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About the Role
Mott MacDonald is seeking a Principal Geotechnical Engineer to join their dynamic team, collaborating on a wide variety of infrastructure projects including transportation, offshore wind and solar, stormwater and wastewater treatment plants, underground, roadway, and dams. This role involves using technical knowledge to solve problems, evaluate risks, and pursue new opportunities while developing and mentoring junior staff.
Responsibilities
- Developing and leading project teams to deliver projects on time and within budget
- Leading and managing staff engineers and supporting their career and technical development
- Working within broader Mott MacDonald organization to promote technical excellence
- Providing technical and commercial input into project proposals
- Developing relationships with other discipline leads and project managers to foster collaboration on multidisciplinary projects
- Writing and reviewing reports, specification and contracts drawings for submission to clients (internal and external)
- Liaising with various clients, attending progress meetings and producing reports on progress
- Providing expert engineering input into designs
- Assessment of subsurface conditions and development of design criteria
- Developing engineering concepts, and articulation of the concepts to the team
- Identification, evaluation and communication of risks and potential risk mitigation options to clients and management
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in geotechnical engineering (Master’s preferred.)
- 15+ years of related experience
- PE License in one or more states including state of residency. NY/NJ preferred.
- Established track record in geotechnical design based on project experience
- Experience working with government and local agencies, long linear projects (tunnels, pipelines, bridge/highways etc.) and energy projects (wind, solar, transmission etc.)
- Knowledge and experience in geotechnical design including shallow and deep foundations, settlement evaluation and mitigation, slope stability, and ground modification including experience with commercially available software (Lpile, Slope/W, RSPile, Settle3, Open Ground etc.)
- Experience developing geotechnical business and client relationships
- Experience in geotechnical risk determination and management
Skills
- Geotechnical design
- Risk evaluation
- Mentoring junior staff
- Project management
- Technical writing
- Client liaison
- Shallow and deep foundations
- Settlement evaluation and mitigation
- Slope stability
- Ground modification
- Commercially available software (Lpile, Slope/W, RSPile, Settle3, Open Ground etc.)
Location
- Northeast/Mid-Atlantic
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 15+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in geotechnical engineering
- Master’s degree preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $163,000 - $200,000
Benefits
- Personal and group performance bonuses
- 401k
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Paid holidays
- PTO
- Parental leave
- Company paid life insurance
About the Company
- Mott MacDonald is a multi-disciplined engineering consultancy with a significant presence in energy, water and wastewater and infrastructure projects throughout the United States and Canada.
- We are one of the largest employee-owned companies in the world, with a network of over 20,000 talented consultants.
- We focus on sustainability and innovation across sectors including Buildings, Energy, Transportation, and Water in North America.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability status.