Civil Engineers

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics In demand
Perform engineering duties in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building structures and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, and water and sewage systems.

What a civil engineer does

Become a civil engineer

If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good civil engineer

  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
  • Reading work related information.
  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
  • Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
  • Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.

Discover what you could earn in Washington

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Civil Engineer job outlook

  • There are 13,980 workers in this occupation in Washington.
  • There are 1,251 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.

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Education needed

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

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