Description
Goodwyn Mills Cawood (GMC) is one of the largest privately-held architecture and engineering firms in the Southeast, with offices located throughout the region including South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Tennessee. Our recent accolades include ENR Southeast 2024 Design Firm of the Year. We are growing in the Lowcountry and are focused on “Building Communities” at the core of our mission.
GMC has an opening for Engineering Designer (Site / Civil) to support on-going and future projects in Charleston, SC office. This position will be involved in all stages of due-diligence, design, permitting and construction and will work hand in hand with project managers in producing documents and managing projects. Applicant should be well organized, eager to learn each day, and able to work within a close team environment. This position is for an individual who is ready to grow quickly into project management, and who is willing and able to work with outside consultants to assist in driving projects to successful completion.
Essential functions and responsibilities include:
- Building on extensive technical foundations with the expectation to make significant contributions to the team efforts for the benefit of the client
- Demonstrating ability to evaluate, select, and apply standards, techniques, procedures, and criteria to perform a task or sequence of tasks for projects
- Understanding of technical requirements needed in the design of a project and how various disciplines are integrated to meet the needs of the client
- Independent performer on most assignments
- Produce plans and drawings as assigned with minimal instruction
- Ability to apply technical skills to routine projects with minimal supervision
- Demonstrates strong understanding of surveying
- Prepares scopes, budgets and schedules for assignments with support from a project manager
- Exercises broad knowledge of the design process and understands company technical standards
- Integrates multiple components of design
- Knowledge of codes and design in construction practices
- Visit construction sites to observe progress and to determine general conformance to engineering plans and specifications
- Recognizes and reports risk management issues to project manager, as appropriate
- Ability to coordinate work with professional engineers, surveyors, architects, developers, city code enforcement officials and construction crews
Minimum Qualifications:
- 0-5+ Years of relevant (civil) experience
- AutoCAD proficiency required
- BS Degree in civil engineering
- Ability to travel
- Working knowledge of A&E industry, processes, and policies
- Demonstrated ability to work under pressure, to manage deadlines and prioritize assignments
- Understanding of the tasks associated with the preparation of construction documents
Travel requirements:
- 10-20% Field travel (including site visits, project meetings, and permitting coordination)
Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans
About GMC
We believe in community, collaboration, and using the power of creativity and hard work to make a difference. Whether designing schools, parks, hospitals and other commercial developments, or providing clean water, safe streets and restoring resilient environments, GMC takes great pride in serving our communities through the transformative work we do. Every project is guided by the foundational concept that communities are built by people, not companies, and we strive to serve our communities with quality, integrity, creativity and care. One of the Southeast’s most comprehensive multi-disciplined firms, GMC is equipped to provide all of the services associated with architecture, interior design, civil engineering, environmental services, landscape architecture, planning, transportation engineering, geotechnical engineering, electrical engineering, surveying and disaster recovery.
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