Job Description Explore with us at Terracon in Louisville as a Senior Geotechnical Engineer!

Ready to grow your career as part of a down-to-earth team with the freedom to explore and develop solutions on rewarding, large-scale projects? Want a flexible work environment and a culture where your ideas are valued and your safety is paramount? How about having access to a nationwide bench of expertise, and opportunities to learn and lead? This is life at Terracon, a 100% employee-owned company where we chart our course together and everyone benefits when our hard work creates success.

As a Senior Geotechnical Engineer, you will provide geotechnical engineering and consulting services for various geotechnical projects and clients. Typical projects include transmission lines extending across hundreds of miles, slope stability assessment, roadways/transportation, and vertical construction. You will be responsible for mentoring and coaching less experienced engineers, planning and overseeing field investigations, determining appropriate laboratory testing, performing engineering analysis/calculations, and providing geotechnical recommendations. This role will also prepare proposals and cost estimates, track and evaluate project progress, and maintain budgets. Senior Geotechnical Engineers must also be able to communicate complex engineering issues and concepts to technical and non-technical clients and project teams.

Essential Roles and Responsibilities: Lead safety efforts for team and ensure team follows safety rules and guidelines. Responsible for creating and modeling a safe work environment; demonstrating safety practices. Promote pre-task planning for all projects. Promote continuous quality monitoring and improvement on projects. Monitor quality standards and practices. Develop understanding and be aware of project-related risk and how to protect the Company. Be familiar with company risk policies. Senior level engineering professional providing technical direction required for production and completion of both routine and unique or complex projects. Responsible for conceptualizing the initial design and/or investigative approach for a major phase of a large project or have overall responsibility for the engineering work on a project of moderate scope. Plan, schedule, conduct, and/or coordinates engineering work involving conventional engineering practices but may include a variety of complex features such as conflicting design requirements. Provide review of projects requiring complex and innovative investigation techniques and supervise the analysis and formulation of recommendations in written reports to clients; provides technical review of reports. Lead technical training and make informed decisions based upon state of the art technology issues. Provide leadership of marketing, sales and business development. Supervise less experienced engineers or technical support personnel on projects. Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering. Minimum 8-11 years’ experience. Master’s degree in Engineering preferred. Professional Engineer (PE) registration. Valid driver’s license with acceptable violation history. #LI-KR1