Civil Designer: Earthwork & Site Grading for Solar

Koch

Katy (TX)

On-site

USD 70,000 - 95,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

DEPCOM Power, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, seeks a Civil Designer – Earthwork focused to join our Katy, TX facility. You will prepare detailed civil designs for utility-scale solar projects, focusing on earthwork, grading, drainage, roads, and basins while aligning with jurisdictional and owner requirements.

Collaborate with civil, structural, and electrical teams to integrate site infrastructure with solar system design.

Qualifications

Requires detailed civil design experience with site grading, utilities, and earthwork calculations.

Responsibilities

Prepare detailed civil designs for utility-scale solar projects, including conceptual, preliminary, and final designs.
Apply industry design standards for site grading, road layout, mass grading, earthwork calculations, stormwater management, and erosion/sediment control.
Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams (civil, structural, electrical) to integrate site infrastructure with solar system design.
Coordinate with engineers to ensure that all technical design requirements are represented in the drawing package.
Manage day-to-day workflow to balance multiple development projects.
Use AutoCAD Civil 3D for large-scale site modeling, grading, and earthwork takeoffs.
Resolve design challenges creatively and efficiently to meet technical and client requirements.
Extract points, surfaces, and other drawing metadata for field use during construction.
Analyze contours and topographic data to produce grading surfaces.
Review reliance documents to develop base files for drawing packages.