Infrastructure engineering firm spanning civil, utility, and municipal projects
CobbFendley is a 40+ year old engineering services firm operating across 501–1,000 employees, rooted in Houston but working regionally across water, wastewater, transportation, and utility infrastructure. The tech stack is dominated by domain-specific design and survey tools (AutoCAD, Civil 3D, MicroStation, Trimble, GIS) with enterprise systems for project management (Smartsheet, Deltek Vantagepoint) and financial control (SAP) — a profile typical of design-heavy infrastructure firms, not software companies. Hiring remains primarily engineering-focused, with reported pain around job cost tracking and project profitability, suggesting ERP and project accounting systems are not yet mature enough to meet their complexity.
CobbFendley delivers infrastructure solutions across civil engineering, surveying, land development, municipal services, power delivery, telecommunications, and right-of-way acquisition. The firm operates regionally across multiple states, handling projects from concept through completion for both public and private sector clients. Active project work includes water and wastewater system design, roadway drainage, and subsurface utility engineering. The organization is structured around multidisciplinary teams that combine design, planning, and field coordination expertise, with stated challenges around scaling project delivery on complex, deadline-driven work and tightening project margins.
AutoCAD, Civil 3D, MicroStation, Trimble Access, Trimble Business Center, Bluebeam, and GIS / ArcFM for geospatial work. Project management runs on Smartsheet; financials on SAP and Deltek Vantagepoint.
Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 1980 and operates across multiple states with regional focus, currently hiring within the United States only.
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