Earthwork Civil Designer for Solar Sites (Hybrid)

Koch Business Solutions, LP; Pleasanton (CA); Hybrid; USD 62,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Health savings accounts

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Educational assistance

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

DEPCOM Power, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is seeking a Civil Designer - Earthwork Focused to support utility-scale solar and energy storage projects across North America. Location options include Katy, TX; Bedminster, NJ; or Pleasanton, CA, with a hybrid work model.

You will develop site layouts, earthwork grading plans, stormwater systems, drainage, utilities, and access roads, collaborating with civil, structural, and electrical teams to deliver detailed drawings and ensure

Qualifications

• AutoCAD drafting experience to include sheet-set manager, blocks and x-references.
• Civil 3D civil design experience
• Understanding of general drafting standards

Responsibilities

• Prepare detailed civil designs for utility-scale or large land development 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 ensure balance between multiple projects in development at the same time
• Use specialized software such as AutoCAD Civil 3D for large-scale site modeling, grading, and earthwork takeoffs
• Resolve design challenges creatively and efficiently, ensuring solutions meet technical and client requirements
• Extract points, surfaces, and other drawing metadata for field use during construction of project
• Analyze contours and topographic survey data to produce preliminary grading surfaces
• Review reliance documents to assist in development of base files for drawing packages

Skills

AutoCAD drafting experience

Civil 3D civil design experience

Understanding of general draftingstand

Tools

AutoCAD Civil 3D

Adobe Acrobat

BlueBeam Revu

LISP/.NET/Python/Dynamo programming

Job description

DEPCOM Power, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is seeking a Civil Designer - Earthwork Focused to support utility-scale solar and energy storage projects across North America. Location options include Katy, TX; Bedminster, NJ; or Pleasanton, CA, with a hybrid work model.

You will develop site layouts, earthwork grading plans, stormwater systems, drainage, utilities, and access roads, collaborating with civil, structural, and electrical teams to deliver detailed drawings and ensure