Geotechnical Project Engineer (Transportation)

Description

• Mentoring and coaching key project team members to execute the projects.
• Plan, schedule, conduct, and/or coordinates engineering work involving conventional engineering practices but may include a variety of complex features such as conflicting design requirements.
• Identify geotechnical risk items that may adversely impact design and/or construction costs/schedules.
• Coordinates with lead project accountant for financial management of business intelligence, invoicing and collections.
• Responsible for managing the team in conceptualizing the initial design and/or investigative approach for an entire major transportation project or segments of a large transportation project.
• Provide review of projects requiring complex and innovative investigation techniques and supervise the analysis and formulation of recommendations in written reports to clients; provides technical review of reports.
• Lead safety efforts for the team and ensure the team follows safety rules and guidelines.
• Lead technical training and make informed decisions based upon state-of-the-art technology issues.
• Providing geotechnical design recommendations and supporting documentation for earthwork, considering planned cuts/fills, for purposes of estimating construction quantities, assessing potential impacts to existing or planned project improvements and providing design/construction guidance.
• Monitor activities, allocate resources, and assign tasks to ensure targets are met.
• Development of Site Characterization reports to include a geotechnical/geological narrative of site conditions along the alignment for purposes of identifying difficult ground conditions and/or project risks.
• Geotechnical analysis to support retaining wall recommendations for individual retaining structures or for groups of retaining structures with the same general conditions (i.e. height, subgrade conditions, geometry, etc.). All analyses should be performed in accordance with code requirements.
• Promote continuous quality monitoring and improvement on projects. Ensure best practices are being followed and hold team members accountable for quality control standards.
• Geotechnical design recommendations and supporting documentation for bridge and wall foundations (shallow and deep).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Master's degree preferred
• Transportation experience with DOTs is required.
• Professional Engineer (PE) registration.
• Rotational stability
• Senior level engineering professional providing technical direction required for production and completion of unique or complex projects.
• Minimum 8-11 years’ experience.
• Valid driver’s license with acceptable violation history.
• External stability analysis (bearing resistance, sliding, overturning, eccentricity)

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance