SENIOR CIVIL ENGINEER - LAND DEVELOPMENT

By collaborating with our dynamic engineering team, the Senior Civil Engineer will facilitate exciting projects such as the City’s new North City downtown and surrounding areas in the University District, the revitalization of San Marcos Boulevard, and an exciting artistic mixed-use development within Marcos Specific Plan area. 

You will be working closely with our other Divisions (Traffic, Building, and Planning) as wells as numerous other Divisions and Departments on projects ranging from single family residential to 200-acre commercial, mixed-use, and residential developments. You will utilize your experience for reviews of grading and public improvement plans, subdivision maps, and technical studies such as storm water quality documents, soils reports, drainage studies, traffic impact analyses, and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) documents regarding entitlement projects and final engineering/construction drawings.   

As a key professional in the organization, we’ll depend on your expertise on engineering standards, regulations, City policies, and professional standards of practice. It is expected to operate collaboratively to achieve solutions on engineering issues for projects. You will be a proponent in growing a solution driven and customer service oriented culture within the team and throughout the organization. You will work with applicant/developer teams, residents, external agencies, and City staff from the inception of entitlement process, to development of construction drawings, and into construction.  

You will help to organize workload, highlight potential issues, resolve challenging technical issues, and report to the Principal Civil Engineer. An important role as a Senior Civil Engineer is mentoring and cultivating the development of junior staff. 

Because we value innovation and partnership, we expect you to collaborate and foster positive working relationships with our partners and community and bring forth thoughtful and high-quality development projects. Serving the public is paramount to all that we do. We are driven by the more than 95,000 residents who count on us every day. For that reason, you must be responsive, collaborative and accountable to our community, customers and stakeholders. This includes working with our residents and other stakeholder groups to deliver projects that make a difference. 

If you are ready to join a team that welcomes fresh ideas – and empowers you to put them to work in a city that is hitting its stride – we'd love to hear from you.