience supervising the work of technical staff required
• Ability to provide exceptional customer service and foster client relationships
• Possess demonstrated leadership and supervisory skills
• Exhibit management ability
• Team player
• Adept in establishing and maintaining strong and positive working relationships with clients/public-agency personnel and in-house staff

• Management of construction bid documents and contracts
• Management of construction support and field coordination
• Management of project schedules and budgets
• Preparation of contracts, write comprehensive fee proposals and scopes of work for both private land development projects as well as collaborate on public works pursuits
• Significant experience in client and private and public-agency interactions

• Ability to perform conceptual and preliminary engineering design studies (incorporating land use and zoning considerations, assessment and consideration of site constraints, infrastructure requirements, and potential regulatory issues)
• Preparation/processing of regulatory plans
• Preparation/processing of public improvement plans (private offsite work and public works)
• Ability to perform constructability reviews
• Experience with a range of construction support services
• Knowledge of jurisdictional codes, standards, and procedures in California and the San Diego region is strongly preferred. Ownership opportunity potential.

• AutoCAD/Civil 3D experience is required.
• Applies engineering principles, techniques, and procedures to design
• Possesses working knowledge of business and management principles associated with strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership techniques, production procedures, interview and hiring methods and the coordination of people
• Accepts and carries out responsibility for the design team's direction, control and planning; sets realistic goals and makes plans independently
• Exhibits a thorough understanding of jurisdictional processing
• Demonstrates a high level of leadership & management ability; accepts and responds appropriately to constructive feedback with others and applies seasoned time management
• Providing mentoring and training of junior engineers and designers
• Relates well and maintains a high level of respect and confidence from co-workers, public agencies
• Demonstrates a high level of competence in written and oral communication
• Possesses knowledge of CAD and its capabilities for preparing exhibits, studies and/or final plan

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Profit Sharing, 401K, and Life and Disability Insurance and Personal Leave
• Holiday Parties, Team Building Activities and Events and Alternative Work Schedule