Senior Geotechnical Engineer

**Requisition ID**:272502**
- ** Relocation Authorized**:International - Family**:

- ** Telework Type**:Full-Time Office/Project**:

- ** Work Location**:Ras Al Khair**

**Company Overview**:
Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.
Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers’ objectives to create a lasting positive impact.
We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy, and Mining & Metals markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. Core to Bechtel are our values - ethics, safety, quality, people, culture, relationships, innovation and sustainability, and our covenants - integrity, respect, collaboration, trust, and delivery. They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver.

**Position Summary**:
Jubail is one of Bechtel’s most remarkable achievements—a city built from the sand up, requiring vast resources and logístical planning on an unprecedented scale. It the biggest civil engineering project in modern times—and it's getting bigger. Bechtel has managed the Jubail project, located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, since it began in the mid-1970s. Saudi Arabian Bechtel Company (SABCO) serves as the Management Services Contractor (MSC), or “owner’s representative” for our client, the Royal Commission (RC). We are the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) managers, managing design submissions from local AE firms, and overseeing the actual construction work being performed by local contractors and sub-contractors in Jubail and Ras-Al-Khair Industrial Cities. In June 2021, Bechtel’s contract with the Royal Commission was renewed for another 5 years with work focusing on building new residential communities, iconic buildings/ bridges, major site preparation, commercial buildings, mosques, schools, hospitals, sports facilities, clinics, universities, utility services and infrastructure (electrical sub-stations, lift stations), roads and highways, port & pipeline expansions, and more.

**Work Location: Ras-Al-Khair**

**The work location for this position is at Ras-Al-Khair which is located about 100 KMS north of Jubail Industrial City. You will be required to commute Jubail - Ras-Al-Khair - Jubail daily using the available transportation facility /shuttle bus service. The accommodation will be provided at Jubail Industrial City. Free breakfast and lunch is currently provided for Ras-Al-Khair assignees during workdays.**

**Responsibilities**:

- Developing a strategic investigation plan for the sites.
- Provide investigation design, cost estimates (Setting budget and time constraints of investigations), scope-of-work, contracts, and coordination for geotechnical investigations and soils laboratory analysis.
- Scope the field investigations for geotechnical and environmental projects and identify: sampling and logging of drill holes and test pits; Standard Penetration Test (SPT), field tests for the identification of soils using the Unified Soil Classification System including grain size and gradation, toughness, dilatancy, dry strength, etc.
- Collect, analyze, and interpret geotechnical data for building foundations, roads, other engineered structures including bearing capacity, settlement, and erosion.
- Review of Geotechnical Interpretative Reports (GIR) and working with geotechnical consultants to produce high quality co-coordinated submissions i.e., evaluate and comment on provided field observations, data, maps, and calculations in geology, geotechnical, and environmental reports including taking care of geological hazards while planning the project. Suggesting necessary changes in the project as and when required.
- Review and if required independently analyzing the ground stress which includes capacity and stress levels.
- Preserving nature and protecting the environment.
- Assists Field Engineers in solving technical problems to facilitate appropriate solutions.
- Representing the RC in technical meetings, value engineering analysis, and providing technical support to the engineering and construction departments during the design and construction phases.
- Follow-up on the workload and performance of the geotechnical consultant in the field, lab and office.
- Coordinating civil or structural engineering design with geotechnical assessment reports.
- Ensure that the progress of the engineering studies, the schedule of deliverables and the technical requirements of the contract are met.
- Identifies opportunities to innovate and improve geotechnical processes, procedures and deliverables.
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