Local recruitment: Project Manager - Utilities Engineering

CivilGrid

Kansas City, MO, USA 🇺🇸

Home-based/Remote

Company Overview

CivilGrid is a venture-backed SaaS construction tech company building the “Google Maps for the Underground.” Come help us disrupt a $4.7T US industry segment that desperately needs innovation. This opportunity has tremendous upside as it scales.

CivilGrid aggregates public and proprietary utility, geotechnical, environmental, and jurisdictional data. The consolidated information is sold via our collaborative SaaS mapping platform to engineers and developers who need it to make early-stage decisions on real estate and infrastructure projects.

Real time data access reduces labor and project delays, accelerates decision making and reduces project risk. Collaborative features ensure faster information flow and decisioning inside and outside the organization and better project insight retention over time.

** If you apply, please follow the Application Requirements at the bottom of this posting. **

Position Description

This is a full-time hybrid role in the Greater Kansas City area with occasional travel for team offsites. You must be available to co-work in downtown KC.

CivilGrid’s Data team uncovers and manages the foundational datasets underlying the CivilGrid app. In this role, you’ll be a key early hire for a new group within the Data team laser-focused on delivering insights from engineering record drawings and as-builts.

In this role, you will:

  • Lead and coordinate digitization tasks and workflows, ensuring alignment on timelines and priorities with stakeholders.
  • Provide detailed markup and interpretation of utility engineering records and as-builts.
  • Conduct quality assurance on digitized deliverables.
  • Manage subcontractors, internal teams, and customers to facilitate smooth project execution and process scaling.
  • Collaborate closely with Data and Customer Success leadership to refine operational processes.

This role is ideal for someone who can bring structure, operational excellence, and practical utility engineering experience to a fast-moving startup environment.

Who You Are

  • 2+ years experience in project management within subsurface utility engineering (SUE).
  • Preferred: Additional background as a field technician and/or utilities research coordinator.
  • Proficiency with project management tools and techniques (e.g., task tracking, stakeholder reporting, timeline management).
  • Strong ability to interpret civil engineering plans, record drawings, and as-builts
  • Comfortable with GIS and/or CAD software (ArcGIS, QGIS, AutoCAD, MicroStation)
  • Process-driven and always looking to optimize
  • Organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable working remotely with minimal supervision
  • Excited to work in a fast-moving startup environment – you value autonomy, creativity, and impact

Application Requirements

Please apply on LinkedIn AND additionally send your resume and a brief statement of interest to careers (at) civilgrid (dot) com. You must send this email to be considered for the position. You’re welcome to use AI tools as assistants, but we’re looking for your own thinking, voice, and experiences — not generic output.

In your statement of interest (max 200 words), tell us about a time you improved or innovated on an existing engineering process. Describe how you identified the pain point, developed a solution, and achieved buy-in from teammates, leadership, clients, etc.

29 days remaining

Apply by 15 September, 2025

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IHE Delft - MSc in Water and Sustainable Development