Job Description

As a Civil Engineer II, you will carry the technical design on several active projects at once, and you will be the person the team comes to when a site problem needs an answer. You will produce PE-stamped drawings and specifications, take the design through code and agency review, and run construction administration on your own projects with a senior engineer available but not looking over your shoulder.

This is the level where a civil engineer stops executing someone else's plan and starts writing it. You will build the work plans and schedules yourself. You will coordinate the other disciplines and the outside consultants, and you will mentor the engineers coming up behind you. The step from here is Civil Engineer III, and past that, project and studio leadership. Progressive is employee owned (ESOP), so the work you deliver builds your own stake in the firm.

In this role, you will:

1. Stamp your own designs. Produce the design analysis, calculations, contract documents, and technical specifications in Revit and AutoCAD, and carry them to a PE-stamped set that meets the firm's Performance Based Design standards.
2. Build work plans and schedules that account for how long permitting actually takes. Set the scope, sequence, and dates for your projects with the reviewing agencies' timeframes built in, and raise scope changes while there is still schedule left to absorb them.
3. Own the code and regulatory review on medium to high complexity projects. Lead the zoning, environmental, and safety code review, then take the design through client and governing agency review yourself, resolving comments rather than routing them upward.
4. Design the site systems on the harder infrastructure projects. Handle stormwater systems, utility layouts, grading, retaining structures, and foundations, along with the soil mechanics evaluations behind them, and make the calls on the structural components of the site.
5. Run construction administration on your projects with minimal supervision. Handle RFIs, shop drawing submittals, clarifications, and field inspections, oversee material testing and read the results against the specifications, and get answers back to the contractor before the field is waiting on you.
6. Coordinate the disciplines and outside consultants, then verify what comes back. Organize and lead the project team meetings, keep everyone current on scope and schedule changes, and review the work that comes back instead of assuming it is right.
7. Catch documentation inconsistencies before anything leaves the office. Review your own drawings and calculations, check the specifications and junior staff work against them, and resolve the conflicts you find with the team rather than passing them to the client or the contractor.
8. Bring the junior engineers up. Give the engineers and designers behind you technical guidance on their assignments, sit with them on work they have not done before, and take what you learn into the Lessons Learned sessions so it does not stay with one project team.

People Matter

Each individual’s background, knowledge, ability, and experience contributes to strengthening our organization and projects. Our dedication to diversity includes company provided training and education, equitable recruitment, a grassroots employee DEI committee, and robust community partnerships.

Progressive Companies is comprised of people with a variety of abilities, races, colors, religions, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, ages, veteran statuses, and more. As an equal opportunity employer, we believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential elements of innovative design. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

Transforming Spaces. Empowering People.

The talented professionals of Progressive Companies are designers of a bold new future, creating high-performance structures and pathways, delivering on today’s needs and preparing for what’s to come. We live by the idea that design isn’t simply about beauty, it’s about improving strategic outcomes—what we call Performance Based Design. Our work spans across the nation, allowing team members to work on a variety of exciting projects and maximize impact as trusted partners to our clients and communities.

Sustainable and Inclusive

We are dedicated to human-centered, sustainable, and inclusive design practices. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to building trust, respect, and truly innovative design making spaces welcoming and accessible to all. Our sustainability approach embraces the AIA 2030 Commitment, together with a range of high performance, restorative, and regenerative strategies with a focus on climate responsive results to maximize positive impact in our industry.

Employee Owned

We act like owners—because we are. From modest beginnings of four original engineering partners in 1962, to almost 300 architects, engineers, designers, and consultants across multiple regional offices today, the energy, resourcefulness, and entrepreneurial mindset you expect from a CEO come standard with every team member.

Culture of Excellence

The firm is continually ranked as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation®, with comprehensive benefits including an award-winning wellness program, hybrid work schedule, summer hours, profit-sharing, and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). We take our work seriously, but have fun along the way, which fuels the creative spirit and supports a focus on work and life integration.

Progressive Companies is committed to development and growth of team members through continuing education, mentorship, growth opportunities, and more. We are dedicated to giving back to our communities, with paid service-learning hours available to every employee and corporate sponsorship for a wide range of community organizations and activities.