Utility Pipeline Designer

Job Title: Utility Pipeline Designer

We currently seek a high caliber Pipeline Design Engineer for a contract-to-hire basis within our client’s team of experienced professionals. Based in Fountain Valley, CA.

Our client has an excellent reputation for pipeline and utility engineering and design and is experiencing increasing demand for this type of work. We are seeking to add several enthusiastic design engineers to supplement and support our dedicated design engineering teams with projects in California and beyond. We offer challenging work in a productive environment with career opportunities to develop, along a technical or project management career path.


Job Requirements:
We are seeking engineering graduates in the fields of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering to perform engineering and design services.

We have fantastic opportunities for design engineers to support pipeline and utility design, and mapping using AutoCAD. The work includes documenting features such as utilities, incorporating survey and property/right-of-way information, developing exhibits for communication, and permitting, and preparing construction drawings. The work is primarily in the office, but there are often great opportunities to perform field investigations and validation for the pipeline and utility designs. The primary tool used in this work is AutoCAD Civil3D and Plant 3D. Some design engineers also use GIS and drones as part of the workflow process and development of deliverables, depending on project requirements and the initiative of individuals to learn and apply ESRI and other GIS systems to the completion of the work.
Engineers in this position have typically learned quickly through increasingly challenging assignments, and their role has grown to include coordination with other engineering disciplines, project engineering and project management. Job duties will also include interfacing with clients and construction contractors, field investigation, and construct