Remote Land Development Engineer Jobs
Remote land development engineer jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first firms and distributed civil and planning teams, with active hiring in residential development, infrastructure consulting, and municipal engineering. Employers hiring remotely right now include Atwell, Bohler, and V3 Companies. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Civil Engineering (Land Development) Manager at Southern California Edison (SCE) and help deliver the site infrastructure needed to expand, modernize, and maintain California’s electric grid. In this role, you will lead the civil engineering team responsible for land development and site civil support for transmission lines, substations, rights-of-way, access roads, and related facilities. The team’s work includes grading and drainage, hydrology and stormwater compliance, roadway and access design, erosion control, utility coordination, agency permitting, geotechnical interfaces, constructability support, and civil support during construction and emergency response. You will set priorities across a diverse portfolio, develop engineers, manage consultant support, and partner with Project Management, Environmental, Real Properties, Construction, Operations, Transmission Engineering, and Substation Engineering. The successful candidate will combine people leadership with practical site-development judgment and the ability to deliver safe, constructible, cost-effective solutions across SCE’s service territory.
Responsibilities
- Leads a select set of engineering and business initiatives to develop grid strategies, determine how the grid is planned, designed, operated, and maintained to operationalize company's strategy.
- Develops and maintains a project portfolio management system to prioritize projects, allocate resources, and monitor performance.
- Evaluates new technologies and methodologies to enhance project efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability, designing and implementing improvement projects and new systems to support site initiatives and improve operational efficiency.
- Establishes and maintains relationships with external partners, vendors, and contractors to support project delivery and innovation.
- Coaches engineering teams on professional development opportunities to enhance their skills and knowledge.
- Leads the development and implementation of a comprehensive strategy, technology and safety program to ensure company advancement toward future vision and the well-being of employees and contractors involved in engineering projects.
- Manages the engineering team that provides emergent and routine trouble-shooting support for plant technical needs. Manages various contract engineers and works with those individuals to ensure consistency and quality in design, delivery milestone dates, and cost.
- Leads the design and implementation of new equipment and cost-effective equipment modifications to help improve safety, reliability, and throughput.
- Develops goals for engineering team and assigns projects/roles to employees that translate Sr. Manager levels goals into actionable tasks.
- A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.
Minimum Qualifications
- Five or more years of combined experience performing or supervising engineering work.
- Experience in operations, production, construction or maintenance environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- California Professional Engineer (PE) license in Civil Engineering, or the ability to obtain one through comity.
- Experience leading and developing civil engineering teams, including establishing engineering standards, improving work processes, and mentoring engineers
- Civil land-development or site-development experience involving grading, drainage, hydrology, stormwater, erosion control, access roads, paving, or utility coordination.
- Experience supporting electric utility transmission, substation, distribution, rights-of-way, or other large infrastructure projects.
- Experience managing engineering consultants, contract resources, scopes of work, budgets, schedules, deliverables, and quality expectations.
- Experience coordinating with California agencies and permitting authorities, including knowledge of CEQA, stormwater compliance, and environmental permitting requirements.
- Experience using or overseeing work performed with AutoCAD Civil 3D, GIS applications, hydrologic or hydraulic analysis tools, and related civil engineering software.
Additional Information
- This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
- Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
- Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
- The primary work location for this position is Pomona, CA.
- Position will require up to 10% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
- This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation. Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.
About Southern California Edison
The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.
Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.
Nearest Major Market: Los Angeles
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Civil Engineering (Land Development) Manager at Southern California Edison (SCE) and help deliver the site infrastructure needed to expand, modernize, and maintain California’s electric grid. In this role, you will lead the civil engineering team responsible for land development and site civil support for transmission lines, substations, rights-of-way, access roads, and related facilities. The team’s work includes grading and drainage, hydrology and stormwater compliance, roadway and access design, erosion control, utility coordination, agency permitting, geotechnical interfaces, constructability support, and civil support during construction and emergency response. You will set priorities across a diverse portfolio, develop engineers, manage consultant support, and partner with Project Management, Environmental, Real Properties, Construction, Operations, Transmission Engineering, and Substation Engineering. The successful candidate will combine people leadership with practical site-development judgment and the ability to deliver safe, constructible, cost-effective solutions across SCE’s service territory.
Responsibilities
- Leads a select set of engineering and business initiatives to develop grid strategies, determine how the grid is planned, designed, operated, and maintained to operationalize company's strategy.
- Develops and maintains a project portfolio management system to prioritize projects, allocate resources, and monitor performance.
- Evaluates new technologies and methodologies to enhance project efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability, designing and implementing improvement projects and new systems to support site initiatives and improve operational efficiency.
- Establishes and maintains relationships with external partners, vendors, and contractors to support project delivery and innovation.
