Geotechnical Principal Design Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

The purpose of this position is to provide the essential administrative processes, technical knowledge, and direction as 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 internal geotechnical engineering consultant to projects.

Principal Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides geotechnical engineering expertise for Civil/Structural/Architectural (CSA), Pipelines, and Marine Terminals engineering functions.

• Performs detailed geotechnical analysis and design on onshore, coastal, nearshore, and offshore projects.

• Prepares scopes of work for 3rd-party geotechnical engineering services.

• Reviews and approves 3rd-party proposals, design calculations, drawings, and reports.

• Provides support to Lead Engineers from CSA, Pipeline, and Marine Terminals Lead on projects.

Preferred Qualifications

• Registered Professional Engineer

• Minimum ten (10) 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