Koch Industries

Civil Engineer

Koch Industries • $120K — $160K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in civil engineering or related fields.
  • Experience interpreting civil drawings and specifications.
  • Proven ability to coordinate across various project stakeholders.
  • Skilled in identifying and escalating project risks or scope gaps.
  • Proficient in utilizing project data for decision-making.
  • Willing to travel to project sites as needed.

Responsibilities

  • Own the delivery of clear and complete civil scope across multiple project functions.
  • Translate site and customer data into actionable scope for various project phases.
  • Identify and escalate civil risks and scope gaps proactively.
  • Support bids by developing civil bid forms and estimate assumptions.
  • Coordinate with engineers of record for design alignment and scope assessment.
  • Track civil quantities and address associated costs and RFIs.
  • Lead handoffs of civil scope and document lessons learned for future improvements.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
  • Life insurance and disability coverage.
  • Retirement plan and paid vacation/time off.
  • Educational assistance and support for family-related needs.
Full Job Description
Your Job

DEPCOM Power has an immediate need for a Civil Scope Engineer. This role sits within DEPCOM's Civil & Structural Engineering capability and supports utility-scale solar and energy storage projects from target development through construction. The primary function of this role is to provide civil scope certainty by translating engineering requirements, site constraints, estimates, design assumptions, owner commitments, obtained permit requirements, and field needs into clear, executable scope.

The role is field-first, safety- and environmentally-compliance focused, commitment-driven, cost-conscious, and customer-aware. The selected individual will create value by contributing to the clarity, completeness, traceability, and field readiness of civil scope across estimating, engineering, project engineering, construction, environmental, and commercial interfaces.

Join our team and leverage your technical experience in civil engineering judgment, pre-construction scope discipline, and project engineering follow-through to reduce project & scope ambiguity and risk to ensure constructability, quality, and project execution readiness.

What You Will Do
  • Own clear, complete, traceable, and field-ready civil scope across estimating, engineering, construction, environmental, safety, quality, and commercial functions.
  • Translate site data, customer and contract requirements, design assumptions, estimates, and permit requirements into executable scope for pricing, subcontracting, design release, handoff, and field execution.
  • Identify, assign, communicate, and escalate material civil risks, missing inputs, assumptions, scope gaps, dependencies, exclusions, quantity variances, and unresolved decisions before they affect safety, compliance, procurement, cost, schedule, quality, or field productivity.
  • Support high-priority targets by reviewing site and design information and developing civil bid forms, estimate assumptions, customer clarifications, subcontract exhibits, and scope splits.
  • Coordinate with engineers of record to review design inputs and deliverables for scope alignment, owner and permit requirements, quantity impacts, constructability, field readiness, and commercial expectations.
  • Track civil quantities and cost drivers, and support timely resolution of RFIs, field questions, submittals, design clarifications, test results, nonconformances, as-built reviews, and sequencing concerns.
  • Lead civil handoffs by communicating scope, assumptions, exclusions, quantities, risks, permit requirements, subcontractor boundaries, customer commitments, and open items; capture lessons learned to improve future scope definition and execution.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Experience supporting civil engineering, civil construction, project engineering, estimating, pre-construction, or field execution.
  • Experience interpreting civil drawings, specifications, scope documents, design assumptions, quantity information, and technical requirements.
  • Experience coordinating work across engineering, estimating, construction, subcontractors, vendors, or other project stakeholders.
  • Experience identifying, documenting, communicating, and escalating project risks, open items, scope gaps, or changes.
  • Experience using project data and technical information to support decisions affecting cost, schedule, constructability, quality, safety, environmental compliance, or field execution.
  • Ability to travel (25%) to project sites as business needs require.


What Will Put You Ahead
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in an Engineering discpline - Civil engineering degree preferred
  • Professional Engineer licensure or Engineer-in-Training certification
  • Experience with utility-scale solar, battery energy storage, power generation, heavy civil, or EPC projects
  • Experience coordinating with an engineer of record and reviewing civil design deliverables for scope alignment and constructability
  • Experience with civil estimating, quantity tracking, subcontract scope development, contract exhibits, or change management
  • Knowledge of earthwork, grading, roads, drainage, stormwater, erosion control, underground utilities, survey, testing, and site restoration.
  • Experience supporting projects from pre-construction through design, construction, and closeout.


For this role, we anticipate paying $120,000 - $160,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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.

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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