Careers

Why join the Sands Decker team?

We’re always on the lookout for extraordinary people to add to the Sands Decker team. We work in a wide variety of markets, including retail, restaurant, education (K-12 and higher education), municipal, healthcare, and more! We’re proud to call Ohio home, but are licensed in eight states. Our dynamic team members engage in exciting projects with forward-thinking clients, and you can too!

What are you waiting for? Come work with us! Sands Decker offers A great company, with great people, delivering great projects.

We are committed to providing team members with a comprehensive benefits program that provides options to lead healthy and productive lives. Our small firm atmosphere offers profound opportunities to be productive, to learn, and to have fun. Our team works hard and enjoys their success.

Insurance

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

FSA & HSA

Flexible Spending, Health Savings Accounts, and HSA Employer Contribution

PTO

Paid Vacation and Sick Leave

Paid Holidays

Retirement

401(k) Plan with company match

Life & Disability Insurance

100% Employer Paid

Birthday Reward and Recognition

Company paid professional dues/membership fees

Education Assistance

Employee referral program

Monthly Lunch and Learn events

Monthly onsite/offsite fun events

Professional/Management Mentoring Program

Show your pride with company-provided logo apparel

Survey team members annual boot allowance

Design Technician - Learn More

Description:
Sands Decker is seeking an experienced CIVIL DESIGN TECHNICIAN to work in our Columbus, Lancaster, or Zanesville office. The ideal candidate is an experienced CAD Technician who can work independently. We’re an innovative and technology driven company and our Civil Engineering group is looking for an individual that is highly motivated and enjoys learning new technologies.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Candidate must be able to communicate well with our staff as well as clients and contractors. Position requires experience in AutoCAD Civil 3D. Work includes preparation of civil engineering drawings for site development including storm water drainage, sanitary sewers, waterlines, storm sewers, and supporting design information. Must have education and understanding of State of Ohio and local agency design and approval requirements.
Skills and other necessary requirements:

Must hold a current valid driver’s license

Be able to work with others and as a team player

Understands the need to complete work within deadlines

Must be accountable and dependable

Have the ability to work with outside contractors/clients in a team atmosphere

Must be detail oriented and have the ability to enter data accurately

Must have good communication skills

BS degree in Civil Engineering – NOT required, but it’s a positive

Sands Decker is an equal opportunity employer and has a relaxed, business-casual work environment. If you are interested in this position, please submit the form below or send your resume and cover letter to info@sandsdecker.com. Or by mail: Sands Decker H.R. Manager, 1495 Old Henderson Road, Columbus, OH 43220. Contingent upon the applicant completing drug screening and background checks.

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“Sands Decker has an environment that encourages collaboration between our principals, managers, and staff. We encourage our staff to work as a team to focus on the client’s needs, not the bottom line. Our staff collaborate and solve problems together, and as a result, it fosters a strong sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.”

- Scott Sands, P.E. President

“As a member of the Sands Decker team since 2003, I have had the opportunity to work on projects ranging from an outdoor privy at a local State Park to a 1.2 MGD Waste Water Treatment Facility in the Bahamas and just about everything in between. Each team member is exposed to all aspects of every size and type of project we do, from surveying through to construction. I have had the opportunity to collaborate with a variety of clients and professionals…developers, school districts, municipalities and regulatory agencies of all sizes, architects, structural and mechanical engineers. Sands Decker has created a dynamic work environment where every day brings a new challenge.”

- Loretta Armentrout, Project Manager

“In my 20 years at Sands Decker, I've found it to be a great place to work because of many factors, but mainly the casual, relaxed atmosphere that a small company offers. It’s nice to be on a team with long time co-workers that have become like family over the years.”

- Kathy Zalmon, Administrative/Accounting

“After working for large corporate design firms for over a decade, it’s refreshing to truly care for our clients, rather than measure success by the bottom line.”

- Mark Antonetz, P.E., Principal

“I like the atmosphere of the company over the 25 years I’ve been here. I feel like I work with family.”

- Rick Cox, Project Manager

“The people of this company are its greatest strength. We have a highly collaborative atmosphere and each person is willing to chip in and help each other. With a broad range of experience, Sands Decker offers a team approach to solving problems.”

- Ben Adams, P.S., E.I., Project Engineer

“Over the past fifteen plus years I have consulted with Sands Decker on many projects. Now, I am part of the Sands Decker Team. ”

- Theresa Kanavel, Senior Project Manager

“My experience at Sands Decker has been nothing but positive. The other firms that I have worked at did not allow me excel as a CAD tech as much as Sands Decker has allowed. The office is full of people with great experience who are also very happy to teach.”

- Scott Miller, Survey Technician

“I am truly grateful to work for such a great company! I really appreciate the flexibility you have allowed me in order to pursue my degree in civil engineering and most recently during COVID.”

- Mackenzie Yoke, Design Technician

It is the policy of Sands Decker to undertake affirmative action consistent with its obligations as a Federal contractor, for minorities and women, for persons with disabilities, and for special disabled veterans, Vietnam era veterans, and any other veterans who served on active duty during a war or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized. Sands Decker commits itself to apply every good faith effort to achieve prompt and full utilization of minorities in all segments of its workforce where deficiencies exist. These efforts conform to all legal and regulatory requirements, and are consistent with our standards of quality and excellence.

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