Job Description
The position involves leading civil site development for large-scale renewable energy projects, managing design, permitting, client communication, and construction support, while mentoring team members and ensuring project success from feasibility to completion.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead site development for large-scale renewable projects, including scope, schedule, and budget management.
- Manage civil workstreams such as site planning, grading, drainage, roadways, stormwater, and erosion sediment control from feasibility through construction.
- Review and approve design calculations, plans, and specifications while enforcing QA/QC standards.
- Coordinate multi-disciplinary efforts with electrical, environmental, and survey teams to resolve interfaces and constraints.
- Lead permitting and entitlement processes, including preparing submittals and responses for authorities having jurisdiction.
- Manage client relationships by overseeing schedules, budgets, risks, change orders, and presenting technical findings.
- Support construction activities through RFIs, design clarifications, site reviews, and field walks.
- Mentor and direct engineering and design staff, developing best practices and reusable standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering; a Master of Science in Civil Engineering is a plus.
- 8 to 12 years of civil site design experience, with at least 4 years in utility-scale solar, BESS, or comparable large infrastructure projects.
- PE license or ability to obtain licensure in a short order; strongly preferred.
- Proven project management experience including scope, schedule, budget, risk, and change management.
- Demonstrated success leading multi-disciplinary design teams and mentoring junior staff.
- Willingness to travel periodically for site walks, permitting meetings, and construction support.
- Ability to lead day-to-day project ownership including scope, schedule, and budget management.
- Experience in driving civil workstreams such as site planning, grading, drainage, roadways, stormwater, erosion sediment control from feasibility through IFC and as-built stages.
- Experience in design management including setting design criteria, reviewing and approving calculations, plans, and specifications, and enforcing QA/QC standards.
- Ability to coordinate multi-discipline interfaces including electrical collection, substation, environmental permitting, and survey.
- Experience in permitting and entitlement processes including managing submittals and responses with AHJs, SWPPP, NPDES, grading, access ROW, drainage reports, floodplain, and utility coordination.
- Experience managing schedules, budgets, risks, and change orders, and conducting progress meetings, presenting technical findings, and value-engineering options.
- Ability to provide construction support including RFIs responses, design clarifications, cut fill optimization, access improvements, and site field reviews.
- Experience in technical utility-scale site layout optimization for PV arrays and BESS yards considering setbacks, topographic constraints, access, O&M, and drainage.
- Experience in grading earthwork, earthwork mass balance, and constructability on variable terrain under-rack grading tracker constraints.
- Knowledge of hydraulics and hydrology including detention, retention, culverts, channels, outfalls, and floodplain impacts.
- Experience in stormwater erosion control plans (SWPPP, BMPs) tailored to phased construction.
- Experience in designing roads, pads, gravel haul roads, inverter transformer GC laydown, and crane paths.
- Ability to produce civil basis-of-design reports, drainage reports, quantity takeoffs, opinions of probable cost, and IFC package leadership.
- Proficiency with AutoCAD Civil 3D (surfaces, corridors, grading, pipe networks, sheet sets), HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS or Hydraflow equivalents, and GIS workflows.
- Physical ability to perform site walks, permitting meetings, and construction support activities.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation packages including annual bonuses, spot bonuses, and peer recognition awards
Base salary range of $100,000 - $150,000
Paid Time Off
Paid Parental Leave
Flexible work schedules for some positions
Travel vouchers based on travel preferences
401K match up to 4% of compensation
Tuition Assistance
Student Loan Repayment up to $25,000
Paid Licensing Certification Fees and Renewals
Employee Referral bonuses up to $5,000
Annual Wellness Reimbursement up to $500
Gym memberships, fitness trackers, home gym equipment
Dependent Care Match
Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
Family Planning and IVF Benefits
Pet Insurance
Health Savings Account and Flex Spending Account options
Employer paid LTD, STD, and life insurance
Metlife Supplemental Benefits covering accident, hospitalization, and critical illness
Member Assistance Program with counseling, legal, financial, and work-life services
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