Job Description - Geotechnical Engineer

Exciting
and highly rewarding opportunity for a Senior Geotechnical Engineer looking to join the team in Minneapolis!  This is a hybrid position with working three days in the office and two days remote.


Responsibilities:

  • Provide technical leadership and engineering
    oversight for geotechnical investigations, analyses, and designs related to tunnels,
    shafts, trenchless installations, deep excavations, retaining systems, and
    other underground infrastructure projects

  • As the technical authority, guide project teams
    in evaluating subsurface conditions, assessing geotechnical risks, and
    developing innovative, practical, and cost-effective solutions for complex
    engineering challenges

  • Lead projects and coordinate with civil,
    structural, water, transportation, survey, and construction teams to deliver
    high-quality technical solutions that meet client objectives, schedules, and
    budgets

  • Oversee geotechnical investigations and
    analysis

  • Build client relationships
  • Assist with business development
  • Provide leadership during construction phase
    including review of RFIs, submittals, value engineering evaluations, claims
    analysis, field observations, and technical consultation during project
    execution

  • Mentor/train junior staff
  • Assist with establishment of technical
    standards, improvement of engineering processes, and support of strategic
    growth initiatives

  • Serve as quality manager on major projects

 

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s
    degree in civil engineering (geotechnical emphasis preferred)

  • 8+
    years of progressive geotechnical engineering experience

  • Professional
    Engineer (PE) license, or the ability to obtain Minnesota registration
    within an agreed-upon timeframe

  • Expert
    in subsurface investigations, soil and rock mechanics, geotechnical
    analysis, and technical report development

  • Significant
    technical experience with underground infrastructure, including tunnels,
    shafts, trenchless installations, deep excavations, or comparable heavy
    civil projects

  • Experience
    evaluating excavation support, earth retention, slope stability,
    groundwater control, seepage, settlement, foundations, and geotechnical
    construction risks

  • Strong
    understanding of underground construction methods, constructability
    considerations, and the relationship between design assumptions and field
    conditions

  • Experience
    providing technical oversight, performing quality reviews, and guiding
    less-experienced professionals

  • Ability
    to travel as needed for investigations, site visits, construction support,
    client meetings, and project coordination 


Preferred Requirements:

  • Master's degree or higher in Geotechnical
    Engineering, Geological Engineering, or a closely related discipline

  • Advanced experience in tunnel design, shaft
    design, microtunneling, pipe jacking, horizontal directional drilling, conventional
    tunneling, or other trenchless construction methods

  • Expert in rock mechanics, ground improvement,
    instrumentation and monitoring, movement and vibration assessment, groundwater
    control, waterproofing, or slope and bluff stabilization

  • Experience with numerical modeling and advanced
    geotechnical analysis software

  • Experience serving as Engineer of Record,
    technical lead, or senior technical reviewer on large or complex geotechnical
    projects

  • Experience supporting transportation, transit,
    water/wastewater, government, mining, or other underground infrastructure
    programs

  • Experience developing geotechnical baseline
    reports, geotechnical data reports, geotechnical design reports, risk
    assessments, and construction specifications

  • Active involvement in professional
    organizations/technical committees related to geotechnical, underground,
    tunneling, foundation, or trenchless engineering 

 

Salary is commensurate with experience.


Successful applicants must be authorized to work in the USA
without sponsorship.


All
qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard
to protected veteran status, disability, race, color, religion, sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

 

Please contact Laura
Harrison for further information!

 

www.harrisonconsultingsolutions.com

 

517-906-6926



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