Job Description

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 Houston 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:

• Gather information from various outlets such as GIS and Google Earth.
• Investigate project needs and provide solutions to complete the assigned project.
• Design overhead and underground electric projects using engineering software.
• Determine fuse size and coordination with assistance from engineers or staff professionals.
• Learn and apply design and construction standards.
• Determine Right-of-Way requirements for project design. 
• Field check assigned projects and document conditions related to your project. 
• Issue Survey & Staking request to crews and when needed stake projects on your own.
• Create Work Orders and review materials list for the project.
• Perform analysis of design to determine structural integrity. 

Job Requirements

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:

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Highly motivated person looking to get started in an engineering related field. 
• Evidence of successful performance at past endeavors (High GPA, Awards, References, etc.)
• Proficiency in using various computer software packages. 
• Have or are working towards a construction/engineering related degree or certificate. (preferred but not required)
• 2 years' relevant experience (preferred but not required). 

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.

Education

High School

Job Classification

Hourly

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