Senior Staff Engineer

at Terracon Consultants, Inc. in Lombard, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Terracon Consultants, Inc. seeks Senior Staff Engineer in Lombard, IL

• Follow safety rules, guidelines and standards for all projects.
• Participate in pre-task planning and report any safety issues or concerns to management.
• Maintain quality standards on all projects.
• Responsible for managing and executing small to medium projects and sometimes more complex projects.
• Develop the scope of work for routine projects.
• Prepare cost estimates, specifications, and other project related documents.
• Analyze data and perform engineering calculations and analysis.
• Coordinate and supervise field investigations, laboratory testing, and evaluation of respective data, development of recommendations.
• Develop plans, schedules, conducts, and/or coordinate detailed phases of assigned project work.
• Work closely with senior-level project managers to gain project management and engineering experience.
• Make design recommendations, adaptations and modifications.
• Prepare work scope, proposals, reports, and plan investigations for approval by senior level professionals for routine projects.
• Serve as a technical adviser to junior-level project team members.
• Interact with client and project team in developing scope of services and communicating project progress.
• Work under the supervision of an Authorized Project Reviewer.

Requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering or a related field, plus 3 years of related work experience.

Required experience must include any amount of experience in all of the following:

• Reducing field and laboratory data and testing results.
• Carrying out bearing capacity and settlement analyses for shallow foundations and axial and lateral capacity evaluations for piles and drilled shafts.
• Geotechnical reports
• Conducting laboratory testing, including water content, particle size analysis, Atterberg limits, and Proctor compaction tests.
• Boring layout, evaluating drilling rig access, and assessing status of utility clearance.
• Field logging and conducting Standard Penetration and infiltration tests.
• Utilizing MicroStation and Adobe Illustrator software to generate 2D drawings and geotechnical report exhibits.
• Utilizing gINT, Slide 2, LPILE, APILE, and MicroStation software to conduct geotechnical analysis.

$90,875 - $119,064 per year. Medical, Vision, and Dental benefits. Must also have authority to work permanently in the U.S. Applicants who are interested in this position may apply at https://www.jobpostingtoday.com/ Ref #10623.