Position: Senior Tunnel Engineer (Geotechnical)
Locations: Washington, DC
This opportunity:
Working with my client in Washington DC who are searching for a Senior Geotechnical & Tunneling Engineer, Be involved in projects with our Geotechnical & Tunneling Team, take on a leadership role, and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client's objectives and solves their challenges.
Your Impact
- Manage a team of geotechnical and tunneling engineers in the DC metro area including tracking active projects and budgets, delegating tasks, coordinating across disciplines within project teams, coordinating with subconsultants, reviewing work, and providing professional guidance.
- Contribute to proposal and cost estimate development and track business development opportunities, both internally and externally.
- Perform professional geotechnical engineering work including design for tunneling projects, subsurface investigations, soil foundation engineering, settlement analysis, soil erosion, lateral earth pressures, geological hazards, underground water, slope stability, and operations to determine conformance with applicable rules, standards, construction, or operating permits for commercial, industrial, building, environmental, infrastructure, and transportation projects.
- Provide guidance with collecting, compiling, and analyzing data from the physical work site, soil/water/sludge/rock samples, surveys, blueprints, GIS data, subsurface utility information, maps, hydrologic analysis, geotechnical data, and other matrices for project development, design, and construction.
- Apply high-level geotechnical engineering techniques and processes to identify improvements for various infrastructure project phases including concept development, preliminary design, final design, procurement, construction, and operation.
- Develop construction plans, specifications, and cost estimates; preparing construction safety and phasing plans, and updating infrastructure layout plans that require coordination with owners, other disciplines, sub-consultants, and clients.
- Interact with regulatory agencies, subcontractors, drillers, and clients in a confident and professional manner.
What you would need:
- Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering with Geotechnical Engineering focus
- 10+ years of Tunnel experience
- Virginia, Washington D.C., or Maryland PE registration. (preferred)
- Effective self-leadership with attention to detail, results orientation, and managing multiple priorities in a dynamic work environment.
- Master's Degree in Civil Engineering
