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Senior Civil Engineer - Federal

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Location
Dallas, TXHybrid
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

PE LicenseBachelor's degree

Job overview

Jacobs seeks a Civil Engineer to support its federal team in a hybrid capacity at its Dallas office. The role involves civil design calculations, site and utility layouts, and coordination with engineers and technicians on federal projects. The engineer will review contractor and client drawings, apply design standards and regulatory requirements, and develop designs with minimal supervision. Some travel, including international travel, may be required.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Civil Design CalculationsSite DevelopmentProject DesignAutoCADCivil 3DBluebeam

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Civil Engineering15+ Years ExperiencePE LicenseUnited States Citizenship

Full job description

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 Civil Engineer to support our federal team in a hybrid capacity in our Dallas, TX 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

  • 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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Jacobs is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language.

How this job compares

Set against the 5,098 open Civil Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Texas median$91–140K/yr87 salary ranges
  • US median$30–43/hr206 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 360 open Civil Engineer jobs in Texas and 5,098 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Texas
Experience
This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Civil Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 4,147 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 3,967 of the 5,098 open Civil Engineer jobs (78%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 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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