Ground Senior Engineer

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AECOM’s Enterprise Capabilities team is looking for a Ground Senior Engineer to join our team in Madrid.

About Enterprise Capabilities

Fundamental to our Think and Act Globally strategy and digital adoption, Enterprise Capabilities (EC) is AECOM’s primary vehicle for workshare. Operating across geographic boundaries and time-zones, EC partners with regional and Global Business Line project teams to provide technical expertise, accelerate delivery and keep AECOM competitive in the industry. 

With a team of over 3000 technical professionals located across nine countries and remote technical anchors, EC teams are trusted to deliver high-quality, specialist services that help to fill capability gaps, resourcing needs and technical constraints on projects of all scopes and sizes.  

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Job Description

We are currently recruiting for a Ground Senior Engineer to join our ambitious and experienced team. We are working on stages as early as feasibility studies up to detailed designs on a wide range of projects. Our clients are from the private and public sector and include long term Framework Agreements with numerous Local Authorities together with Design and Build commissions for many major Contractors. Our office has an established track record of successfully delivering roadway designs for many years, throughout the USA and Australia not to mention Canada or Middle East. You may have the opportunity to work on some of the most iconic Transportation projects, being part of a diverse and multicultural team for the Europe Global Delivery Center (Poland/Spain).

Here is what you will do:

• Works as part of a ground and tunnelling engineering team with other engineers at the same functional level that can be from different EC offices (Poland, Spain, India..). Undertakes non-routine, medium complex projects supported by EC.

• As a Senior Geotechnical Engineer, you will be responsible for leading and managing all aspects of mid- to large-scale projects, including managing subsurface investigations, conducting engineering analysis, preparing geotechnical design recommendations, and overseeing design and reporting to fulfill client requirements and project goals. You will also mentor junior engineers and foster team connections.

• Coordinates and leads small design teams focused on ground engineering design (as bearing capacity for foundations, earthworks, stability and settlement analysis, etc.) and tunnelling for a specific project.

• Should be able to independently develop recommendations, reports (of course with guidance from our Sr Engineers), and calculations and meet deadlines.

• Conducts noncomplex value engineering evaluations, determining alternative designs, materials, construction techniques.

• Works autonomously within established procedures and practices, with latitude to determine work priorities.

• Performs quality control review of design calculations or drawings, including participation in interdisciplinary reviews.

• Ensures that project technical goals/milestones/ budgets are met.

• Prepares complex project deliverables using a team of junior technical and support staff, providing supervision to and mentoring less experienced staff.

Qualifications

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Proven track record of working on ground and tunneling engineering designs and collaborating with international and multi-cultural teams (> 8 years) for Transportation and Water Projects.

• Experience with international regulations and standards.

• Experience in planning and managing subsurface investigations.

• Experienced in