Senior Geotechnical Engineer

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Senior Geotechnical Engineer
City	Singapore
Career Level
Category	Geotechnical
Description	Job Description: The role offers excellent career opportunities to work with a wide range of global clients on some multi-disciplinary, key major projects. This role offers the opportunity for you to broaden your experience, skills capability and project responsibilities. Day-to-day responsibilities will include but not exclusive to: • Responsible for the production of design solutions and drawings, covering a range of project requirements from new build to modification, maintenance, refurbishment, foundation design and coordinating civil or structural engineering with geotechnical assessment. • Manage multi-disciplinary projects and coordinate with other engineering disciplines including, structural, tunnel, maritime or bridge engineers. • Ensure rock slope stability, excavatability and earthworks material acceptability assessments are collated to project dictates. • Potential site investigations and supervision interpreting ground investigations; geological and geomorphological mapping; detailed soil and rock logging, ground work investigations and earthworks construction and contaminated land risk assessment. • Temporary works design for deep excavations & obtaining authority approval of designs • Construction supervision for geotechnical works including large scale earthworks, piling, soil nailing, rock bolting, and tunnelling • Ensuring the geotechnical aspects of the design are correctly implemented including geo-environmental desk study reports in order to identify potential geotechnical hazards. • Interpretation and verification of ground investigation data and parameters building up a ground model to assist in the tender design. • Supporting colleagues or directly managing project scoping, design, contractual or financial management. • Supporting or leading on pre-quals, tenders or project bids. • Responding to the contractors needs with respect to geotechnical queries and constructability/programme driven design changes. • Become integral to the division’s operations and contribute to the business and graduate/junior colleagues and team’s technical development. • Contribute to risk assessment and specification document. Candidate Specification: Applicants should have a depth of technical expertise in Geotechnical engineering ideally from working in an engineering consultancy. Exposure to a range of project dynamics, sizes and progressive input and influence gained over a professional career, likely to be gained over a 10-15 years+ Successful Candidates are likely to have the following characteristics: • Strong academics, engineering degree qualified (or equivalent). Additional qualifications such as MSc, MEng or MA are benefical but not essential. • Chartered/Professional engineer is preferable • Project management, proven capability to deliver to deadline and team leadership/develop capabilities are essential to be successful in this role. • Capable of operating as technical lead as well as team member as scope and range of project interaction alters accordingly. • Experience of working on multiple concurrent commissions, and representing the company to clients. • Experience of site investigations and supervision including desk study reports in order to identify potential geotechnical hazards • Ideally experience establishing project scoping, design, contractual or financial management. • Experience of working with a range of project stakeholders, contractors and clients. • Be innovative looking to develop their technical and management skills and the willingness to tackle any challenge • Willing to develop technical skills and career experience working on multi-disciplinary, profile projects always demanding effective technical delivery.