Geotechnical Engineer

Geotechnical Engineer

Hamilton, ON

At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, that believes diversity is what gives us strength, seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other, our clients and the communities we are part of and serve. To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience, while staying connected to a global network of professionals, who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.

Are you ready to design your future?

Be our next Geotechnical Engineer!

Your work environment at EXP

EXP is currently seeking a Geotechnical Engineer to join our engineering team in Hamilton, Ontario. Reporting to the Geotechnical Division Manager, the successful candidate will provide technical services to a variety of projects which they will be assigned.

What a day at EXP has in store for you

• Developing and maintaining business relationships with clients;
• Preparing proposals for geotechnical investigations and material inspection and testing services;
• Planning and overseeing geotechnical investigations from proposal phase to final report, including meetings, and client correspondence;
• Carrying out footing base inspections and troubleshooting construction site issues;
• Directing field activities, including investigations, monitoring and testing services on construction projects, reviewing field reports, drafting reports;
• Co-ordinating with clients, colleagues, suppliers and third parties to accomplish the required project objectives;
• Managing projects to achieve the objectives, including briefing and control of staff and contractors allocated to the project, scheduling work, cost control (expenses and budget control as well as utilization management);
• Experience with building science inspections would be an asset;
• Attending project meetings and carrying out site inspections when technical guidance and support is required;
• Reviewing and interpreting monitoring information from geotechnical instrumentation and settlement monitoring programs;
• Carrying out analysis of data, including computer analyses;
• Collaborating with staff when dealing with difficult, complex and unusual matters and decisions;
• Performing independent studies, analyses, interpretations and conclusions;
• Working independently with little supervision, depending on the complexity of the assignment;
• Liaising with clients, contractors, consultants, municipal staff, and other stakeholders;
• Continuing own technical skills development and propagation of those skills to others;
• Coaching, mentoring and developing junior and intermediate Geotechnical employees.

What your experience looks like

Accurately and appropriately reporting project assignments on schedule;

EXP subscribes to the Workplace Equity Program. Applications from women, members of visible minorities, Indigenous peoples and persons with disabilities are encouraged. Persons with disabilities can obtain accommodation for the selection process by contacting us at the following email address : hrsupport@exp.com .

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