Are you interested in a career in the fun, exciting, yet stable field of civil engineering? Binkley & Barfield | DCCM takes pride in our exceptional staff and considers our team critical to the company’s success. Providing professionals with the tools and training they need to achieve excellence in their career is key to employee engagement and productivity. Our goal is to foster a work environment that attracts top talent, inspires innovation, and renders excellence in service to our clients.

Our Power Services team has an immediate need for Distribution Designers. In this role, you will perform project related work in the utilities industry designing and planning power distribution facilities.

What you will do:

• Design overhead and underground electric and gas projects using engineering software.
• Create construction cost estimates.
• Gather information from GIS, maps, google maps, and google earth for any assigned projects.
• Determine fuse size and coordination.
• Investigate project needs and provide solutions to complete the assigned project.
• Create tree trimming sketches and Right-of-Way requirement estimates.
• Field check assigned projects.
• Stake projects.
• Issue Survey & Staking request to crews and when needed stake minor projects on your own.
• Create Work Orders and review materials list for project.
• Perform analysis of design to determine structural integrity.

Who you are:

You have good computer literacy and are not afraid to learn new programs and skills. You are a good communicator who not only has oral and written skills but are also an excellent listener with above average comprehension. Mathematics comes naturally to you and is used for problem-solving and analysis. You are a critical thinker who can apply knowledge to new assignments and uses critical thinking to bring everything together. You also excel in time management and may have developed these and other skills in an administrative or technical setting.

What you bring:

• 3 to 5 years' experience working in a related field preferred.
• Proficiency in using various computer software packages.
• Knowledge of CPS Energy - Electric Overhead and underground standards.
• Self-starter, results-oriented, and able to work under tight deadlines.
• Must have CPS Energy's Valid GIS electric or gas credentials.
• In lieu of degree, work history and experience will be considered for equivalent requirements.

Our comprehensive benefit package includes 3 medical plan options (2 PPOs and a HDHP), an employer contribution to HSA participants, dental, vision, company-paid group life, short and long-term disability insurance, flexible and dependent care spending accounts, 401(k) with company match, and PTO.

Binkley & Barfield, a DCCM company, and its sister companies offer a range of services, including transportation, structural, traffic, infrastructure (drainage, water, wastewater, and roadway), survey, construction management, utility engineering and coordination, subsurface utility engineering (SUE), telecommunications, power, pipeline, and emerging technologies. Binkley & Barfield ranks in the top two percent nationally for a flexible work environment by promoting a work/life balance and has won the When Work Works Award, formerly the Alfred P. Sloan Award, for five consecutive years. Binkley & Barfield has also been voted one of Houston’s Top Places to Work by the Houston Chronicle over 10 years in a row and is repeatedly ranked as one of the Top 10 Largest Houston-Area Civil & Structural engineering firms by the Houston Business Journal. Binkley & Barfield continues to provide excellence not only to its clients but to its employees as well.