Geotechnical Project Engineer

Role: Geotechnical Project Engineer

Location: Columbus, GA (5 days per week onsite)

Duration: Direct Hire

Top Skills

• Geotechnical Analysis & Design: Soil mechanics, foundation design, interpreting field/lab data, and writing technical reports.
• Project Management & Client Communication: Managing scope, schedule, and budget; proposal writing; direct client interaction.
• Team Leadership & Quality Oversight: Supervising junior staff, reviewing data/reports, ensuring safety and quality compliance.
• Ideal candidates will have 5-8 years of experience with 1-2 years after they have achieved their P.E.
• Professional Engineer (PE) registration

Essential Roles and Responsibilities:

• Follow safety rules, guidelines and standards for all projects. Participate in pre-task planning. Report any safety issues or concerns to management.
• Provide and lead continuous quality monitoring and improvement on projects. Monitor and promote quality standards and practices.
• Provide consistent quality standards on project and proposal delivery.
• Career level, fully competent geotechnical engineering professional with responsibility for managing detailed phases of projects with moderate size and complexity.
• Independently perform a variety projects or selected segments of larger projects.
• Plan, schedule, conduct, and/or coordinate detailed phases of assigned project work.
• Work closely with senior-level project managers to gain additional project management experience for more complex and larger projects.
• Make design, engineering, and construction recommendations, adaptations and modifications.
• Prepare proposals and reports for small and large projects of varying complexity.
• Perform quality control review of proposals written by others.
• Evaluate complex laboratory and field data for inclusion in reports.
• Serve as a technical adviser to junior-level project team members.
• Interact directly with client and project team on developing scope of services, communicating project progress and findings and recommendations.
• Write and prepare routine and complex geotechnical engineering reports detailing services provided, findings, and recommendations.
• Participate in marketing, sales and business development.
• Supervise graduate, field and project engineering staff.
• Work under the supervision of a Terracon Authorized Project Reviewer.
• Begin documented mentoring and application process for Terracon Authorized Project Reviewer certification.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
• Minimum 5-8 years' experience, geotechnical engineering experience preferred.
• Master's degree in engineering preferred.
• Valid driver's license with acceptable violation history.
• Professional Engineer (PE) registration.