- Coaches engineering teams on professional development opportunities to enhance their skills and knowledge.
- Leads the development and implementation of a comprehensive strategy, technology and safety program to ensure company advancement toward future vision and the well-being of employees and contractors involved in engineering projects.
- Manages the engineering team that provides emergent and routine trouble-shooting support for plant technical needs. Manages various contract engineers and works with those individuals to ensure consistency and quality in design, delivery milestone dates, and cost.
- Leads the design and implementation of new equipment and cost-effective equipment modifications to help improve safety, reliability, and throughput.
- Develops goals for engineering team and assigns projects/roles to employees that translate Sr. Manager levels goals into actionable tasks.
- A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.
Minimum Qualifications
- Five or more years of combined experience performing or supervising engineering work.
- Experience in operations, production, construction or maintenance environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- California Professional Engineer (PE) license in Civil Engineering, or the ability to obtain one through comity.
- Experience leading and developing civil engineering teams, including establishing engineering standards, improving work processes, and mentoring engineers
- Civil land-development or site-development experience involving grading, drainage, hydrology, stormwater, erosion control, access roads, paving, or utility coordination.
- Experience supporting electric utility transmission, substation, distribution, rights-of-way, or other large infrastructure projects.
- Experience managing engineering consultants, contract resources, scopes of work, budgets, schedules, deliverables, and quality expectations.
- Experience coordinating with California agencies and permitting authorities, including knowledge of CEQA, stormwater compliance, and environmental permitting requirements.
- Experience using or overseeing work performed with AutoCAD Civil 3D, GIS applications, hydrologic or hydraulic analysis tools, and related civil engineering software.
Additional Information
- This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
- Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
- Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
- The primary work location for this position is Pomona, CA.
- Position will require up to 10% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
- This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation. Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.
About Southern California Edison
The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.
Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.
Nearest Major Market: Los Angeles
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote land development engineer jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or a related field
- Proficiency in AutoCAD Civil 3D and related design software
- Experience preparing grading, drainage, and utility plans
- Knowledge of local subdivision regulations and entitlement processes
- Engineer-in-Training or Professional Engineer licensure preferred
- Ability to coordinate submittals across multiple reviewing agencies
Tips for Your Remote Land Development Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote land development engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your experience with AutoCAD Civil 3D, grading, and entitlement work and apply directly without sifting through non-remote listings.
Show your async communication skills upfront
Remote land development teams coordinate subdivision plans, drainage reports, and agency responses entirely through written channels. Add a brief note to your resume or cover letter describing how you've managed permit submittals or client reviews asynchronously, using email threads, shared markups, or project management tools.
Build a shareable remote project portfolio
Compile two or three completed site development or subdivision projects you can share digitally, including grading plans, stormwater exhibits, and any agency approval letters. Remote hiring managers can't see your desk, so a well-organized portfolio of permit-ready deliverables does the heavy lifting your in-person presence would otherwise provide.
Target firms already running distributed civil teams
Look for consultancies and developers that explicitly list multiple state licenses or describe multi-market project delivery in their job postings. These companies have already built the remote infrastructure, cloud-based CAD workflows, and async review processes that make remote land development engineering practical for day-to-day project work.
Remote Land Development Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote land development engineer job?
Target companies with distributed civil or planning teams, particularly infrastructure consultancies, residential developers, and land planning firms that have already built remote workflows. Remote employers screen for proficiency in AutoCAD Civil 3D, strong written communication for async coordination, and the ability to manage grading, drainage, and entitlement tasks independently without in-person oversight. A portfolio showing completed subdivision or site development projects you drove from intake to permit approval gives you a clear edge.
Which companies hire remote land development engineers?
Employers currently hiring remote land development engineers include Atwell, Bohler, and V3 Companies, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first civil consulting firms and larger residential developers with distributed project teams make up the bulk of these openings, particularly in residential, infrastructure, and municipal planning sectors.
Can you get a remote land development engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level land development engineer roles are harder to land because employers expect you to manage CAD deliverables, agency submittals, and client communication independently from day one. Your best path is through remote-friendly small consultancies or entry-level design roles where you can show AutoCAD Civil 3D proficiency, familiarity with grading and stormwater concepts, and academic or internship project samples that demonstrate you can produce permit-ready drawings with minimal hand-holding.
Do you need a degree for remote land development engineer jobs?
Usually, but not always. Most remote land development engineer roles expect a civil engineering or related degree, and many require an EIT credential or a PE license for senior-level work. That said, remote employers in design-heavy roles will weigh a strong AutoCAD Civil 3D portfolio, demonstrated experience with subdivision or site grading plans, and familiarity with local entitlement and permitting processes heavily alongside, or sometimes instead of, a formal degree.
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