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 group has a need for a Distribution Designer to join their team. In this role, performed on-site in our Houston office, 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 projects using engineering software
• Gather information from sources such as GIS, Google, plans, drawings, and others
• Investigate project needs and provide solutions to complete the assigned project
• Determine fuse size and coordination with assistance from engineers or staff professionals
• Learn and apply design and construction standards
• Learn and apply right-of-way requirements for project design
• Field check assigned projects and document conditions related to the project
• Issue survey and staking requests to crews and, when needed, stake minor projects on your own
• Create work orders and review materials list for projects
• Perform analysis of design to determine structural integrity

Who you are:

You are a team player with a professional demeanor focused on performing a variety of support functions. As a self-starter, you have excellent time and task management skills. You are an accomplished communicator, both verbal and written.

What you bring:

• Have (or working towards) a 2-year construction/engineering-related degree or certificate preferred but not required.
• 2 years of work history experience preferred but not required.
• Proficiency in using various computer software packages.
• Proficient in Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel
• Basic understanding or willingness to learn National Electric Safety Codes
• Basic understanding of electricity
• Basic understanding of construction methodologies
• Basic use and understanding of construction tools (tape measure, hammer, etc.)
• Ability to read, interpret, summarize, and discuss blueprints, technical drawings, and maps
• Valid driver’s license and transportation available

Our comprehensive benefits package includes three medical plan options (two PPOs and an 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 | DCCM offers a range of services, including transportation, structural, traffic, infrastructure (drainage, water, wastewater, and roadway), construction management, utility engineering and coordination, subsurface utility engineering (SUE), telecommunications, power, pipeline, emerging technologies, and even surveying (through our wholly owned subsidiary, Baseline | DCCM). Binkley & Barfield | DCCM 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. The firm continues to gain recognition in the industry and, as such, continuously ranks in the following: Top 500 Design Firms in the U.S. by Engineering News-Record, top regional firms by Engineering News-Record in Texas and Louisiana, Hot Firms by Zweig Group, Best Firms To Work the U.S. and Canada by Zweig Group, and the Largest Houston-Area Civil and Structural Engineering Firms by the Houston Business Journal. Binkley & Barfield | DCCM is also recognized as a top engineering company by employees and is continuously named one of Houston Chronicle's Top Workplaces.