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Manager, Civil Design

Houston, Texas

 

 

Venture Global LNG (“Venture Global”) is a long-term, low-cost provider of American-produced liquefied natural gas. The company’s two Louisiana-based export projects service the global demand for North American natural gas and support the long-term development of clean and reliable North American energy supplies. Using reliable, proven technology in an innovative plant design configuration, Venture Global’s modular, mid-scale plant design will replace traditional designs as it allows for the same efficiency and operational reliability at significantly lower capital cost. 

Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled civil designer to join our team who has extensive experience in 3D modeling of grading, drainage, paving, and roads utilizing Autodesk Civil 3D. This position will serve multiple roles with the goal of ensuring efficiently produced high quality civil drawings and 3D design models for our projects.  The candidate must be capable of producing detailed and accurate 3D design models that comply with all the civil design criteria. The candidate is required to have experience in the Detailed Design phase of engineering for producing civil engineering drawings and 3D Models.  

This position is located in our Downtown Houston office and is a Monday - Friday in-office position. 

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience in 3D Modeling of grading, drainage, paving, and roads in AutoDesk Civil 3D within the last 10 years.
  • 5+ years of “Detailed Design” experience in civil design for multiple 
  • 5+ years of experience in the Oil, Gas, and Chemical Industry
  • 7+ years of experience in civil design
  • Preferred 10+ years of experience in Computer Aided Drafting and Design
  • Preferred that have 1 or more of the following drafting and design credentials:
  • Associates Degree, or higher, in a Computer Aided Drafting and Design (CADD / CAD) related degree
  • Autodesk Certified Professional (ACP) in AutoCAD
  • Autodesk Certified Professional (ACP) in Civil 3D
  • Certified Survey Technician (CST) – American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM)
  • Certified Engineering Technician (CET) – National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET)
  • Autodesk Certified Instructor (ACI)
  • Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering
  • Professional Engineering License
  • Certified Civil 3D Professional from and Autodesk Learning partner
  • If not of the above credentials are met, then information on other structured training needs to be provided.  

Key Responsibilities:

  • Coordinate the development of the 3D design models and drawings for projects
  • Contribute to the development of the civil design criteria
  • Setup the files for 3D design models and drawings where needed
  • Setup starting examples of 3D design models for others to continue
  • Be responsible for confirming that 3D design models are accurate, complete, and comply with all aspects the design criteria.
  • Help keep projects on schedule by implementing efficient methods for producing drawings and 3D design models
  • Contribute to the production of 3D design models and drawings where needed
  • Provide on-the-job training and guidance to engineers and designers in 3D modeling and drawings production
  • Help develop design standards, guidelines, and templates

Preferred Skills:

  • General: The candidate should be detail oriented, comfortable with technical writing, proficient with basic geometric math, be able to keep track of multiple tasks with separate deadlines, be comfortable delegating work, and be willing to step in to whatever designer role is needed at the time to meet the project or department goals. 
  • General 2D AutoCAD: Setting up tiled plans utilizing multiple layout tabs in one file, Title Block setup, standard layers setup, layers management, drawing to-scale details, annotating best practices, snap best practices, and coordinate transformations.  
  • General Civil 3D Modeling: Expert at utilizing and modifying automatic labels and styles for alignments profiles views, profiles, section views, and sections.  Proficient at creating alignments, profile views, profiles, sample lines, and sections. Proficient at almost all the major functions involved with utilizing assemblies and corridors. Experienced with extracting the Civil 3D models into 3D faces and 3D solids for importing to Navisworks.
  • Civil 3D Grading: Ability to create detailed grading models that utilize Autodesk Civil 3D feature lines for grade breaks, feature lines on different “Sites” for pasted surfaces, grading creation tools, and pasted surfaces.  The elevations on the features lines must be assigned based simple geometric calculations that fall within a range of design criteria.  Grading surfaces should not be designed by using “Edit Surface” commands such as deleting lines and swapping triangles.
  • Civil 3D Roads: Proficient at creating and modifying road assemblies.  Ability to create and Design Road Profiles per PIP CVE02350 Roadway Design Guide, AASHTO “Green Book” A Policy on. Geometric Design of. Highways and Streets, or AASHTO Guidelines for Geometric Design of Low-Volume Roads. 
  • Civil 3D Drainage: Able to create ditches from corridors that grade to a starting surface.  Proficient at using pipe networks for pipes, boxes, and drainage structures.

 

Venture Global LNG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.

 

 

 

 

 

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