What are the responsibilities and job description for the Graduate Engineer position at Fields?
Graduate Engineer (EIT)- Transportation/Roadway
The Opportunity
Launch your engineering career with Aguirre & Fields as an Engineer in Training. In this role, you’ll work alongside experienced professional engineers on meaningful infrastructure projects that help communities grow and flourish. You’ll build practical technical skills, gain exposure to professional engineering standards, and develop the experience needed for future professional licensure. Our preferred location for this role is in our Austin, TX office, but open to Sugar Land or Fort Worth.
The Ideal Candidate
You’re an early-career civil engineer who is curious, dependable, and eager to learn. You bring strong communication skills, a commitment to ethical practice, and the grit and character to grow through hands-on project experience. You enjoy collaborating with others, taking ownership of your work, and contributing to a team that values integrity, innovation, transparency, and excellence.
Qualifications include a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent from an ABET/EAC accredited program, successful completion of the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, relevant technology or software experience, and strong written and verbal communication skills.
What You’ll Do
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Support professional engineers on transportation, public works, and infrastructure projects.
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Prepare plans, designs, calculations, and cost estimates under close supervision.
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Apply standard engineering methods, procedures, and criteria to assigned tasks.
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Learn from experienced mentors while building the foundation for professional licensure.
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Collaborate with project teams and contribute to a culture of integrity, innovation, and excellence.
The Company
Aguirre & Fields is a team of engineering innovators with grit and character, united by a passion for serving the communities where we live and work. We believe character drives behavior, decisions, and results — and our culture is built around doing meaningful work with integrity, collaboration, accountability, and care.
Our Guiding Principles shape how we lead, partner, solve problems, and support one another. They remind us to serve as one team, act with integrity, drive innovation, commit to each other, value transparency, and own the pursuit of excellence.
- Strength of Many - Serve as One; We have one project: our company.
- Serve with Integrity; We are character-driven.
- Drive Innovation; We cultivate a broad knowledge of our field.
- Commit to Each Other; We inspire people to be their best.
- Value Transparency; We nurture a safe learning environment that is inclusive and diverse.
- Own it; We all have a personal responsibility to be the driving force of excellence.
Ready to make the next step?
Interested in building your career while making a difference in the communities around you? We’d love to connect. Apply today and take the next step with Aguirre & Fields.
Aguirre & Fields provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.