Geotechnical Engineer - Water Management

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. **Role description:** Arcadis is seeking an experienced **Geotechnical Engineer** to join our National Water Management Team and Water South team. . In this role, you’ll play a key part in delivering impactful projects that directly support communities across the country. You’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to take projects from concept through construction—gaining exposure to complex infrastructure challenges while building your technical and project leadership capabilities. This role will perform geotechnical analyses for levees, dams, floodwalls, and other hydraulic structures. This is an opportunity to step into increased ownership, develop leadership skills, expand your client-facing experience, and grow your career with a globally recognized leader in water engineering. **Role accountabilities:** As a Geotechnical Engineer, you will play a key role in delivering engineering and consulting services for a variety of projects, including those focused on flood risk reduction, waterfront infrastructure resilience, dam safety, lock and navigation structure design etc. You’ll partner closely with clients and internal leaders to shape project scope, develop innovative solutions, and ensure successful, on-time delivery. Beyond project execution, you’ll mentor entry-level engineers—making a visible impact both within the organization and across the communities we serve. Additional duties include: - Preparation of geotechnical recommendations that aid in the development of designs, drawings, specifications, and reports - Work with our multi-disciplinary Water Management team that includes Civil, Structural, and Geotechnical Engineers to deliver innovative designs for our clients - Data evaluation of instrumentation systems at levees, spillways, outlet works, and slopes. - Assists in planning and coordinating geotechnical field investigations. Design and analyses of other heavy civil and earthen structures will be a part of this role in addition to preparing design/bid packages for permitting/construction, and coordinating and overseeing construction administration, and inspection services. - Planning field exploration and laboratory testing programs. - Some travel may be required to project site visits, client meetings, safety audits, construction oversight, etc. **Required Qualifications:** - Bachelor’s degree in Geotechnical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Geological Engineering, or related field. - Minimum of 8 years of geotechnical experience. - EIT/PE Certification **Preferred Qualifications:** - Master's degree in Civil Engineering. - 8 years of geotechnical experience. - Experience in managing project teams and collaborating with other technical disciplines. Proficiency in using programs such as gINT, SEEPW, SLOPEW, CWALSHT, PYWall, LPILE, and GROUP - Experience in geotechnical analyses for dams, levees, cofferdams, and foundations for various hydraulic structures. Seepage, static and seismic stability analysis, liquefaction analysis, deformation analysis, and foundation and settlement analysis experience. Why Arcadis? We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy. Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $112,000 - $169,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location. #LI-RT4 #Resilience-NA #Water-NA