Senior Geotechnical Engineer

Senior Geotechnical Engineer

Brampton, ON

At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges.

Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, that believes diversity is what gives us strength, seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other, our clients and the communities we are part of and serve.

To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience, while staying connected to a global network of professionals, who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.

Are you ready to design your future?

Be our next Senior Geotechnical Engineer !

Your work environment at EXP

EXP is currently seeking a Senior Geotechnical Engineer with experience in tunneling projects to join our engineering team in Brampton, Ontario.

Reporting to the Geotechnical Division Manager, the successful candidate will provide technical services and project management to a variety of projects.

What a day at EXP has in store for you

• Developing and maintaining business relationships with clients.
• Preparing proposals for projects for geotechnical services for civil engineering projects that include cost estimates and timelines.
• Planning and carrying out assignments requiring familiarity with a broad range of geotechnical engineering with reciprocal knowledge of the work on other field of technical work.
• Utilizing combinations of standard procedures, modifications of standard procedures and methods developed in other assignments when analysing each unique project.
• Co-ordinating with clients, suppliers and third parties to accomplish the required project objectives.
• Managing projects to achieve the objectives, which are required by the client, including briefing and control of staff and contractors allocated to the project, scheduling work, cost control (expenses and budget control as well as utilization management.
• Directing field activities, including investigation, monitoring and testing services on construction projects.
• Attending project meetings and carrying out site inspections when senior technical guidance and support is required.
• Reviewing and interpreting monitoring information from geotechnical instrumentation programmes.
• Carrying out analysis of data, including computer analyses.
• Writing and reviewing technical reports.
• Working with senior staff when dealing with difficult, complex and unusual matters and decisions.
• Performing independent studies, analyses, interpretations and conclusions.
• Working independently with little supervision, depending on the complexity of the assignment.
• Liaising with clients, contractors, consultants, municipal staff, and other stakeholders.
• Continuing own technical skills development and propagation of those skills to others.
• Coaching, mentoring and developing junior and intermediate Geotechnical employees.

What your experience looks like

• Designation from Ontario is required.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Geotechnical, Civil or Geological Engineering with a post-graduate degree preferred.
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in Geotechnical engineering related to tunneling, preferably predominantly obtained in a consulting engineering environment.
• Management of engineering teams consisting of intermediate and junior professionals and technicians.
• Development of comprehensive scopes of work to the client’s requirements.
• Use of high level engineering principles.
• Ensuring that standards and criteria have been met.
• Maintaining budgetary control, including changes in the scope of work due to client requirements and physical / geotechnical conditions.
• Accurately and appropriately reporting project assignments on schedule.
• Management of multiple projects at one time.
• Proven business development skills to generate geotechnical services on projects and to take on new clients.
• Experience with complex geotechnical investigations and design work.
• Proven mentoring of junior engineering staff.
• Strong verbal and written communication.
• Ability to exercise diplomacy and tact when interacting with fellow staff, clients, consultants and contractors.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, including multi-tasking and prioritizing;
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with standard construction procedures and methodologies.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Advanced computer analysis experience.
• Valid driver’s license and vehicle.

About Us

Our story

With a mission to understand, innovate, partner and deliver, EXP provides engineering, architecture, design and consulting services to the world’s built and natural environments.

Our heritage dates back to 1906, when the earliest of EXP’s predecessor companies started its engineering infrastructure practice.

Today, thousands of creative professionals across EXP work together to deliver extraordinary experiences year after year.

What makes us different

The passion, enthusiasm, diversity and industry-leading capabilities of our employees make us who we are. We’re committed to providing a challenging work environment that cultivates career growth, encourages creativity and rewards excellence.

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About the Team

EXP is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer who fully and actively supports equal access for all people regardless of Race, Color, Religion, Gender, Age, National Origin, Veteran Status, Disability, Genetic Information or Testing, Family and Medical Leave, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity or Expression.

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