Civil Engineering Designer II

As a Civil Engineering Designer II, you will design and produce construction documents for a range of public and private civil projects — site plans, utility plans and profiles, road design, traffic signal plans, grading plans, and right-of-way plans — using your competency in AutoCAD Civil 3D. You’ll collaborate daily with project managers and engineers across multiple concurrent project assignments, building the technical judgment and design instincts senior designers rely on.

This role offers the chance to sharpen your CAD production and design skills across a variety of project types and grow toward a licensed Civil Engineer path — with the mentorship, quality-control coaching, and multidisciplinary exposure of a firm that invests in developing its designers.

Performance Objectives

1. Produce accurate design deliverables across multiple project types. Contribute to preliminary concepts and full design-phase deliverables — drawings, specifications, cost estimates, and supporting materials — for site plans, utility plans and profiles, road design, traffic signal plans, grading plans, and right-of-way plans, using AutoCAD Civil 3D and complementary software (Revit, HEC-RAS, EPANET, MicroStation) to meet deadlines with oversight from senior engineers.
2. Manage multiple concurrent project assignments. Maintain assignments across several small projects at once, coordinating with multiple project engineers to deliver contract documents that stay consistent with each project’s scope, schedule, and fee allotment.
3. Deliver work that holds up under review. Review your own work for accuracy before submission, flag design and documentation inconsistencies to senior team members, and build toward proactively resolving them yourself — reducing the rework senior staff need to catch downstream.
4. Ramp into full design responsibility. Within the first 90 days, learn the firm’s CAD and quality-control standards, take ownership of deliverable production on at least one active project, and begin attending off-site meetings and field inspections alongside senior staff.
5. Strengthen designs through applied engineering knowledge. Perform calculations for drainage, grading, and foundation design, and develop CAD/BIM models for roads, utilities, and site plans that align with applicable codes, zoning, and environmental regulations, coordinating with the broader project team.
6. Contribute to a learning team. Actively participate in team meetings and “Lessons Learned” sessions, and proactively seek out more complex project tasks from senior staff to accelerate your growth toward the next level.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from an EAC/ABET-accredited program or equivalent in education and experience required for professional licensure.
• 5+ years of post-graduation professional Civil Engineering experience.
• Comfortable working in AutoCAD Civil 3D.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook.

Preferred Qualifications

• Engineer In Training (passed Fundamentals of Engineering Exam). 
• CSI-CDT certification.
• Experience in HEC RAS or EPANET (water distribution).

People Matter
Each individual’s background, knowledge, ability, and experience contributes to strengthening our organization and projects. Our dedication to diversity includes company provided training and education, equitable recruitment, a grassroots employee DEI committee, and robust community partnerships.

Progressive Companies is comprised of people with a variety of abilities, races, colors, religions, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, ages, veteran statuses, and more. As an equal opportunity employer, we believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential elements of innovative design. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
 
Transforming Spaces. Empowering People. 

The talented professionals of Progressive Companies are designers of a bold new future, creating high-performance structures and pathways, delivering on today’s needs and preparing for what’s to come. We live by the idea that design isn’t simply about beauty, it’s about improving strategic outcomes—what we call Performance Based Design. Our work spans across the nation, allowing team members to work on a variety of exciting projects and maximize impact as trusted partners to our clients and communities. 
 
Sustainable and Inclusive 

We are dedicated to human-centered, sustainable, and inclusive design practices. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to building trust, respect, and truly innovative design making spaces welcoming and accessible to all. Our sustainability approach embraces the AIA 2030 Commitment, together with a range of high performance, restorative, and regenerative strategies with a focus on climate responsive results to maximize positive impact in our industry.
 
Employee Owned 

We act like owners—because we are. From modest beginnings of four original engineering partners in 1962, to almost 300 architects, engineers, designers, and consultants across multiple regional offices today, the energy, resourcefulness, and entrepreneurial mindset you expect from a CEO come standard with every team member. 
 
Culture of Excellence 

The firm is continually ranked as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation®, with comprehensive benefits including an award-winning wellness program, hybrid work schedule, summer hours, profit-sharing, and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). We take our work seriously, but have fun along the way, which fuels the creative spirit and supports a focus on work and life integration. 
Progressive Companies is committed to development and growth of team members through continuing education, mentorship, growth opportunities, and more. We are dedicated to giving back to our communities, with paid service-learning hours available to every employee and corporate sponsorship for a wide range of community organizations and activities.