Principal Geotechnical Engineer

WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff

Doha, Qatar

Ref: NP340-26

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

As part of our strategic growth plans, we currently have an exciting opportunity to join the team as a Principal Geotechnical Engineer. Utilising your experience gained from working on a variety of project types and sizes, your core duties will be to:
Design geotechnical site investigations including recommendations for best intrusive techniques to be employed and specification of in-situ and laboratory testing
Assist in procurement of site investigation contractors
Supervision of site investigation contractors
Review and comment on factual and interpretative geotechnical and geo-environmental reports produced by others and provide concise recommendations
Produce geotechnical and geo-environmental factual and interpretative reports
Provide recommendations relating to the choice of foundations including the use of ground improvement techniques
Provide specifications for Enabling, Shoring, Excavation, Ground improvement and Piling works
Review of tender returns and produce tender evaluations for enabling, shoring and piling works
Undertake design and assessment of foundations, substructure and retaining/shoring walls
Undertake geo-environmental assessments including Phase 1, 2 and 3 including recommendation for assessment of ground-gas regime
Undertaking resident engineer services for foundation and shoring contracts
Capable of carrying out geotechnical analysis including slope stability calculations, embedded retaining and shoring walls; pile design, ground movement assessments, evaluation of soil springs for use within structural design models and soil structure interaction.

Requirements

Ideally you have experience in the following:
Site investigation techniques with a number of years spent supervising site works
Describing soil and rocks to international standards
Preparing Geotechnical Interpretative Reports including recommendations for deep and shallow foundations and shoring works
Design and specification of piled foundations within soils and rocks
Analysis of shoring walls including Diaphragm, Secant, Contiguous, King post etc. using software packages including WALLAP or similar
Assessment and specification of ground improvements works
Third party review of contractor piling and shoring designs
Assessment and specification of pile tests
Tunnelling within soils and rocks
Undertake geo-environmental assessments including Phase 1, 2 and 3
Construction experience in deep foundations, shoring earthworks and ground improvement
Undertake ground movement assessments due to structures and excavations and tunnelling using Pdisp or FE packages.

Essential qualities & skills required:
BEng /BSc (Hon) or equivalent discipline with minimum 5 years post graduate experience
Member or working towards associated Professional body membership
Experience and proven ability to supervise projects and project team
Experienced user of Microsoft Office.

About the Company

WSP and Parsons Brinckerhoff have combined and are now one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms. Together we provide services to transform the built environment and restore the natural environment, and our expertise ranges from environmental remediation to urban planning, from engineering iconic buildings to designing sustainable transport networks, and from developing the energy sources of the future to enabling new ways of extracting essential resources. We have approximately 32,000 employees, including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors, program and construction management professionals, and various environmental experts. We are based in more than 500 offices across 39 countries worldwide.

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