JOB: Senior Civil Engineer-Municipal Services

Senior Civil Engineer - Municipal Services

Position Responsibilities: 

Position Purpose:

We are seeking a Civil Engineer with extensive experience and proven track record partnering with municipal clients. Candidates must have excellent business development skills, a passion for people, and be dedicated to exemplary work for our communities. This opportunity builds on Wightman’s strategic commitment to growth and the development of client focused teams. This role will include project management responsibilities.
 
Essential Functions:

• Maintain and foster good relationships with current and potential municipal clients. 
• Strong technical skills for storm, sanitary, water and local roads projects
• Oversee team performance and workload; facilitates work sharing with other locations and practices to deliver best in class projects to our clients
• Manage projects including client communications, public input and feedback, financial performance, and internal support 
• Ability to identify engineering and surveying services needed by the client and the ability to draft proposals and estimate fees
• Familiar with, identifies and pursues funding mechanisms to support our municipal clients

Position Requirements:

Required Traits & Characteristics:

• Advanced experience consulting or working with local, regional, and state government.
• Strong interpersonal skills required.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Passionate about organizing and leading others; drives results by planning, prioritizing, and meeting tight deadlines required.
• Ability to work independently with a self-motivated attitude; capable of overseeing multiple projects simultaneously.

Organizational Relationships

• Reports directly to Municipal Manager 
• Supervises direct report project engineers and designers
• Required Education/Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or a related field
• PE licensure in Michigan
• 10+ years of experience managing municipal projects; storm, sanitary, water, local roads
• 10+ years of experience in A/E/C industry with record of municipal client retention/attraction

Preferred Education/Experience

• 5+ years of experience in developing business
• 5+ years of experience managing direct reports
• PE licensure in Indiana

Travel

• Position based in Benton Harbor
• 10-15% local travel

Position Application Process: 

Applicants can apply at https://gowightman.com/careers/search-apply  or via LinkedIn, or reach out to HR at HR@gowightman.com with any questions.