Senior Geotechnical Engineer

6 days ago


Auckland City, New Zealand AECOM Full time

**Company Description**

**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future.

We are recruiting a Senior Geotechnical Engineer to join our well established and growing Auckland Office. This role offers you an exciting opportunity to contribute to the success of our 40 strong national Ground Engineering team, to work with and support colleagues from a variety of engineering and environmental disciplines and to assist in the growth of our Ground Engineering and Tunneling team.

We are looking for an ambitious team player who is looking for an opportunity to assist in the development of innovative, cost-effective and buildable solutions in an environment that is collaborative, stimulating and fast-paced. Your extensive geotechnical consultancy experience, in particular, strong capability in geotechnical studies, investigation and design for highway earthworks, bridge foundations, retaining structures and strengthened earthworks will add to our teams existing strengths.

Nationally our Ground Engineering team provides one-stop access to services ranging from project management, feasibility studies, detailed design and construction supervision for geotechnical works.
- You will provide technical support to both internal and external clients to a high level of technical quality, to programme and budget
- Interpret and record data, conducts analyses, compare findings to relevant studies and local, provincial and national regulations to ensure compliance
- Undertake design and reporting of a wide variety of geotechnical works including geotechnical interpretation, slope stability, foundations, retaining structures, earthworks and ground improvement
- Conduct research and investigation as required
- Plan and organise project studies
- Assist in resolving conflicting technical information and unsuitability of standard procedures
- Perform complex assignments requiring the development of unique solutions to problems
- May oversee the work of less experienced engineers

**Qualifications**
- Degree in Civil Engineering with Geotechnical Engineering as their specialisation.

**Additional Information**

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

**Join us and let’s get started.**

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM Join us, and



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