Senior Geotechnical Engineer

Ground Recruitment is a Pty Ltd company established in July 2022. It exclusively provides highly specialised permanent recruitment services and high-performance coaching to geotechnical engineers, geologists and select clients across Australia and New Zealand.

Our client is a large multidisciplinary consultancy providing specialist geotechnical services with opportunities for ambitious geotechnical engineers. They have a global footprint including offices in most major cities across Australia and New Zealand with projects to match.

Due to measured growth in Queensland, my client is searching for a Senior Geotechnical Engineer or a Geotechnical Engineer ready to step up, to join the Brisbane Geotechnical Team.

Candidates with a background in site investigation or design are invited to apply, Ideally, you will have experience working in Queensland and have a solid understanding of local ground conditions and have or are close to CPEng and RPEQ

From a design perspective your experience could include working on a range of geotechnical project types including earthworks, foundation and retaining wall design, 2D and 3D settlement analysis, assessment of soft and compressible soils, deep excavations and perhaps even temporary works.

From a site investigation perspective your experience could include writing proposals, scoping up investigations, co-ordinating subbies, supervising and or performing the site work including, test pitting, hand augers, bore hole logging, monitoring CPTs, along with lab scheduling, HSE and reporting.

You should have experience writing factual reports with a level of interpretation dependant on your experience level, along with writing technical memos from a design perspective.

Exposure to software packages should include Plaxis 2D & 3D, Slide, Wallap. LimitState, CPetIt and pLog dependant on your level of project involvement.

This is a fantastic opportunity if you are looking for that next career move with a large consultancy with plenty of opportunity, training, and interesting projects.

As our director is very familiar with this client, he would welcome any calls directly on his mobile from interested candidates with the utmost confidentiality guaranteed. 0499 988 011.

Our client is running several overseas campaigns and as such has asked that we don't refer any candidates who require sponsorship at this stage.