Job ID: 12542
Location: Reading, Pennsylvania
Category: Engineering & Manufacturing
Employment Type: Contract
Date Added: 10/09/2026

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Job Description

Senior Principal Civil Designer

Location: Reading, PA

Description:

You will provide civil design services to client and its customers, including technical support and supervision within the civil design team.

Responsibilities: 

  • As a Senior Principal Designer, you will be responsible to have a full understanding of the project’s scope, overall schedule, deliverables, milestones, manhour budgets, industry standards, applicable codes, and procedures.  
  • Prepare civil drawings with minimal amount of supervision and engineering input. 
  • Develop a complete design drawing package for checking or checking the design drawing package. 
  • Responsible for the quality assurance of the documents to the applicable drawing standards and responsible for following the proper document management procedures.
  • Interface with other disciplines in the development of the drawing package. 
  • Assist in the preparation of bills of materials. 
  • Work in a team-oriented environment.
  • Work closely with engineers and other disciplines to ensure coordinated design systems.
  • Read and interpret supplier drawings, construction specifications and schematics.

Qualifications:
What you will bring:
Technical and Industry Experience: 

  • Extensive experience in site layout design including parking lots, walkways, roadways, grading and drainage systems, detention/retention basins, sanitary sewer systems, and railroad siding. 
  • Experience working in project leadership role.
  • Experience checking civil drawing packages along with coordinating civil drawing packages with all other engineering disciplines.
  • Proficient in MS Office: Word, Excel and Access.
  • Team participation skills.
  • Self-motivated, organized, able to work independently.
  • Strong interpersonal and written communication skills.
  • Experience with the application of MicroStation V8i & AutoCAD.
  • MS Office skills (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) required.

Education – Qualifications, Accreditation, Training:
Required:

  • 2 or 3 year technical diploma with piping design specific training.

Preferred:

  • Equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.