Senior Civil Engineer

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Your impact

Thriving communities. Healthy cities. A brighter future. What we do is more than building roads and ports, we work every day to make the world better for everyone. Join a company invested in you, your success, and the global community. We are looking for a driven and curious Senior Civil Engineer to support our federal team in a hybrid capacity in our Irvine, CA office.

As a key member of our team, you’ll join our collaborative process providing our clients with award-winning planning, engineering, architectural design, construction management, and design-build project delivery. You’ll be performing civil design calculations and, preparing site and utility layouts while conforming to design standards for a variety of Federal projects. You’ll have the opportunity to coordinate project assignments with other engineers and technicians in and out of your discipline group to review and recommend required changes to drawings supplied by contractors, clients, and other engineers. Join us and we will assist in continuing the development of your skills and exploring all that you can do across our global company, with opportunities to share your knowledge along the way. 

Responsibilities include:

• Perform non-routine and complex assignments from verbal instructions
• Work closely with design originator and Project Managers
• Flexible in work assignments and team assignments
• Research and implement regulatory requirements and design standards
• Review drawings for completeness
• Analyze sketches, notes and other input material to determine and plan the best approach to develop designs with minimal supervision
• Some travel may be required, including international

Here's what you'll need

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering
• At least 15 years of experience on site development projects including project design
• PE license obtained
• United States Citizenship
• AutoCAD, Civil 3D design experience 
• Experience with Bluebeam software

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Posted Salary Range: Minimum

142,200.00

Posted Salary Range: Upper

248,800.00

Our health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Employees have access to medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance, a 401(k) plan, and the ability to purchase company stock at a discount. Eligible employees may also enroll in a deferred compensation plan or the Executive Deferral Plan. Jacobs has an unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) policy for full-time salaried/exempt employees, seven paid holidays, and caregiver leave. And certain roles may be eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, performance discretionary bonus, and stock.

The base salary range for this position is $142,200.00 to $248,800.00. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. Job posted on March 24, 2026. This position will be open for at least 3 days.

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

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Locations

City State Country
Irvine	California	United States
Fort Worth	Texas	United States