Geotechnical Engineer, Senior - Design Build (Alternative Delivery)

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Responsibilities

• Technical Direction: Provide geotechnical technical direction on multidisciplinary alternate delivery projects (DB, PDB, etc.)
• Reporting: Deliver Geotechnical Engineering Design Reports, Construction Impact Assessments, Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring Plans, Response Action Plans, design calculations, drawings, specifications
• Innovation: Be part of the GHD geostructural team's evolvement towards new modern innovation ways to deliver project delivery models that may include Design-Build, Technical Advisor Role, and conventional Design-Bid-Build (preliminary and detailed design). Lead medium to large size soil-structure interaction design projects, particularly in underground structures and foundations.
• Data Collection and Analysis: Conduct research using primary data sources, and select information needed for the analysis of key themes and trends.
• Pursuit and Delivery: Be a collaborative project leader both in the pursuit and delivery phase of the project. Pursuit and Delivery collaboration will be focused on our key markets in Transportation, Water, Energy and Resources, and Environment.
• Geoscientific Studies and Interpretations: Create proposals for the selection of exploration-well locations by overseeing all aspects of geological/geophysical modeling and leading the data interpretation process.
• Reservoir Characterization and Analysis: Analyze and integrate reservoir engineering data, including results of flow tests and well tests and historical production performance. Prepare and arrange the project database for reservoir engineering characterization and simulation. Review field and laboratory test results from ground investigations for design purposes as well as interpretation and preparation of Geotechnical Baseline and/or Interpretive reports (GBRs/ GIRs).
• Engineering Solutions Design: Contribute to the design of engineering solutions; design the feasibility testing approach and supervise its implementation to support the development and validation of engineering solutions.
• Carrying out seismic design: of underground structures in accordance with relevant Codes and Standards in Canada and the United States.
• Provide technical leadership: on complex and special geotechnical and geostructural engineering projects throughout our business (specific focus on Ontario). This includes major ongoing and upcoming transportation projects in the Greater Toronto Area.
• Knowledge Management: Implement policies and processes, collect best practices, write case studies, and deliver internal knowledge-sharing sessions to capture and share knowledge among colleagues on project/program outcomes and innovative practices and to support the practice.
• Data Management: Manage basic aspects of the data management system with guidance from senior colleagues. This includes being responsible for developing or operating basic elements of the data management systems to deliver prescribed outcomes.
• Technical Developments Recommendation: Discuss and recommend more complex or innovative technical developments to improve the quality of the website/portal/application software and supporting infrastructure to better meet users’ needs.
• Personal Capability Building: Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an in-depth understanding of technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
• Technical Troubleshooting: Manage technical troubleshooting projects, ensuring effective diagnosis of technical issues with equipment and experiments and the development of effective solutions.
• Research: Achieve specific goals for a designated part of a research program. Involves working within established research systems.
• Project Management: Deliver small- or medium-scale projects while working within an established program management plan.
• Exploration Plan Development: Design and implementing complex exploration plans.
• Client & Customer Management (External): Manage relationships with key clients and customers.
• Software Knowledge: Hands-on experience and experience in supervising others in the use of geotechnical and tunneling finite element modelling software, such as PLAXIS, FLAC, an asset
• Site supervision experience for infrastructure and building projects with focus on underground structures such as tunnels and underground stations.
• Be a collaborative partner with other parts of our business including specifically a collaborative partner with our Eastern and Western Canada Geotechnical Engineering businesses.
• Build effective relationships with Team Leaders, Business Group Leaders, Service Line Leaders and other key people.
• Contribute to the recruiting of key staff and will assist the team with new ideas on how we should grow the geostructural capabilities of the group.
• Manage a wide variety of projects related but not limited to transportation, rail, civil municipal, MTO and commercial development.
• Manage project schedules and budgets, while managing and maintaining excellent client relations.
• To provide expertise and support for geotechnical engineering aspects of projects throughout the design, tendering, and construction stages including, but not limited to:
  • Shallow and deep foundations (structures including buildings, bridges, embankments, etc., small to large scale and ground improvements
  • settlement analyses
  • engineered fills
  • slope stability and embankment assessments
  • shoring
  • trenching
  • tunnelling
  • construction groundwater control/dewatering requirements

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in geotechnical, geological or civil (geotechnical/geostructural) engineering or Equivalent Level
• A Professional Engineering (P. Eng) license with Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) is required.

Experience

• General Experience: Substantial general work experience together with comprehensive job-related experience in own area of expertise to fully competent level. (Over 6 years to 10 years)
• Managerial Experience: Experience of general supervision of more junior colleagues (7 to 12 months)
• Experience working in DB environment, major alternate delivery mode infrastructure projects, construction engineering and complex geostructural design including retaining walls, deep foundations, deep excavations, underground infrastructures, roads and bridges structures and high-rise buildings with deep basement founded level
• A high level of understanding on geostructural design including analytical, empirical and numerical methods and also advanced knowledge in soil and rock mechanics and structural elements, such as steel and plain and reinforced concrete elements. This includes numerical modeling constitutive models and structural elements to be implement in soil-structures and geostructural stress-strain analysis for design
• Ability to lead and cooperate with a team in various environments, as well as work independently
• Proficiency with advanced 2D and 3D static and dynamic soil-structures interaction and geostructural design software such as Plaxis 2D et 3D, FLAC2D et 3D, Roc Science (RS2/RS3, RSpile, Slide2/3), DeepXcav, ENSOFT (LPile, Group), Geostudio (SlopeW, SigmaW, SeepW)
• Strong written and oral communication (English) skills
• Strong analytical/technical, project management and report writing skills
• Desire to provide excellent practical client service and a commitment to technical excellence; and,
• Must be well organized, have the ability to manage and prioritize several

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