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Senior Design Engineer

Najars Engineering
La Mesa, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 5/28/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/23/2026

Skills and Responsibilities:

  • Establish and maintain strong and positive working relationships with clients, public agency personnel and in-house professional peers.
  • Manage multiple and concurrent project designs.
  • Communicate project requirements to team members.
  • Management of project design, including daily assignments of work, review of work, and quality control.
  • Prepare grading and public improvement plans from conceptual design to entitlements to final construction documents to permitting.
  • Prepare technical reports/studies of project deliverables (performs advanced to expert computations and/or analysis).
  • If Licensed, signing and stamping plans/drawings and technical reports (project based).
  • Technical knowledge in multi-discipline projects and design.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Mentoring and training staff and serving as a resource to less experienced staff members.
  • Coordinate staff resources with the Project Manager of the project and/or Staff Lead Engineer.
  • Excellent time management skills.
  • Complete large projects independently, without much guidance, using critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Ability to explain and teach standard process to design, develop, document, review.
  • Land Development experience.
  • Stormwater and hydrology experience preferred.
  • Federal experience preferred.

Experience:

  • Min. 6 years of engineering experience


Requirements:

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from an accredited college (ABET)
  • PE License in CA preferred

Salary : $100,000 - $120,000

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