Remote Civil Project Engineer - Stormwater & Site Design

Interlix Staffing; United States; Remote; USD 17,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly team meetings

Remote work flexibility

Job summary

Interlix Staffing is sourcing a Civil Project Engineer for a remote role serving the Philadelphia metro and New Jersey markets. The position emphasizes substantive site design, grading, drainage, stormwater, and utility design, with autonomy and collaboration with drafting teams.

The candidate should have solid stormwater fundamentals, strong AutoCAD skills, and be able to coordinate with project managers and drafters while ensuring project milestones and regulatory requirements are met.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil, Environmental, or Mechanical Engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of civil engineering experience.
• Mid-level civil site design ability beyond drafting.
• Hands-on grading and drainage design capability.
• Stormwater design fundamentals: hydrology and hydraulics.
• Professional-level AutoCAD proficiency.
• HydroCAD experience.
• Civil 3D proficiency: surfaces, profiles, cross sections, and pipe networks.
• Autonomy on complex assignments with limited oversight.
• Ability to consider broader project context and deadlines.
• Clear design intent communication via markups or written instructions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Detail-oriented with good prioritization.
• Intermediate Google Workspace, Word, Excel, Adobe Acrobat.
• Sufficient schedule overlap with US Eastern business hours.

Responsibilities

• Plan and prepare layouts and detailed design drawings, including grading, drainage, and utilities, from engineering notes, sketches, and other drawings.
• Perform civil site design across land development projects in the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors.
• Prepare stormwater management design, supporting calculation reports, and facilities maintenance guidelines.
• Apply hydrology and hydraulics fundamentals to stormwater design using HydroCAD.
• Design water and sewer utilities, and handle occasional road-related work such as road widening and associated curb line design.
• Develop designs and communicate them clearly to the drafting team through digital or hand markups that a drafter can act on directly.
• Research ordinance and zoning requirements, regulations, and project-specific data related to design.
• Prepare permit applications and identify when a design may trigger an additional approval, permit, or agency review.
• Recognize when further research is needed, such as whether wetlands may affect what can be built, and raise jurisdictional uncertainty with the project manager.
• Work closely with drafters, project managers, and senior team members to maintain plan coordination.
• Participate in client-facing conversations to understand client needs, then propose an approach to the project manager and move the work forward.
• Review drawings for completeness and accuracy.
• Complete drawing and project responsibilities within scope, budget, and schedule.
• Organize and maintain all revisions of project drawings, plot files, and project-related information.
• Attend the weekly team meeting.

Skills

AutoCAD

HydroCAD

Civil 3D

Stormwater design

Grading

Drainage

Communication

Autonomy

Google Workspace

Microsoft Word

Excel

Adobe Acrobat

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Bluebeam

Adobe Acrobat

Job description

Interlix Staffing is sourcing a Civil Project Engineer for a remote role serving the Philadelphia metro and New Jersey markets. The position emphasizes substantive site design, grading, drainage, stormwater, and utility design, with autonomy and collaboration with drafting teams.

The candidate should have solid stormwater fundamentals, strong AutoCAD skills, and be able to coordinate with project managers and drafters while ensuring project milestones and regulatory requirements are met.