Civil Engineer - Salas O'Brien

At Salas O’Brien we tell our clients that we’re engineered for impact. This passion for making a difference applies just as much to our team as it does to our projects. That’s why we’re committed to living our values every day: inspiring, achieving, and connecting as shared owners of our success with a focus on a sustainable future.

Building for the long-term means that all of our team members can expect to work on amazing projects with a people-first approach to problem solving. It also means that each member of our team has truly limitless potential to build a unique, meaningful, and high-impact career—and they’ll receive great total rewards along the way.

About Us:

Founded in 1975, Salas O’Brien is an employee-owned engineering and professional services firm focused on achieving impact for our clients, our team, and the world. We know that tomorrow’s requirements are today’s opportunities, and we are here to design lasting solutions for pressing challenges.

We work across a variety of industries providing integrated engineering and consulting services. Our specialized experience includes design for data centers, healthcare, science and technology, high-rise buildings, clean energy, education, and other building types as well as structural and building sciences, infrastructure asset management, advanced robotics, and more.

Our technical expertise is paired with an exceptional team of business development, human resources, finance and accounting, information technology, and marketing professionals, all of whom play a key role in bringing our commitments to life every day.

Job Description:

Join Salas O’Brien and be part of a team that provides valued solutions that build success for our clients and employees. Your role will include building and managing relationships with in-house teams and contractors while providing design and consulting services that are needed by facility managers and owners. The types of projects that you will work on will include:

• Decarbonization/Electrification projects
• Higher Education Facilities
• K-12 Educational Facilities
• Healthcare Facilities
• Sports Facilities
• Manufacturing Facilities
• Industrial Facilities
• Municipal Facilities

General Duties:

• Listen to our clients’ needs and independently provide value to them by evaluating options based upon the client’s needs and desires, first cost, and life cycle cost.
• Communicate your design recommendations to our clients, project team, construction contractors, and vendors in presentations, meetings, via email and phone as necessary.
• Work alone on projects or work on a project team with other technical staff to design and detail new systems that are needed, assuring that the work is accurate and coordinated and that the quality assurance measures have been followed.
• Provide timely services that meet the needs of the clients and the overall project schedule requirements.
• Participate in on site observations, information gathering, and interaction with clients and contractors both during the design and construction phases of the projects to represent Salas O’Brien in the field.
• Maintain appropriate contact with our existing clients so that they think of our firm when services are needed.
• Work as part of a multi disciplined design team for new and existing clients by meeting with them to discuss the projects, conducting presentations, and evaluate design alternatives.
• Work as part of a team with other engineers and designers to develop project deliverables.
• Perform Civil design calculations following office standards.
• Stay abreast of new design and analysis technologies and building materials through continuing education activities.

Skills:

• Overall site planning
• Site grading and volume calculations
• Stormwater management design
• Stormwater pollution control systems
• Site thermal piping distribution
• Pressure and gravity distribution systems using AutoCAD Civil 3D design tools
• Site electrical and telecommunications raceway design.
• Develop specification documents
• Roadway and parking design

Qualifications:

• Applicants should have a minimum of a BS in Civil Engineering and must have passed or plan to take the Fundamentals of Engineering exam.
• 3-7 years of experience is preferred, but entry level and more experienced degreed engineers will be considered based on work experience and attitude.
• Applicants should have a working knowledge of Civil analysis and design software (specifically Civil 3D preferred).
• A Professional Engineering license is preferred but not required.
• This opportunity is intended to be a hybrid position (3 days in the office/2 days remote) but other arrangements will be considered depending upon the qualifications and circumstances of the applicant.

Location: Bloomington, MN

Travel: Up to 10%

Equal Opportunity Employment Statement

Salas O’Brien is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals and in which personnel processes are merit-based and applied without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, citizenship, or other protected characteristic.