Engineering and surveying firm for water, energy, and infrastructure projects
McKim & Creed is a 501–1,000-person engineering and surveying firm anchored in civil, structural, and MEP design across water, energy, and transportation infrastructure. The tech stack is classically heavy on Autodesk (AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Revit, BIM 360, Infraworks) and Bentley tools, with domain-specific hydraulic modeling (WaterGEMS, WaterCAD) and power systems analysis (ETAP, PSS/E, OpenDSS). Active hiring is heavily skewed toward engineering roles (120 out of 130 open positions), with notable emphasis on senior-level staff, signaling aggressive capacity-building on complex design work.
Notable leadership hires: Survey Crew Chief
McKim & Creed is an employee-owned engineering and surveying firm serving energy, transportation, federal, water, land development, and building markets. The firm operates 10+ regional offices across the U.S. (North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Ohio) and maintains expertise across mechanical, electrical, plumbing, civil and structural engineering, landscape architecture, and industrial design-build. Core technical capabilities include airborne and mobile LiDAR scanning, unmanned aerial systems, subsurface utility engineering, hydrographic surveying, and conventional surveying. The firm specializes in water and wastewater treatment, reclaimed water, sustainable and renewable design, trenchless technology, and system optimization for energy reduction.
Primary tools are AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Revit, Bentley MicroStation, and BIM 360. The firm also uses ArcGIS for geospatial work, Bluebeam Revu for markup and collaboration, and domain-specific packages like WaterGEMS and WaterCAD for hydraulic modeling.
Active projects span water and wastewater treatment, water distribution, subsurface utility engineering, utility-scale battery storage and solar PV systems, and AI integration with BIM and Revit workflows. The firm is also developing AI-driven solutions to optimize engineering workflows and improve predictive modeling.
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