About this role
Community Development Civil Engineer
Las Cruces, NM
Design infrastructure that helps New Mexico communities thrive.
Build a career with visible local impact. You will help deliver facilities, roads, neighborhoods, parks, and public spaces that support communities across New Mexico.
Your Opportunity
Join our Community Development team and work on a broad mix of public and private projects throughout New Mexico. In this role, you will collaborate with local and regional project managers, designers, and engineers to move projects from early concepts and feasibility through permitting and construction documents.
This position is well suited to an engineer who enjoys solving practical infrastructure challenges, working across disciplines, and seeing how thoughtful design improves the places where people live, work, and gather.
Why This Role?
Meaningful New Mexico work. Contribute to infrastructure and development projects serving both urban and rural communities.
Variety of Work. Work across skill sets including design of site development, roadways, grading & drainage, utility services, and erosion control.
Concept through Construction. Help evaluate feasibility, prepare construction-ready documents, and provide construction administrative services.
Collaborative Team Environment. Work alongside experienced project managers, designers, EITs, and multidisciplinary partners. We have experts, mentors, and peers for collaboration and support throughout your career.
Influence. Facilitate refinement of design details, production workflows, and technical standards.
What will you do?
Design civil infrastructure. Prepare designs for site layout and geometry, grading, drainage, roadways, paving, water, sewer, and erosion control.
Support public and private clients. Contribute to public works, industrial, commercial, and subdivision projects.
Develop complete project deliverables. Prepare calculations, exhibits, three-dimensional civil models, quantities, cost estimates, schedules, specifications, and construction documents.
Shape early project decisions. Research existing conditions, identify site constraints, assess feasibility, develop concepts, and communicate civil engineering considerations to the project team.
Coordinate approvals. Prepare submission packages and coordinate follow-up with agencies throughout review and approval.
Collaborate across the team. Participate in project coordination and communicate clearly about assignments, technical issues, schedule, and budget.
Deliver quality work. Check your work, support project-level QA/QC, and help maintain accurate, coordinated documents.
Improve our practice. Contribute ideas that strengthen standards, production workflows, modeling practices, and design details.
What you bring
Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or related engineering discipline
Professional Engineer licensure
Five or more years of civil or land development design experience
Strong foundation in civil engineering design and project document production
Experience using AutoCAD Civil 3D for roadway, utility, or site design
Ability to manage assignments and deliver quality work within established scope, schedule, and budget expectations
Clear written and verbal communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving
Initiative and sound judgment, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team
A valid driver’s license and a good driving record
Experience that will help You Succeed
Experience delivering projects in New Mexico and working with local and funding agencies
Public works experience, particularly in grading, roadway, site, water, sewer, or drainage design
Industrial, commercial, or subdivision design experience
Experience preparing entitlement, permitting, and construction-document submissions
Interest in mentoring developing staff and contributing to team standards and quality
The Impact of Your Work
Strong communities are thoughtfully planned, designed, and delivered. Our Community Development work supports vibrant economic centers, resilient neighborhoods, and welcoming places that feel like home. If you want your engineering experience to create visible, lasting value across New Mexico, we welcome your application.
Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
About Stantec
Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.
Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).
Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements
Primary
Location
United States | NM | Albuquerque
Other Locations: United States | NM | Las Cruces
Organization: BC-1720 CommDev-US Southwest
Employee Status: Regular
Management Level: Individual contributor
Business Justification: New Position
Travel: No
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 16/10/2026 05:10:17
Req ID: 1008354
Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. At Stantec we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team.
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