Civil Engineer (Geotechnical)

Duties

Responsible for coordinating investigations, analyses, and design of earthen dams and levees, excavations, tunneling, de-watering, instrumentation, building foundations, and other highly complex projects.

Plan method of accomplishment and collaborates with other organization segments to determine scope and method of foundation and borrow explorations for earth dams, levees, building foundations, excavations, pavements, etc. for civil projects.

Direct compilation of exploration data for use on contract drawings and preparation of reports of field and laboratory investigations.

Analyze, and interpret test data furnished by laboratory from field tests and logs of borings, together with data secured by reconnaissance of job area and from the data used in the original design from the as-built plans and design folders.

Prepare quality assurance and design reports for these structures or foundations for preliminary investigations, survey reports, general design, final design, risk assessments, and Dam Safety Modification Reports (DSMR).

Determine the necessity for the methods of controlling seepage in, around, or beneath a structure, including size and details of drainage blankets, filter layers, cutoff trenches, and relief wells

Review draft design memoranda, draft foundation design report, and draft contract specifications for soils and foundation features of projects.

Make field trips to investigate foundation preparation, earthwork construction, paving, cofferdams, and drainage problems of major civil projects.

Plans layout, details and directs installation of physical measurement devices such as piezometers, settlement gages, pressure gages, tilt-meters, slope indicators of inclinometers, uplift gages, etc.