Delve Underground is a leader in underground and heavy civil engineering serving the transportation, water, wastewater, and energy industries. Specializing in tunnel design, we provide practical solutions to the most challenging underground problems. We offer comprehensive design, construction management, and construction claims services, with expertise extending across a wide range of engineering disciplines, including civil, structural, and geotechnical engineering. Our primary focus is to make a significant impact on the advancement of infrastructure projects, which in turn shape and enhance the communities we serve. Founded in 1954, as Jacobs Associates, Delve Underground is an employee-owned firm with 25 offices and 350 team members throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

We want our employees to make a career doing what they love to do. We encourage an entrepreneurial spirit and help our team members forge their own path within the company. We support their efforts to stay on the cutting edge of technology while fostering a great work-life balance. In addition to working hard, we also have fun. We socialize and celebrate achievements at summer picnics, holiday parties, and company outings.

Benefits: Full Benefits Program consisting of Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, FSA or HSA, EAP, 401(k), ESOP, and company stock ownership program, 9 Paid Holidays, generous paid-time-off program, Work from home flexibility, and Health &Wellness Reimbursement

Pay Rate: $81,735 - $134,433

Project Geotechnical Engineer

Delve Underground has an immediate opening for a Geotechnical Engineer with 6-10 years of relevant experience to join our Portland team delivering tunnels, underground facilities, and water infrastructure projects. This position offers a great opportunity for a motivated, detail oriented, team-centric candidate to work on diverse jobs, from local jobs to transit, water and wastewater mega-projects around the world. Preferably, the candidate will have experience in one or more of the following areas: geotechnical engineering, excavation support design, tunneling, or trenchless technologies. Our geotechnical and structural staff work closely with one another to deliver great solutions to our clients in underground projects.

Responsibilities:

• Perform geotechnical engineering analyses and calculations for tunnels, shafts, foundations, retaining structures, landslide and slope stability, ground improvement, liquefaction, lateral spreading and seismic evaluations.
• Evaluate and characterize soil and rock ground conditions for engineering design
• Preparation of technical reports and other documents
• Development of construction drawings and specifications for underground infrastructure
• Management of small projects and tasks on larger projects
• Oversight of staff engineers and geologists on field assignments and geotechnical analyses
• Occasional work in the field performing inspections of construction activities or site investigations.
• Work as integral member of a team on complex, multi-discipline projects.
• Demonstrate good writing and communication skills to work with internal staff and clients.

Qualifications:

• MS in Geotechnical or Geological Engineering
• Ability to manage a number of concurrent assignments and priorities, and supervise junior staff on project tasks.
• Strong analytical and technical communication skills.
• Familiarity with seismic guidelines and codes in ASCE.
• Familiarity with geotechnical analysis software including Rocscience suite, Shoring Suite or similar programs;
• Familiarity with FLAC, ABAQUS, LS-Dyna, DEEPSOIL or Plaxis considered an asset.
• Professional Engineering (PE) registration in Oregon or be able to obtain within 1 year from the date of hire.
• Willingness to travel for short-term assignments to remote locations.
• Driver's license required

ARE YOU READY TO JOIN OUR TEAM?

If you feel that you would be right for this position, please fill out our initial 3-minute, mobile-friendly application so that we can review your information. We look forward to meeting you!

Delve Underground is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and will make all employment related decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Compensation reflects the cost of labor across our US geographic markets. Pay is based on several factors including market location, experience, knowledge, and skills.

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