Project Geotechnical Engineer III

The Water Business Unit of AECOM is actively seeking a proactive Project Geotechnical Engineer.  This position is located in our Germantown, MD office. The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, those listed below:

• Performing and managing small to medium-sized geotechnical projects and working closely with other disciplines to meet the project needs under the supervision of senior engineers
• Mentoring younger engineers
• Planning and oversight of subsurface investigation programs.
• Adhere to AECOM safety culture and maintain a safe work environment
• Assigning, reviewing, and performing statistical analysis on the results of the geotechnical laboratory testing
• Performing and reviewing design calculations for pavements, shallow and deep foundations, tunnel components, retaining walls, temporary and permanent support of excavation
• Perform and peer review settlement analyses, ground improvement analyses, slope stability analyses, seepage analyses,
• Working with the geophysics group to manage combined subsurface exploration programs
• Prepare engineering reports and memoranda
• Working in multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists with effective collaboration.
• Performing construction oversight
• Reviewing design reports and calculations performed by other firms and providing detailed review comments.
• Reviewing construction submittals and providing detailed review comments.
• Finding opportunities to bring innovation to the operations using data science, data analytics, and artificial intelligence.
• Participating in local professional events to represent AECOM
• Travel for projects domestically and internationally for one week to a month at a time.