Geotechnical Design Engineer IV

Job Description

The purpose of this position is to provide the essential administrative processes, technical knowledge, and perform the work listed. This role has the responsibility to promote Fluor's competitiveness within the global marketplace by delivering quality services of unmatched value and technical competence. This position serves as an Area Lead or Lead on assigned projects or performs moderately complex engineering assignments, evaluates, selects, and applies standard engineering techniques to a broad set of complex assignments.

• Apply Cost Competitive Execution techniques to develop the most cost-effective total project solution for execution of the discipline engineering work

• Develop and review specifications, including design criteria

• Participate in activities associated with equipment and material procurement, permitting, and subcontracting

• Perform and check calculations, specify equipment, and solve moderately complex engineering problems

• Review vendor equipment documentation within the discipline and from other disciplines for compliance with project requirements, and actively seek discrepancy resolution

• Analyze and make independent recommendations regarding solutions to problems with varying complexity in accordance with organization and/or project objectives and guidelines

• Other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Registered Professional Engineer

• Minimum eight (8) years of geotechnical engineering design experience, including experience in petrochemical plants, nuclear power plants, onshore pipelines, and ports and marine terminals

• Proficient user of GIS and/or CAD software for integration of topographic, geological, and geotechnical data

• Capable of designing foundations, earth retaining structures, earthworks, working platforms, and pavements for petrochemical plants and nuclear power plants

• Capable of mapping, assessing, and designing mitigation of geohazards, especially slopes, for onshore and offshore pipelines, including routing of onshore and offshore pipelines

• Capable of developing pipe-soil interaction models for onshore and offshore pipelines, both buried and unburied, including pipe-soil interaction in permafrost

• Capable of scoping and managing seismic hazard assessments and performing seismic site-response analyses

• Capable of designing marine foundations (piled structures, sheet pile and quay structures), subsea foundations (nearshore FSRU mooring and anchoring), and dredging, disposal, and reclamation works