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Job Description
Overview
At UES, we’re a team of more than 4,000 engineers, scientists, geologists, inspectors, technicians, and drillers united by a shared purpose—to make a meaningful impact in the communities we serve. As a national leader in geotechnical engineering, environmental consulting, and materials testing and inspection, we collaborate on transformative projects across transportation, energy, water, healthcare, and more. Learn more about the benefits of joining Team UES and our core values at careers.teamues.com.
Position Overview
The Senior Geotechnical Engineer is a highly experienced technical leader responsible for overseeing complex geotechnical projects, driving innovation in engineering solutions, and leading strategic business development initiatives. This role serves as a technical authority within the organization, providing mentorship, quality assurance, and high-level client engagement. The Senior Geotechnical Engineer is expected to secure and manage large-scale, high-profile projects and guide the geotechnical team’s growth and technical excellence.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical expert on geotechnical engineering projects of significant complexity and scope.
- Lead multidisciplinary project teams, coordinating geotechnical input for large infrastructure, transportation, energy, and commercial projects.
- Develop innovative, cost-effective, and sustainable geotechnical design solutions.
- Manage project budgets, schedules, and resources, ensuring delivery of high-quality work products.
- Build and maintain strategic client relationships, leading proposal efforts and negotiations for major contracts.
- Provide senior-level review and approval of geotechnical reports, specifications, and engineering analyses.
- Mentor, train, and develop junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
- Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and professional associations.
- Contribute to company-wide technical standards, research initiatives, and best practices.
- Ensure strict compliance with safety standards, regulatory requirements, and quality control procedures.
Qualifications
- Work is primarily conducted outdoors with exposure to outdoor conditions, including:
- Sites that may not be accessible by vehicle, requiring travel on foot through wetlands, swamps, grasslands, construction zones, and other uneven or rugged terrain with natural and man-made obstacles such as sand, brush, and debris.
- Moderate to loud noise levels due to lab equipment, field operations, and construction environments.
- Exposure to dirt, dust, chemicals, sun, heat, humidity, and varying weather conditions as part of field sample collection and testing.
- Physical requirements include:
- Ability to lift and carry between 35 and 75 lbs. over distances up to 75 feet, involving regular repetitive motion.
- Ability to stand, walk, drive, and operate laboratory and field equipment for extended periods.
- Ability to bend, twist, reach, stoop, pull, kneel, climb, balance, lift, carry, and push as required for laboratory and fieldwork.
- Ability to use your senses to see (including close, distant, and peripheral vison, depth vision, and ability to focus) smell, hear, touch (use hands to reach climb or balance, crouch, stoop, crawl, kneel and sit).
- Ability to communicate effectively through verbal and written means in a lab and field environment, often requiring the use of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment).