Senior Geotechnical Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Geotechnical Engineer leading complex transportation, marine, and civil infrastructure projects for Arcadis. Delivering geotechnical designs, construction support, and client proposals in Western Canada.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and deliver geotechnical engineering work on civil, transportation, ports, marine, and large infrastructure projects
  • Support planning, design, and construction phases of multidisciplinary projects
  • Work with private and public sector clients
  • Mentor and guide junior colleagues
  • Plan, coordinate, and oversee geotechnical site investigations and exploration programs
  • Develop scopes of work, budgets, and schedules for investigations
  • Interpret and characterize ground conditions using geotechnical and geophysical data
  • Develop practical design parameters and recommendations
  • Perform and review analyses and designs for foundations, retaining structures, excavations, slopes, ground improvement, seismic assessments, and soil-structure interaction
  • Prepare and review design reports, calculations, drawings, specifications, quantities, cost estimates, and technical deliverables
  • Review contractor submissions and provide field support during construction
  • Assess changed conditions during construction
  • Manage multidisciplinary project scopes, schedules, budgets, and risks
  • Support and lead client engagement and proposal development

Requirements

  • Registered as a Professional Engineer in British Columbia or any other Canadian Province
  • Minimum 10 years of geotechnical engineering experience on transportation, civil, ports, marine or large infrastructure projects
  • Graduate degree in geotechnical engineering or a closely related discipline is preferred
  • Strong proficiency in interpreting ground investigations and developing geotechnical parameters
  • Experience preparing Geotechnical Interpretative Reports (GIR) and Geotechnical Design Reports (GDR)
  • Design experience with deep and shallow foundations, retaining structures, excavations and tunnels, slopes and embankments, and ground improvement techniques
  • Geotechnical seismic experience including liquefaction assessment, mitigation strategies, and seismic numerical modelling using PLAXIS or equivalent tools
  • Experience with marine or port structures, offshore geotechnics, soft soils, or rock engineering is considered an asset
  • Proficiency with PLAXIS, RS Pile, LPile, APile, SHAFT, GROUP, Seep W, Slope W, Slide2, CPeTIT, CLiq, LiqSV, AutoCAD or Civil 3D, Settle3 or equivalent
  • Strong communication, interpersonal, and problem solving skills
  • Ability to mentor and guide junior engineers and support knowledge sharing
  • Excellent technical writing skills and experience preparing engineering reports, memoranda, and design documentation
  • Strong understanding of the Canadian Foundation Engineering Manual CFEM 2023 and Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code CSA S6-19 and CSA S6-25

Benefits

  • Meaningful work delivering sustainable solutions
  • Skills-based career development approach
  • Equal opportunity and affirmative action workplace
  • Diversity, inclusion, and belonging commitment

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$106,000 - CA$159,000 per year

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Location requirements

HybridVancouverCanada

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