Purpose
The Project Designer is responsible for coordinating and executing utility design projects, with a focus on joint trench systems. This role ensures compliance with utility standards, resolves design conflicts, and supports timely and accurate project delivery. Serving as a key liaison among stakeholders, the Project Designer facilitates clear communication and efficient workflows. The role also contributes to standardizing CAD processes and project documentation, supporting both field and office operations.
Focus & Scope
Essential duties and responsibilities, i.e. those which are basic, necessary, and an integral part of the job, are indicated below:
Company / Entity
- Actively supports the achievement of construction goals and objectives. Stays abreast of evolving industry trends and best practices, including new techniques and equipment.
- Ensures team stays focused on long-range priorities and uses customer feedback to make improvements to day-to-day processes and procedures.
- Collaborates across area offices and builds consistency in construction and safety practices and procedures on all project efforts.
- Ensures policies, procedures, and standards are adhered to as well as protect the company's interests.
- Prepares the workforce for changing business needs. Maximizes performance and motivation of the workforce through modeling innovative and effective management techniques.
- Promotes and protects Teichert's values including diversity, teamwork, fair work environment, and respect of others. Maintains a "team" spirit within the business unit.
- Works and cooperates with other disciplines across company lines to maximize use of resources.
- Promotes and protects the community perception of Teichert.
- Aspires to achieve a zero-injury culture through visible support of Teichert's Injury Prevention and Safety program, the implementation/interpretation of safety programs, active participation in safety meetings and training sessions and ensuring required safety training for craft employees is completed. Proactively identifies, and communicates, safety improvements and hazardous/potentially hazardous conditions to maintain a safe, healthy work environment and meet corporate safety standards.
Technical / Specialty Area
- Ensure projects are completed on time, within budget, adhere to commitments made to customers, and meet quality and customer expectations.
- Act as liaison to initiate and maintain contact between clients, estimators, on-site superintendents, and others to facilitate construction activities and maintain a high degree of customer service.
- Prepare documentation and correspondence to clients pertaining to contracts, project issues, status, or other. Represents the company in project meetings and may attend pre-job meetings with prospective new clients.
- Build and maintain positive working relationships with customers, A/E representatives, union officials, public agencies, contractors, and other business units. Facilitates communication of company and project policies, procedures, and standards.
- Complete internal administrative organization responsibilities and documentation, including project logs, files, records and reports. May include safety, training, personnel and equipment resources, state and federal regulations, and foremen's diaries.
- Assist in developing and maintaining written construction program guidelines.
- Provide subject matter expertise on utility standards, ensuring full compliance across all design projects.
- Coordinate and maintain effective working relationships with utility companies to support utility design efforts.
- Collaborate with civil engineers, architects, and other stakeholders to resolve design conflicts and develop standardized procedures for future conflict resolution.
- Represent the company in meetings with utility companies and other entities to address compliance and design issues.
- Partner with the Utility Design Project Manager and project teams to support timely and within-scope completion of joint trench and related design projects.
- Assist in developing and standardizing procedures for receiving CAD files, setting up stamps, formatting for applications, and ensuring file layers meet utility company preferences.
- Conduct research on clearance standards and consult applicable design manuals to ensure compliance with all relevant requirements.
- Support, train, and standardize processes for the accurate and timely completion of required documentation, including 'Form B'.
Relationships, Qualifications and Requirements, & Competencies
Key Relationships
Reports to:
- Vice President and Regional Manager
Direct reports:
External customers:
- Owners, developers, private customers, inspectors, public agencies, state and federal regulatory agencies, A/E representatives, material suppliers, industry peers for networking, civil engineers and utility designers.
Internal customers:
- VP & Manager Field Operations, Area Managers, Estimating Managers, Estimators, General Superintendent, Superintendents, Safety Specialists, Administrative Manager, Cost Engineering Manager, Contract Administrator, Cost Analysts, Project Engineers, Administrative Staff, Precast, Readymix, Aggregates, Mobile Equipment, Quality Control, and other business units.
Role Qualifications & Requirements
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, (or related field) or equivalent combination of technical training and related experience.
Experience & Industry Expertise:
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience as a designer in the field of architecture, engineering, utility design, joint trench composite preparation or equivalent combination of technical training and related experience.
Specific Job Requirements:
- Successful completion of pre-employment drug, alcohol, and background investigation
- Basic knowledge of joint trench composite and utility design.
- Good working knowledge of AutoCAD.
- Ability to create and manage design standards and develop CAD library.
- Current on all company required safety training
- Ability to preserve confidential and proprietary information and successfully avoid conflicts-of-interest
- Good working knowledge of project management and/or estimating software
- Thorough understanding of corporate and industry practices, processes, standards, technology, equipment methods, cost control, schedules, etc. and their impact on project activities
- Thorough knowledge of the company's Standard Operating Policies and Procedures
- Occasional overnight travel
Competencies:
- Relationship Management
- Business Acumen
- Communications
- Organization and Management
- People Management
- People Development
- Technology: AutoCAD, Microsoft 365 Suite
- Technical competence in construction
Equipment Used, Physical Demands, and Work Environment
Equipment Used:
- Personal computer, telephone, company vehicle, personal protective equipment (i.e. safety glasses, steel-toed boots, hearing protection, etc.)
Physical Demands & Work Environment: The physical demands and work environment characteristics are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Physical: Sitting for long periods of time working at the computer or driving to job sites. Job site visits require walking on uneven ground, climbing, bending, stooping, and crawling in confined or enclosed spaces. Some lifting of materials and equipment up to 50 lbs. Close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. May work long hours during peak seasons.
- Work Environment: Typical office environment with adequate temperatures and lighting, low levels of noise. Exposed to the conditions of job sites which can include loud noise, dust, fumes, and extreme weather conditions prevalent at the time. May work various shifts or hours, including early mornings, dusk or evenings.
BASE SALARY RANGE:
$74,167.00 - $103,833.00
The range displayed reflects the range the company reasonable expects to pay for the position. The actual base salary is subject to variation due to the role, level, geographic location, relevant education, training, or experience, among other factors.
Employer Disclosure Statement
The above statements and job description is intended to describe the nature and level of work being performed within this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and tasks. Other similar or additional duties are performed as assigned.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Teichert and its subsidiaries are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Individuals seeking employment at our company are considered without regards to age, ancestry, color, race, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Notice to Staffing Agencies
Teichert, Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Teichert") will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Teichert, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Teichert mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to Teichert employees, or to Teichert's resume database will be considered Teichert property. Teichert will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Teichert will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees. Agencies must obtain advance written approval from Teichert's recruiting function to submit resumes, and then only in conjunction with a valid fully-executed contract for service and in response to a specific job opening. Teichert will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have such agreement in place. Agency agreements will only be valid if in writing and signed by Teichert's Human Resources Representative or his/ her designee. No other Teichert employee is authorized to bind Teichert to any agreement regarding the placement of candidates by Agencies.
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Teichert, Inc.
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Jun 10, 2025