Senior Geotechnical Engineer Full Time NEW

Senior Geotechnical Engineer — Lead Projects. Build Clients. Shape Infrastructure. Join Terracon and step into a role where your technical expertise does more than deliver reports—it shapes the infrastructure that powers communities. As a Senior Geotechnical Engineer, you lead geotechnical investigations, analysis, and design across transportation, energy, industrial, and public infrastructure projects. Serve as a technical authority, ensuring quality, safety, and performance while guiding teams through complex challenges. Build strong client relationships, support proposals and business development, and mentor junior staff to strengthen technical capability and team performance. Success in this role is defined by strong technical work paired with effective project leadership, client trust, and business growth. Within 12–24 months, you are expected to own multiple projects, serve as a trusted client advisor, mentor engineers, and contribute to expanding or strengthening client relationships. If you’re ready to move beyond execution into ownership, influence, and leadership, this is your next move!

• Follow safety rules, guidelines and standards for all projects
• Participate in pre-task planning
• Report any safety issues or concerns to management
• Integrate quality leadership practices into daily regimen
• Provide consistent quality standards on proposal and project delivery
• Manage and execute small to medium projects and sometimes more complex projects
• Develop the scope of work for routine projects
• Prepare cost estimates, specifications, and other project related documents
• Analyze data, and perform engineering calculations and analysis
• Coordinate and supervise field investigations, laboratory testing, and evaluation of respective data, development of recommendations
• Develop plans, schedules, conducts, and/or coordinates detailed phases of assigned project work
• Work closely with senior-level project manager to gain project management and engineering experience
• Make design recommendations, adaptations and modifications
• Prepare work scope, proposals and reports and plans investigations for approval by senior level professionals for routine projects
• Serve as a technical adviser to junior-level project team members
• Supervise field staff including graduate/field engineers, engineering technicians, exploration teams, laboratory staff and other support personnel
• Interact with client and project team in developing scope of services and communicating project progress
• Works under the supervision of a Professional Engineer and a Terracon Authorized Project Reviewer

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience
• Valid driver’s license with acceptable violation history
• Engineer-in-Training (EIT) or Engineering Intern (EI) required and ability to obtain a registration as a Professional Engineer (PE)

• Master’s degree in Engineering
• Professional Engineer (PE) registration

• employee-owned
• medical
• dental
• vision
• life insurance
• 401(k) plan
• paid time off and holidays
• education reimbursement
• various bonus programs