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Minneapolis, MN · HybridFull-time$11.41/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Job overview
GRAEF seeks a Director of Civil Engineering to provide firmwide leadership for its civil engineering community while remaining engaged in project work. The role advances technical standards and quality, strengthens collaboration across offices, develops staff and future leaders, and partners with firm leadership on strategy, innovation, recruiting, and business development. It also provides project leadership, design, technical oversight, and quality reviews for complex and strategically important projects.
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Elevate Your Career with GRAEF - A Top Workplace
Are you passionate about technical excellence, developing people, and shaping the future of civil engineering?
GRAEF is seeking a Director of Civil Engineering to provide firmwide leadership for one of our largest technical communities. Reporting to the Chief Technical Officer, this role is responsible for advancing technical excellence, strengthening quality, promoting collaboration across offices, and developing the next generation of civil engineering leaders.
This is an opportunity to influence the future of civil engineering at GRAEF while remaining engaged in project work and collaborating with professionals across the firm.
What You'll Do
Lead Technical Excellence
Lead the development and implementation of firmwide technical standards, best practices, quality processes, and resources that support consistent, high-quality project delivery across GRAEF's Civil Engineering Technical Community.
Build a Connected Civil Engineering Practice
Promote collaboration and work-sharing across offices, connect projects with the right expertise, and strengthen firmwide technical capabilities.
Develop People and Future Leaders
Support onboarding, mentoring, technical training, and succession planning within GRAEF's Civil Engineering Technical Community, helping civil engineering staff grow professionally.
Shape the Future
Partner with firm leadership on technical strategy, innovation, recruiting, business planning, and business development, including supporting client relationships and project pursuits. Help guide investment in emerging technologies and capabilities that strengthen GRAEF's civil engineering practice.
Engage with Projects
Remain actively engaged in project work through project leadership, management, design, and technical oversight. Provide expertise on complex and strategically important projects, support quality reviews, and help project teams improve delivery, solve challenges, and manage risk.
What You Bring:
Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering
Professional Engineer (PE) license
Minimum of 12 years of civil engineering experience
Demonstrated technical and leadership experience
Strong communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills
Passion for technical excellence, quality, and staff development
Why GRAEF?
At GRAEF, we do more than design infrastructure. We invest in our people, build strong relationships, and create opportunities for employees to grow, lead, and make a lasting impact on the communities we serve. If you're ready to help shape the future of civil engineering at GRAEF, we'd love to hear from you.
We are proud to offer the following benefits:
Training, Mentorship, and Leadership Development Programs
A team atmosphere dedicated to open communication and collaboration
Flexible Hours/Hybrid Schedule
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
Embed yourself in the community by participating in numerous outside activities that GRAEF endorses and supports
Exciting office location, with free amenities, including onsite fitness center and more
Free parking
Paid Parental Leave
Paid Time Off
Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
Flexible Spending Plans
Retirement Savings Plan
Tuition Reimbursement
Casual Dress
An Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer - Disabled/Vets
EOE-Disabled/Vets
Minimum Education Required
Bachelor Degree
Minimum Experience Required
12 - 20 years
Shift
First (Day)
Number of Openings
1
Public Transportation Accessible
Yes
Veterans Encouraged to Apply
No
Physical Required
Yes
Drug Test Required
Yes
Compensation
$11.41 / Hourly
Postal Code
55413
Job Type
Full Time
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
1014767
Job Benefits
Not specified
How this job compares
Set against the 1,390 open Civil Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$11.41/hr
- Minnesota median$20–24/hr38 hourly ranges
- US median$22–30/hr287 hourly ranges
This rate, $11.41/hr, is 48% below the Minnesota median midpoint ($22/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Civil Engineering hourly ranges in Minnesota.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 48 open Civil Engineering jobs in Minnesota and 1,390 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Minnesota
- State of Minnesota13 open
- Braun Intertec Corporation8 open
- SRF Consulting Group4 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 12 years of experience — more than three in four Civil Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 705 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 675 of the 1,390 open Civil Engineering jobs (49%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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