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    Civil / LA Engineering Technician I - Roanoke, United States - Balzer & Associates

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    Looking for a terrific place to build your career and write your own success story?

    Balzer & Associates is searching for a Civil / LA Engineering Technician I. This is an incredible opportunity to lead and grow with an extremely successful firm. At Balzer & Associates, we have been delivering design solutions to clients for over 50 years and are looking for the right team members to contribute to our mission of serving the community. Our employees are recognized as the essential pillars to our development and success; therefore, our focus is on taking exceptional care of not only our clients, but of our team.

    When you join our team, you are exposed to all aspects of the design process. As a multi-disciplinary firm, our staff has the unique opportunity to interact, learn, and grow in a collaborative environment where knowledge is gained every day. Our diversity of work and disciplines affords our professionals the opportunity to be involved with a wide variety of projects that provide a foundation on which an outstanding career can be built.

    Balzer & Associates offers a competitive, robust benefit package to full-time employees consisting of medical, dental and vision insurance; 401k match; PTO & paid holidays; annual bonus program, discretionary profit sharing, educational reimbursement, employee engagement events, financial wellness education, and other valuable benefits.


    Job Summary:

    The Civil / LA Engineering Technician I assists the project engineer in the application of principles, methods, and techniques of engineering. The incumbent will have the opportunity to bring CAD skills and passion for design to bear, delivering state-of-the-art construction solutions to clients. The Civil / LA Engineering Technician I plays an integral role in every phase of the construction process from initial planning to project realization, utilizing the latest drafting technology to bring clients' visions to life.

    Duties and Responsibilities:

    • Reviews project scope and confers with project engineer concerning tasks required such as plan preparation, evaluation of field conditions, design requirements, and/or reports
    • Visits project sites to obtain and analyze topographical and/or existing conditions of structures and other details of sites
    • Prepares or directs preparation, calculations, specifications, plans, construction documents, and inspection schedules for projects
    • Coordinate structural designs and plans with architectural building plans or models as well as mechanical, plumbing, electrical, and site constraints as they affect the building
    • Uses computer equipment including engineering and design modeling software to prepare engineering and design documents
    • Review material shop drawings and conduct periodic on-site observations of work during construction to determine conformance of project to design specifications
    • Support and communicate with engineers, project managers and other supervisors throughout all stages of the drafting, design and construction process
    • Collects and gathers information or documents
    • Performs standard computations or analysis
    • Performs basic design tasks

    Required Skills and Abilities:

    • Ability to write effective reports and correspondence
    • Construction document and 3D production ability
    • Interpretation and application of technical instructions
    • Skilled in the application of design concepts
    • Basic engineering knowledge along with current knowledge of industry trends, technology, codes and regulations
    • Intermediate level proficiency in Microsoft Office products
    • Proficient in AutoCAD and other discipline specific software

    Education and Experience:

    • Bachelor's degree from accredited college or university required
    • Valid Virginia driver's license is required
    • Works under direct supervision of a licensed civil engineer or civil project manager; work is closely managed
    • Works on projects / matters of limited complexity in a support role
    • 0‐3 years of experience

    Competencies Required:

    • Attention to detail / engagement
    • Self‐motivated
    • Software & basic engineering knowledge
    • Critical thinking (design thinking and problem‐solving skills)
    • Ability to infer and transfer information from one detail or project to another and avoid repeating mistakes
    • Basic design / engineering skills
    • Drawing basic software competency (CAD and sketching), redline edits with attention to detail
    • Ability to organize work assignments

    Other Duties:

    Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.



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