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Senior Designer - Christiansburg VA
Westwood Professional Services Inc.
Westwood Professional Services Inc.is seekinga Senior Designer to join our Land Development team in Christiansburg VA. Westwood has a highly experienced and dynamic team of individuals dedicated to providing high-level professional services to our clients.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Selects recommends performs and directs procedures and preparation of preliminary and final design
- Assist in coordination with other in-house disciplines and sub-consultant services
- Prepares plan documents and supporting design calculations
- Demonstrates knowledge and application of engineering principles and completes fundamental calculations
- Able to delegate CAD assignments and determine methods and procedures
- Independently performs assignments on basic design elements
- Provides training and coordination with CAD Technicians and Engineering Interns
- Assist in meeting deadlines budgets and completing projects on schedule
- Prepare grading designs plan and profile of roadways and utilities
- Prepare complete civil construction documents/improvement plan sets
- Review and understand jurisdictional code requirements and implement in the design
- Prepare construction cost estimates/quantity takeoffs
- Perform Quality Assurance/Quality Control of work product
- Assist in the submittal of project document
- Assist in jurisdictional coordination response to comments and preparation of submittal documents
- Maintain open communication with Project Manager and design team
Required Skills
- Able to prepare grading plans with little direction from supervisor or team leader
- Understands drainage water sewer design elements
- Understand surveying mapping
- Competent technical skills required to complete basic engineering tasks
- Proactively pursues design solutions
- Exercises sound independent judgement
- Strong understanding of local and agency standards codes and policies
- Strong understanding of client requirements
- Ability to estimate man-hours for specific tasks
- Advanced knowledge of CAD software
- Able to identify and obtain necessary data to complete design
- Able to maintain organized CAD drawings and draws with precision
- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Outlook and able to write send and process email
- Able to maintain a task list and set the priority of tasks to achieve project milestones and deadlines
- Able to write justification letters for elements of designs and submittal packages
Required Experience
- 3 years of experience as a designer
- 5 years of experience in CAD drafting
- High School Diploma or equivalent and 5 years relevant experience OR;
- Associates Degree and 3 years relevant experience
Preferred Experience
- Land Development experience a plus
- Residential Engineering a plus
About Westwood Professional Services Inc. (Westwood)
At Westwood our purpose is to create a better world for people through our work. We transform the energy grid design resilient infrastructure and develop communities that will flourish today and for future generations. With over 50 years of experience and a legacy of innovation we stand at the forefront of our industry dedicated to understanding the unique needs of the markets we serve.
Our approach revolves around people. We are committed to building a culture that attracts retains and develops high performers. Our team values relationships innovation dedication initiative and growth. We believe fostering a collaborative One Team mentality yields superior outcomes
in everything we do.
We customize our technical capabilities and geographic reach to meet our clients where they are and help them realize their vision. We are partners in our clients success driving to provide solutions that make a lasting difference. Safety sustainability and operational excellence are not just facets of our work; they are intrinsic to our identity guiding every decision we make.
We are deeply invested in the communities we serve. Through our projects and giving-back initiatives we enrich the lives of those we serve engage others within our industry and create a lasting impact on communities around the world. To us success transcends the completion of projects; it is reflected in the lives we have positively impacted by our work.
Join us in creating a better world.
In 2024 Zweig Group ranked Westwood nationally at #13 and #40 respectively on its Hot Firms and Best Firms to Work for lists. Zweig also awarded Westwood one national 1st place award for Marketing Excellence. Westwood was recently recognized as #83 in the ENR Top 500 Firms in 2024. The firm consistently ranks on the industrys top 25 lists and receives recognition for its involvement in award-winning projects nationwide.
Westwood provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. We believe that diverse backgrounds strengthen our business. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
