Senior Designer - Public WorksRole Description: Huitt-Zollars has a great full-time opportunity for a Senior Designer at our El Paso office. The successful candidate is one who is committed to high-quality design and sustainable civil design practices, is an enthusiastic self-starter with a desire for learning, and possesses a collaborative spirit.
Location: El Paso, Texas
Employment type: 40 FT Hours
Education: Associates of Applied Science in Drafting
Duties:- Prepare civil plans for projects focused on public works infrastructure, including roadways, drainage, water, sewer, utility facilities, and earthwork projects.
- Perform analysis of design and construction systems, planning studies, design layouts, and construction details.
- Conduct site and construction inspections for information-gathering purposes and prepare reports.
- Execute material selections and technical solutions.
- Analyze design and construction systems, design layouts, and construction features, which require researching, compiling, and recording information for assigned project work.
Qualifications: - Associate of Applied Science degree or higher required.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in the profession as a Civil Engineering Designer.
- Proficient in AutoCAD and Microsoft Office Suite.
- Demonstrated site work and construction technical experience.
- Ability to prioritize and deliver multiple projects with varying deadlines.
- Excellent verbal, written, and graphic communication skills.
- Ability to lead and coordinate consultant teams.
- Ability to interact with owners and user groups.
- Strong organizational and leadership skills.
Technical Support Role Annual Performance Goals & Expectations:- Having a deep understanding of how your work and contributions as a co-owner add to Huitt-Zollars' mission and core values.
- Understands, follows, and enforces Huitt-Zollars' business process.
- Routinely proposes and produces more effective ways to accomplish assignments.
- Maintains a safe and hazard-free work area and operates with a 'safety first' approach to their work - even within an office setting.
- Routinely functions in a technically proficient manner on project/technical operations.
- Takes on more responsibilities and actively seeks out opportunities to grow/learn beyond their typical key responsibilities that add value to the quality, efficiency, and/or profitability of a project(s), a team(s), or the Company's performance.
This position is also required to adhere to Huitt-Zollars' Core Value CompetenciesBenefits & Perks:- Health insurance (BCBS TX BlueChoice PPO)
- Dental insurance (BCBS TX BlueChoice PPO)
- Vision insurance (BCBS TX BlueChoice PPO)
- MDLive Telehealth
- Employer-Paid Short- & Long-Term disability
- 8 Paid Holidays
- Employee Morale/Teambuilding events and activities
- Paid Vacation/Annual Leave
- Paid Sick Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Commuter Benefits
- Professional Societies and Registrations Fee Reimbursements
- Term Life / AD&D insurance
- Cancer and Specified Disease insurance
- Two retirement plans: 401(k) and an ESOP
- Work for an Employee-Owned firm
Physical Requirements:- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer, type/key-in data
- May lift and carry up to 50 pounds, hike up and down steep slopes carrying up to 50 pounds of survey equipment
- The employee must be able to concentrate on details, work under deadline pressures, apply sound logic and judgment, and prioritize tasks and responsibilities
- Employee may be asked to walk on uneven terrain
- May work in extreme weather conditions
- Bend, squat, dig monument holes, pound in stakes and rebar monuments
- Carry and use brush cutting equipment
- May drive survey vehicle
Applicants must be legally authorized to work for Huitt-Zollars in the U.S. without employer sponsorship. Currently, Huitt-Zollars does not sponsor H1-B or any other work visa petitions. Huitt-Zollars does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters without a previously signed third-party agreement. Any unsolicited third-party resumes forwarded by recruiters to any Huitt-Zollars hiring manager or employee will be considered public information, may be treated as a direct application from the person identified in the resume, and will not be eligible for placement fee payment to the agency submitting the unsolicited resume. Huitt-Zollars will not pay a fee to a third-party recruiter or agency that has not coordinated their recruiting activity with the appropriate member of the Human Resources team and without an active, fully executed service agreement.
