Senior Geotechnical Engineer

Senior Geotechnical Engineer


St Cloud, MN


Full Time


We're looking for an experienced Project Engineer to join our team and play a key role in delivering complex geotechnical, special inspection, and construction materials testing projects. This is an opportunity to bring your technical expertise, project leadership, and client relationship skills to a growing team working on challenging projects that help shape the communities and infrastructure of Northern Minnesota.


If you're ready to take the next step in your career, mentor and develop others, build strong client partnerships, and lead projects from concept through completion, we'd love to have you join us.
Responsibilities:

• Independently prepare proposals for simple to complex projects.
• Independently perform engineering analysis using standard formulas and computer software, create sketches, technical comparisons, and similar technical work in compliance with company and industry methodologies, for simple to moderate complex projects. Collaborate on highly complex projects with other senior and principal engineers.
• Work within established procedures and/or protocols, while aware of risks associated with recommendations.
• Review field reports documenting contractors work methods, test results, and the interpretation of these tests.
• Act as the primary author of deliverables for projects.
• Assist with field and lab activities when necessary.
• Provide mentorship to junior level field and office team members.
• Provide technical and peer review of project deliverables, proposals, and reports before submittal to Senior Engineer II for final review.
• Act as a technical resource for one or more engineering specialties.
• Oversee, train and/or teach Braun Intertec technical practices.
• Coordinate project assignments with other engineers and technicians within the discipline group.
• Direct project teams and projects with significant business impact.
• Independently manage small to large sized, low to high complexity CMT projects.
• Review drawings supplied by vendors, clients, engineers, and architects and recommend necessary changes.
• Recognize and resolve construction/CMT problems.
• Develops client relationships including attending professional organization events and identifying and following up with potential clients.
• Understand and manage the need of clients through communications and proposal/project work.
• Demonstrate thorough understanding of professional liability and business risks and able to communicate issues with client and BIC legal.
• Consistently follow all safety policies and practices and communicates project safety requirements to all team members assigned to projects managed.
• Be actively involved in industry and professional associations.
• Present locally at industry association meetings.
• Ability to manage and mitigate risk in consulting projects. Aware of engineering specialties outside area of expertise.
• Demonstrated understanding of Braun Intertec contracting policies, including General Conditions.
• Demonstrated understanding of the local Standard of Care.
• Possess knowledge and experience in geographic/geologic practice areas sufficient to serve as a technical resource and/or reviewer within those areas.
• Possess technical aptitude to solve technical issues where solutions are undefined in typical practice.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated fiscal management skills.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Excellent critical thinking skills and attention to detail.
• Strong computer skills, particularly utilizing Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Creative and innovative thinking in bringing successful resolution to high-impact, complex, and/or cross-department problems.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Able to interact with clients to help maintain project schedules and deliverables.
• Ability to develop and manage multiple client relationships at once.
• Ability to develop understanding of Braun Intertec services and able to market such to clients.
• Ability to work independently and as a team member.
• Ability to qualify professional opinions and recommendations of less experienced engineers, applying engineering principles and practices.
• Ability to delegate and develop direct reports.

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision.


Working Conditions:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud when on job site.