Senior Geotechnical Civil Engineer



Note: This profile provides a market aligned view of this job’s typical core requirements, informed by Korn Ferry’s Success Profile methodology, and will evolve over time.

A seasoned engineering professional with demonstrated technical expertise aligned to professional accreditation standards. Independently leads the technical design and solution delivery of engineering projects, ensuring technical accuracy and compliance. Delivers high-quality, client-focused technical solutions across engineering projects. Contributes to feasibility studies, risk analysis, and pricing, ensuring compliance and technical accuracy. Supports the technical development of the team, strengthens client relationships through consistent delivery, and contributes to winning work through client engagement and involvement in bids and tenders.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities describe the typical accountabilities and scope of work for this job,  while recognising that individual objectives are set with the manager and may vary over time.

• Business Requirements Identification: Elicit complex business requirements using a variety of methods, such as interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis, to express the requirements in terms of target user roles and goals.
• Contract Management: Deliver required outcomes by managing day-to-day relationships with contract service providers while working within an established contract management plan.
• Feasibility Studies: Conduct complex feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective and document findings to complete cost-benefit analysis on implementing changes to business processes, products, or business unit structure.
• Improvement/Innovation: Identify shortcomings and suggest improvements to existing processes, systems, and procedures, then deliver a plan for a small element of a change management program with guidance from a project/program manager.
• Knowledge Management System: Work within established knowledge management systems to deliver preset outcomes for an area of responsibility.
• Policy Development and Implementation: Help develop procedures for an area of the organization and monitor their implementation.
• Product and Solution Development: Define and deliver products and services that meet customer needs by selecting the best possible approaches available within established systems.
• Testing: Develop product specifications and design test procedures and standards.

Competencies

Competencies describe the observable behaviours that differentiate effective performance in this job and guide expectations, feedback, and development discussions.

• Action Oriented – Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm. For example, takes timely action on important or difficult issues. Identifies and pursues new opportunities that benefit the organization.
• Collaborates – Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. For example, readily involves others to accomplish goals; stays in touch and shares information; discourages "us versus them" thinking; shows appreciation for others' ideas and input.
• Decision Quality – Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward. For example, knows when to act independently and when to escalate issues. Integrates various inputs, decision criteria, and trade-offs to make effective decisions. Typically makes good independent decisions.
• Ensures Accountability – Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments. For example, accepts responsibility for own work, both successes and failures. Handles fair share and does not make excuses for problems. Usually meets commitments to others.
• Manages Complexity – Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. For example, asks questions to encourage others to think differently and enrich their analyses of complex situations. Accurately defines the key elements of complex, ambiguous situations.
• Optimizes Work Processes – Knows the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement. For example, uses metrics and benchmarks to monitor accuracy and quality. Takes steps to make methods productive and efficient. Promptly and effectively addresses process breakdowns.

Skills

Skills reflect the technical, professional, and functional capabilities required to perform the job effectively at the expected level, and guide assessment and development.

• Analytical Process Techniques – Works with full competence to apply appropriate analytical processes and procedures to support research schedules. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
• Analyze Current State/AS-IS State – Works at an advanced level to understand business context, needs, rules, and architecture, as well as organizational structure, cultures, capabilities, and processes to document the current state of processes and the business. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Business Requirements Analysis – Works at an advanced level to express user needs in terms of business requirements, identify current capability of the business to deliver, conduct build or buy analyses, and recommend preferred approach. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Data Collection and Analysis – Works at an advanced level to determine and analyze trends from data that is collected to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision-making. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Data Control – Works at an advanced level to acquire, organize, protect and process data in order to fulfill business objectives. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Define Future State/TO-BE State – Works at an advanced level to envision and document the future state of processes and products by identifying the solution scope, potential value of the future state, and the changes to the process, products, organization infrastructure, capabilities, and technology necessary to achieve the desired future state. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Perform Gap Analysis – Works at an advanced level to conduct gap analysis between current and future states to identify components of the overall change strategy. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Requirements Creation and Verification – Works at an advanced level to create the rules for requirements and design quality, perform verification activities, and maintain quality control. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Requirements Elicitation and Facilitation – Works at an advanced level to lead facilitated sessions for requirements elicitation, focus groups, and user acceptance testing. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Research and Development Testing – Works with full competence to test, evaluate and replan research outcomes. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
• Review and Reporting – Works at an advanced level to create reports, and review reports created by others, for various audiences as relevant, in a lucid and effective manner, keeping in mind the purpose of reports. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Validate Requirements – Works at an advanced level to identify assumptions in order to manage risk, assess the success with measurable evaluation criteria, and evaluate alignment of requirements with solution scope to support value delivery. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Level

Experience

• General Experience: Substantial general work experience together with comprehensive job related experience in own area of expertise to fully competent level. (Over 6 years to 10 years)
• Managerial Experience: Experience of general supervision of more junior colleagues (7 to 12 months)