Staff Geotechnical Engineer

Company Description

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Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Staff Geotechnical Engineer to be located in New Orleans, LA.

Field or Project Locations: Louisiana and Texas

Job Summary:

This position is for a Geotechnical Engineer (EIT or new PE) with 2 to 5 years of relevant experience. You must demonstrate your competency and logic in geotechnical design, analyses, and engineering judgment for each project task. Your approach to project tasks should be positive, professional, and client focused. Your work ethic should strive to produce complete designs supported by accurate analyses based on sound geotechnical principles. Strong leadership skills are needed in this role to assist project managers and lead junior staff to complete project objectives.  AECOM has the resources available to promote and grow your knowledge and skills set to foster a long-term and rewarding career.

The Geotechnical Engineering Team in Louisiana is unique, as it works on a variety of large, high-profile projects for a variety of industries including Water, Transportation, Coastal, Environmental, and Construction. This involves site investigations, soil laboratory testing interpretations, all manner of geotechnical analyses and calculations, rehabilitation designs, alternatives analyses, etc. The Louisiana team is supported by a group of geotechnical professionals, with 2 to 30+ years of experience, and who meet remotely for weekly department calls. Your work week will consist of completing independent project related tasks and collaborating with multiple discipline design and project teams. Your work week will consist of completing independent project related tasks and collaborating with multiple discipline design and project teams. You must have very strong communication skills and the ability to work with a team across the nation and, possibly, around the world. You will be mentored by senior and mid-level geotechnical professionals which is a key component of this position and requires daily, in person, in office, collaboration. This dynamic work environment is intended to foster your professional growth and technical excellence. Future benefits such as flexible hours and flexibility to work from home or remote from office may be available but are not guaranteed for this position. This role offers exciting opportunities to support the design and construction of mega, landmark, projects that will be completed over the next 5 to 10+ years in Louisiana and Texas.

Candidate will, under supervision and mentorship:

• Participate in field assignments that will include soil and rock borings, test pits, CPT soundings, geophysical testing; geotechnical instrumentation design and construction; and inspection of the construction of geotechnical features like retaining walls, foundations, dams, levees, floodwalls, and tunnels.
• Have the opportunity to travel and work in locations within the state of Louisiana and Texas (potentially other states within the USA and around the world).
• Mentor and train junior geotechnical engineers.
• Design shallow and deep foundations, earth retaining structures, ground improvement, flood risk reduction structures, embankments and cut slopes, and both soft and hard rock tunnels.
• Develop geotechnical design parameters based on field and laboratory data results.
• Prepare and review Geotechnical Reports, Alternative Analysis Reports, etc.
• Use computer programs including GeoStudio, UTexas4, LPILE, GROUP, SHAFT, Plaxis, FLAC, Settle3D, and MathCAD for geotechnical analyses.
• Review design plans and specifications and for compliance with geotechnical recommendations and communicate with multiple disciplines and provide design improvement recommendations.
• Have the opportunity to meet with clients and participate in proposals.

You will have the opportunity to work toward obtaining the AECOM Project Management Certification, if you want to go into Project Management. This is not a requirement or even necessarily a preference, but it would be encouraged after a year of working at AECOM and 5 to 10 years in Geotechnical Engineering, only if you are interested.

Candidates should be prepared to travel a minimum of 25% or field work at active construction sites to support ot