Geotechnical Engineer

Job Description

We're seeking a Geotechnical Engineer with a minimum of 3 years experience to support our Mechanicsburg, PA office. You will work on multiple projects simultaneously, including highway, bridge, and pavement design projects.  Excellent opportunity for career advancement into Project Engineer role, depending on candidate’s ability.

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors is our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

Responsibilities

• Provide field oversight of subsurface investigation programs, including soil borings, field classification of soils and rock, in-situ testing, geologic mapping, and geophysical testing
• Interprets laboratory test results to determine design parameters
• Develop and provide oversight of geotechnical instrumentation programs and data collection including conventional piezometers, inclinometers, extensometers, and tiltmeters.
• Evaluates, selects and determines appropriate foundation solutions for complex sites
• Performs geotechnical and foundation related designs calculations for transportation projects including slope stability, settlement, deep and shallow foundations, retaining walls, and support of excavation systems.
• Prepares Subsurface Exploration and Soils Laboratory Testing Program submissions, Foundation Design Recommendations and other geotechnical related reports.
• Review Contractor design and construction submittals
• Attend on site observations of construction activities, including pile driving, subgrade preparation, installation of monitoring instrumentation
• Collaborates with both junior and senior level staff to accomplish goals

Required Skills & Required Experience

• BS in Civil Engineering (with an emphasis in geotechnical engineering), MS or PhD degree preferred
• Ideal experience would be 3-5 years of diverse geotechnical experience, including transportation project experience, preferably for PennDOT, Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC), and/or design-build.
• EIT is required.
• Experience in building and bridge foundations, pavement design, slope stability/stabilization, and ground improvement/modification design and construction. 
• Familiarity with geotechnical design software including gINT/OpenGround, Ensoft LPILE/APILE/GROUP, SLOPE/W, SEEP/W, SLIDE2, GRLWEAP, ct-Shoring, or similar
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
• A desire to work in a team environment 
•  A clean driving record is required

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for our employee’s. So if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

*Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.

Notice to Third Party Recruiters:  Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.

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