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Senior Project Geologist

Woolpert
King, PA Contractor
POSTED ON 12/28/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/12/2026
We seek to move the world forward through innovative thinking.

Woolpert is an award-winning, global leader in architecture, engineering, and geospatial services. We blend design excellence with cutting-edge technology to deliver exceptional client value. Our team is passionate about their work and committed to building the next generation of industry leaders, and as a certified Great Place to Work®, Woolpert embraces progress and innovation to create limitless opportunities for career growth.

Position Overview

Woolpert is hiring a Senior Project Geologist to join our dynamic Infrastructure Group at our King of Prussia office. This position reports to the Geotechnical Team Leader and is responsible for responsible for managing geotechnical projects, mentoring junior staff, and providing technical leadership in geotechnical analyses and reporting. This role involves overseeing project execution from proposal through report delivery, ensuring quality assurance and control, and supporting geotechnical services . The Senior Project Geologist also allocates resources, supervises laboratory operations, and ensures compliance with company and industry standards.

We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must already possess work authorization in the country the job is located.

What You Will Do

  • Manage geotechnical projects from proposal submission through completion and report delivery.
  • Assist in project oversight and resource allocation.
  • Mentor junior geologists and geotechnical staff.
  • Provide QA/QC for project analyses, calculations, and reports.
  • Perform site visits and review/analyze geotechnical conditions.
  • Recommend and plan subsurface investigations.
  • Allocate staff and budget in coordination with Discipline Director.
  • Supervise preparation of contract documents and project schedules.
  • Assign inspectors for drilling projects in coordination with the Discipline Director.
  • Oversee day-to-day laboratory operations, review testing orders and lab reports.
  • Issue project invoices and ensure timely billing.

What You Will Bring

  • 15 or more years of related experience and/or training in geotechnical or geological engineering.
  • Professional Geologist License required.
  • Software Skills:
    • Microsoft Office Suite
    • Deltek Vision or similar
    • Newforma or similar
    • Google Earth or similar
    • Adobe Standard or similar
    • gINT (Advanced
    • Experience supervising laboratory operations and mentoring junior staff preferred.
    • Experience with contract document preparation and project scheduling preferred.

    Physical Qualifications

    • Ability to sit frequently and stand or walk occasionally.
    • Close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust visual focus required.
    • No regular lifting or moving of heavy objects required.

    Working Conditions

    • Primarily office-based with occasional site visits.
    • May require travel to project sites and work in varying conditions.

    Benefits You Will Love

    Certified as a Great Place to Work, Woolpert is one of the fastest-growing architecture, engineering, and geospatial companies in the world. With over 75 offices and countless projects around the globe, you’ll work on meaningful assignments that improve quality of life around the world. In addition to offering competitive pay, we provide employees with a robust set of unique benefits, including:

    • Freedom to Work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate).
    • Principal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.
    • Flexible paid time off/vacation: Take time off when it makes sense for you and your team.
    • Career development: Explore a wide range of learning and growth opportunities within and across industries.
    • Health, life, vision, and dental insurance: Cover all your medical bases.
    • Paid sick time, retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, pet insurance, identity protection, technology stipend, employee assistance program, and more!

    Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

    Pay Range

    $125,300 - $174,000 USD

    Find out more about what Woolpert has to offer here: http://woolpert.com/about-us/

    Woolpert is an equal-opportunity employer. Woolpert is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. You may view more about EEO on our website: Equal-Employment-Opportunity-The-Law.pdf and EEO is the Law Poster Supplement.

    Applicants who require an accommodation throughout the application and interview process should request this in advance by contacting askhr@woolpert.com

    To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of Woolpert or any of our subsidiaries about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at Woolpert via email, the internet, or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of Woolpert, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by Woolpert's Talent Acquisition Team for this requisition and a valid agreement is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of Woolpert's applicant process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

    Salary : $125,300 - $174,000

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