About this role
Our team specializes in the planning, design, and modernization of electric distribution systems. We support utilities, municipalities, and commercial and industrial clients with projects focused on system reliability, capacity expansion, grid modernization, overhead and underground distribution, and complex urban infrastructure.
As a Civil Project Engineer, you will support the design of underground electric distribution infrastructure, with an emphasis on the civil components required to install and protect electrical facilities within public rights-of-way and utility easements.
You will develop and review civil designs, analyze existing conditions and potential utility conflicts, evaluate underground routing, and prepare detailed plan and profile drawings. This role requires a strong understanding of underground utility construction, including duct banks and duct packages, trenching, horizontal directional drilling (HDD)/bore installations, utility clearances, and right-of-way requirements.
What You'll Do
As a technical lead on project work, you will:
• Develop and review civil designs for underground electric distribution projects.
• Prepare and analyze plan and profile drawings using AutoCAD and/or Civil 3D.
• Review vendor, survey, civil, roadway, and utility drawings to identify potential conflicts and constructability concerns.
• Evaluate underground routing, elevations, clearances, utility crossings, and right-of-way constraints.
• Support the design of duct packages, duct banks, trenching, bore/HDD installations, and other underground utility infrastructure.
• Apply client standards, underground design specifications, and applicable permitting requirements throughout the design process.
• Provide technical guidance to Design Engineers and Design Technicians preparing detailed project designs.
• Perform technical and QA/QC reviews to promote accurate, complete, and constructible design packages.
• Coordinate with clients, utilities, municipalities, permitting agencies, survey teams, and other project stakeholders.
• Communicate project risks or challenges related to scope, schedule, cost, quality, constructability, and design requirements to the Project Manager.
• Assist with workload and resource planning and provide technical input on project staffing needs.
• Identify opportunities to improve design standards, workflows, quality, and project delivery.
Required Qualifications
• ABET-accredited bachelor's degree in Engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in utility, civil, or infrastructure design, or 1+ year of experience supporting electric distribution design projects in the Chicago market.
• At least 1 year of experience designing underground utilities, including preparing, reviewing, or analyzing plan and profile drawings for electric distribution, roadway, civil infrastructure, or utility construction projects.
• Proficiency with AutoCAD and/or Civil 3D for civil or utility design.
• Experience with right-of-way and utility engineering, including the ability to interpret utility locations, ROW boundaries, easements, elevations, crossings, and potential underground conflicts.
• Experience with one or more types of underground infrastructure, such as:
• Electric distribution
• Duct banks or duct packages
• Water mains
• Sanitary or storm sewer
• Underground telecommunications
• Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) or bored installations
• Ability to interpret civil, survey, roadway, and utility drawings and apply that information to underground utility design.
• Strong communication and coordination skills with the ability to work effectively with engineering teams, clients, utilities, municipalities, and other stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
• EIT certification or Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• 5+ years of underground utility design experience.
• 3+ years of underground electric distribution design experience, particularly supporting utilities or projects in the greater Chicago area.
• Experience designing both underground and overhead electric distribution facilities.
• Experience conducting technical and QA/QC design reviews.
• Experience developing restoration plans, maintenance-of-traffic/traffic control plans, civil survey requirements, or permitting packages.
• Experience coordinating projects within dense urban rights-of-way and environments with significant existing underground infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Chicago-area utility and municipal permitting requirements, including OUC coordination where applicable.
Why Join Us?
At ENTRUST Solutions Group, a Leidos company, we are driven by a commitment to innovation, technical excellence, and delivering the critical infrastructure that powers and connects communities. Together with Leidos, we are building a scaled, end-to-end energy and infrastructure organization focused on modernizing the grid, improving reliability, and helping utilities and network providers meet rising demand.
As an ENR top ranked firm, our team of more than 5,000 professionals brings deep technical expertise and advanced technology across electric, gas, and telecommunications infrastructure. We solve complex challenges for clients across North America and expanding markets, helping them strengthen reliability, expand capacity, and adapt to evolving infrastructure needs.
We foster a culture where innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement are expected, and where people are empowered to challenge convention, think boldly, and make an impact. Whether you are looking to grow your expertise, lead transformative projects, or help shape the future of infrastructure, you will find opportunities to thrive here.
If you are ready to outthink the status quo, tackle meaningful challenges, and build what is next, we would love to hear from you.
The base salary for this position ranges from $85,000 to $130,000 annually. The specific amount within this range will be influenced by the work location and various factors, such as internal equity, professional skills, work experience, and pertinent education or training.
Benefits offered include company sponsored medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) plan with company match. Also offered are tuition reimbursement, voluntary life, disability, critical illness, accident and hospitalization plans. HSA or FSA medical accounts and FSA dependent care and transportation/parking accounts are also available. These benefits are subject to employee contribution amounts generally set annually. Full time employees are eligible to earn PTO hours.
May be eligible for discretionary bonus as determined by the company.
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ENTRUST Solutions Group is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.
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