Senior Geotechnical Engineer

Job Overview:

The Senior Geotechnical Engineer uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Geotechnical discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Geotechnical discipline. They solve complex problems and use their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Geotechnical Engineer impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Geotechnical team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.  

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Perform Conceptual & FEED Studies and detailed analyses and design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards
• Direct Geotechnical team as a Team Lead on small projects
• Apply knowledge and skills to a wide range of standard and nonstandard situations
• Prepare clear and accurate detailed design calculations and analyses including design reports and procedures
• Manage own time to meet agreed deadlines and budgets and develop plans for short-term work activities in own area
• Communicate and explain complex issues and work to establish an understanding
• Report to the Civil Department Manager, the Senior Geotechnical Engineer will work in collaboration with the foundation, structural engineers, and other design disciplines to provide technical inputs to a multi-disciplinary project team; this may involve working on multiple projects as the need arises
• Geotechnical and foundation work handled by the Discipline includes the design of deep and shallow foundations for onshore facilities, but knowledge of offshore foundation design would also be beneficial
• Prepare the scope of work of geotechnical and geophysical site investigations, laboratory test assignments for pipelines and LNG/petrochemical plants  
• Geotechnical calculation and preparation of technical reports, specifications, and contract documents  
• Interpret ground investigation data from site investigation  
• Derive parameters for the foundation design of LNG & petrochemical plants  
• Calculation of pile capacity, pile group response, pile drivability, pile group efficiency, soil-pile-structure interaction analysis  
• Calculation of gravity base and shallow foundations bearing pressure, settlement, sliding resistance, retaining walls, horizontal-vertical-moment interaction  
• Earthwork design, specification, and implementation  
• Seismic and dynamic soil structure interaction including machine foundations, seismic slope stability, and seismic hazard analysis  
• Geohazard assessment and recommendations for risk mitigation, ground improvement, liquefaction, and scour
• Novel foundation concepts   

      Reports to:  
      Project: Lead Engineer/Project Engineering Manager  
      Functional: CSA Department Manager  
      Liaise With: All Engineering disciplines, Fabrication Group, Safety Dept, Document Control, Procurement Group, 
      Subcontractors and Vendors, and Customers 
      Supervises: Engineers

Essential Qualifications and Education:

• Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in Engineering
• 8-15 years of experience in oil and gas with major contractors or consultants predominantly performing detail design  
• Strong working knowledge of many design techniques and analysis methods, and detailed knowledge of the content and application of standards codes and guidelines as applicable
• Preferably a Chartered member (or actively planning to become Chartered) of the Institute of Civil Engineers or a similar professional engineering society
• Produce accurate work and possess the required geotechnical skills to demonstrate a high level of knowledge and experience
• Be capable of providing technical input, services, and leadership to projects including geotechnical calculations, reports, drawings, and other project documentation as well as being familiar with national standards and codes of practice e.g., Eurocode 7, etc.  
• Team Player and able to work independently with minimum supervision and possess good verbal and written communication skills
• Able to make competent contributions to the resolution of geotechnical issues
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and guidance to others and, where relevant, share the experience with the wider department
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience of ground investigation methods (sample boreholes, cone penetration tests, pressure meter, etc.)  with the preparation of laboratory testing programs for foundation design  
• Knowledge of offshore foundation design methods would be beneficial  
• Experience in numerical modeling and geotechnical software including FE analysis, SLOPE, and ABAQUS is preferred but not essential  
• Full familiarity with MS Word, Excel, etc. 

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