
REMOTE ROLE - Senior Geotechnical Engineer
- الرياض
- مؤقت
- دوام كامل
ResponsibilitiesOur newest opportunity is for a talented Senior Geotechnical Engineer to join us remotely, on a distance working basis.This critical role will work as part of the Infrastructure team, developing geotechnical design of new and existing civil structures.We envisage success in this role to include;
- Providing technical design delivery and project management expertise.
- Overseeing geotechnical aspects of work, including slope stabilization, earthworks, shoring works, ground investigations, ground improvement e.t.c
- Demonstrating knowledge in earthworks, enabling works, geotechnical surveys, topographic surveys, geophysical surveys.
- Ensuring compliance with design specifications and project requirements.
- Conducting assessments, and reporting to ensure quality and safety standards are met.
- Coordinating with project teams, contractors, and clients to facilitate smooth project execution.
- Evaluating, selecting and applying standard engineering techniques, procedures and criteria to meet basic engineering and construction specifications.
- Setting-up geotechnical investigation (GI) specifications including drawings and bill of quantities.
- Preparing geotechnical designs of new and existing civil structures, such as, retaining walls, culverts, bridges foundations, shallow foundations, piled foundation, shoring structures, etc., following project’s scope.
- Preparing feasibility studies, geotechnical reports and interpretative geotechnical reports and other geotechnical related deliverables.
- Evaluating field and laboratory tests and providing recommendations on the most suitable method to assess materials.
- Advising appropriate Ground Improvement Methods like RIC, Dynamic Compaction, Stone Column, etc.
- Coordinating and giving technical guidance to CAD Technicians to produce drawings.
- Monitoring the technical quality of the projects to ensure that the projects delivered to Clients are of the highest technical quality and engineering practice standard.
- Coordinating with other disciplines to achieve a fully integrated design.
- Liaising with the Client and Authority representatives to obtain design approvals, as necessary.
- Providing discipline’s input for technical proposals for submission to external parties.
- Experience in international projects such as Middle East in an advantage.
- Strong background in pile foundation design and soil–structure interaction (SSI)
- Proven expertise in Plaxis 3D for advanced geotechnical modelling, including pile group interaction and nonlinear soil behavior.
- Predominant experience in design consultancy, including coordination with multidisciplinary teams
- Proficiency in software such as Autodesk AutoCAD and MS Office.
- Experience in Geotechnical software in market to use as tools in Geotechnical Engineering works, such as Plaxis, or similar.
- Good knowledge of relevant design codes such as AASHTO LRFD, British Standard (DMRB), Eurocodes and GCC Standards.
- Experience in BIM and AutoCAD Civil 3D is an advantage.
- Solid written and verbal communication skills in English.