Which cities are the best for civil engineers to find jobs and work?

Question

I am looking into NYC, Houston, Phoenix, San Antonio, and Dallas. Which city would you recommend? Which ones have great job markets for civil engineers?

Answer 1

For international jobs, hottest place on earth besides Dubai , is Panama.

Answer 2

I'm currently aware of at least one structural firm in the Dallas area looking for people.  (Additionally, there are several firms around Nashville who would be interested, if you're not greatly opposed to TN.)

Good structural engineering candidates are hard to find these days.  If you are leaning in that direction and are precise, methodical, and have a good work ethic, I don't think you'll have any problem finding a job, no matter what city you'd like to live in.  Drop me an e-mail and I would be happy to suggest a few places you might want to send a resume as you approach the end of your senior year.

Answer 3

I think that the question is funny,why?

because every place could be better than another place if we try to using a accurate standard of civil engineering and we attempt to generate a material with high quality.

meanwhile today's , city and university could not guaranty for a good structure, in the manner the best structure has a good design and best material furthermore a good executive.

thanks

Answer 4

Really depends on what kind of civil engineering you plan on doing. Right now, especially in Texas, transportation and land development engineers are not being recruited. IN fact, TxDOT has stopped hiring engineers and stopped all of it's road development projects completely.

Phoenix is just as bad. No land development or transportation jobs there. Can't comment on the other cities, but civil engineering jobs in the private sector (higher paying) are not that stable. Public sector (poor paying) jobs working as a project manager and etc are more stable. BUt, to work for the government, you usually need 6-years of post grad experience and your PE.

Answer 5

Kansas City has plenty of job openings.  Companies were practically attacking us at the University job fairs.  I've seen entire classes recruited by one company.  

Traffic, structural, etc; civil engineers have plenty of opportunities.  You've got Burns and MacDonald. Black and Veach, Army Corp of Engineers, HNTB, Kiewit, AeroTEK, Honeywell, Terracon, Henderson Engineers, and the list goes on and on...  If you can't find a job here, you aren't looking.