Koch Industries

Civil Designer - Earthwork Focused

Koch Industries$80K — $95K *
Katy, TX 77449In-Person
Real Estate & Construction
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of AutoCAD drafting expertise, including sheet-set manager and other advanced features
  • Experience with Civil 3D for civil design applications
  • Strong grasp of general drafting standards and practices
  • Preferred background in PV or BESS Civil Design
  • Exposure to non-Autodesk 2D or 3D design tools
  • Familiarity with PDF tools like Adobe Acrobat or BlueBeam Revu
  • Knowledge of programming languages like LISP, .NET, Python, or Dynamo

Responsibilities

  • Prepare detailed civil designs for large-scale solar projects, from conceptual to final plans
  • Apply site grading and drainage industry standards
  • Collaborate with various engineering disciplines to ensure cohesive design
  • Coordinate with engineers to incorporate all design requirements
  • Manage workflow across multiple concurrent projects
  • Utilize AutoCAD Civil 3D for site modeling and grading
  • Resolve complex design challenges with innovative solutions

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement plan options
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance programs
  • Potential for infertility assistance and paid parental leave
Full Job Description
Your Job

DEPCOM Power, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is looking for a Civil Designer - Earthwork focused to join the growing team at our Katy, TX facility (greater Houston area). As a Civil Designer, you will play a pivotal role in building utility scale PV and BESS plants across the country.

Join our team and use your technical expertise, creativity and collaboration to partner with DEPCOM's Civil Engineering team and cross-functional stakeholders, to develop designs that promote constructability and inform our bidding and estimating capability. As a Civil Designer, you will verify and refine layout area designs, handle detailed civil design components such as array grading, utilities, basins, drainage and roads while producing designs that are compliant with jurisdictional and owner requirements.

This position is not eligible for VISA Sponsorship.

What You Will Do

  • 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


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

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


What Will Put You Ahead (Preferred Qualifications)

  • PV or BESS Civil Design experience
  • 2D or 3D Design experience in non-Autodesk Software
  • Experience Adobe Acrobat or BlueBeam Revu
  • Knowledge of LISP, .NET, Python or Dynamo programming


At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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