Project Geotechnical Engineer

Delve Underground is a leader in underground and heavy civil engineering serving the transportation, water, wastewater, and energy industries. Specializing in tunnel design, we provide practical solutions to the most challenging underground problems. We offer comprehensive design, construction management, and construction claims services, with expertise extending across a wide range of engineering disciplines, including civil, structural, and geotechnical engineering. Our primary focus is to make a significant impact on the advancement of infrastructure projects, which in turn shape and enhance the communities we serve. Founded in 1954, as Jacobs Associates, Delve Underground is an employee-owned firm with 25 offices and 350 team members throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

We want our employees to make a career doing what they love to do. We encourage an entrepreneurial spirit and help our team members forge their own path within the company. We support their efforts to stay on the cutting edge of technology while fostering a great work-life balance. In addition to working hard, we also have fun. We socialize and celebrate achievements at summer picnics, holiday parties, and company outings.

Benefits: Full Benefits Program consisting of Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, FSA or HSA, EAP, 401(k), ESOP, and company stock ownership program, 9 Paid Holidays, generous paid-time-off program, Work from home flexibility, and Health & Wellness Reimbursement

Pay Rate: $84,564 - $153,330

Project Geotechnical Engineer

Delve Underground has an immediate opening for a Geotechnical Engineer with 3-10 years of relevant experience to join our Pacific Northwest team (Portland, OR or Seattle, WA) delivering tunnels, trenchless, underground facilities, and water infrastructure projects. This position offers a great opportunity for a motivated, detail oriented, team-centric candidate to work on diverse jobs, from local pipeline crossings to water & wastewater projects across the country. Preferably, the candidate will have experience in one or more of the following areas: geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering, excavation support design, tunneling, or trenchless technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Perform geotechnical engineering analyses and calculations for tunnels, shafts, foundations, retaining structures, landslide and slope stability, ground improvement, and seismic evaluations.
• Evaluate and characterize soil and rock ground conditions for engineering design.
• Preparation of technical reports and calculation packages.
• Management of small projects and tasks on larger projects.
• Oversight of staff engineers and geologists on field assignments and geotechnical analyses
• Occasional field inspection of construction activities.
• Work as integral member of a team on complex, multi-discipline projects.
• Demonstrate good writing and communication skills to work with internal staff and clients.

Qualifications:

• MS or PhD in Geotechnical or Geological Engineering
• Ability to manage a number of concurrent assignments and priorities and supervise junior staff on project tasks.
• Strong analytical and technical communication skills.
• Familiarity with seismic hazards evaluations such as liquefaction, lateral spreading analyses, and performing site specific seismic hazard analyses
• Familiarity with soil structure interaction analyses
• Familiarity with tunnel construction methods and trenchless technologies
• Familiarity with geotechnical analysis software including Rocscience suite, Shoring Suite or similar programs; familiarity with FLAC, ABAQUS, Plaxis, or RS2 considered an asset.
• Professional Engineering (PE) registration in the states of Oregon or Washington, or be able to obtain within 1 year from the date of hire.
• Willingness to travel for short-term assignments.

ARE YOU READY TO JOIN OUR TEAM?

If you feel that you would be right for this position, please fill out our initial application so that we can review your information. We look forward to meeting you!

Delve Underground is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and will make all employment related decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Compensation reflects the cost of labor across our US geographic markets. Pay is based on several factors including market location, experience, knowledge, and skills.

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