Job Description:

Summary:

The person in this position will be part of an innovative geotechnical engineering team with over 80 engineers and geologists. The team provides a wide array of services related to foundations, dams, embankments, landslide stabilization, soil-structure interaction, earth-retaining structures, excavations, and underground structures. We also offer geotechnical services for ground improvement, numerical modeling, instrumentation and monitoring, in-situ testing, soil dynamics and earthquake engineering, geosynthetics, and groundwater/seepage.

Key responsibilities may include:

• Assisting with projects from concept through construction and operation
• Maintaining and developing client relationships
• Supporting multidisciplinary teams across offices
• Preparing proposals and cost estimates for geotechnical investigations
• Coordinating field and laboratory testing
• Interpreting and analyzing geotechnical data to establish material parameters
• Performing geotechnical engineering analyses including seepage, slope stability, and consolidation
• Performing dam safety inspections
• Preparing reports
• Providing geotechnical investigation and construction oversight
• Traveling for periodic out-of-town assignments

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering with a geotechnical emphasis
• 5 years of traditional geotechnical engineering work experience
• Professional Engineer (PE) license or ability to obtain in one year
• Strong geotechnical analysis and design skills
• Demonstrated flexibility and willingness to modify personal schedule as required to meet project deadlines and/or client needs
• Willingness and ability to travel to support project needs
• Ability to lift and carry equipment weighing 30 pounds or more
• Computer skills including word processing and spreadsheet development
• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
• Ability to work cooperatively in a project team environment that encourages self-initiative
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without the need for sponsorship
• Acceptable driving record

Preferred Qualifications:

• Graduate degree in geotechnical engineering or related
• 8+ years of geotechnical design experience
• Professional Engineer (PE) license
• Training or work experience in fieldwork such as construction observation, subsurface investigations, in-situ testing, instrumentation installation, surveying, materials testing, or facility inspections
• Task management skills

A hybrid work arrangement may be considered for this position. A hybrid work arrangement refers to splitting time worked between a Barr office and a home office. This position c an be based out of Barr's Ann Arbor or Grand Rapids, Michigan, office(s).

NOTE: Applicants must be able to work in locations that feature rough terrain typical of construction sites and must be able to enter and work in facilities that include limited accessibility, moving machinery, and other conditions typical of industrial facilities. Position will occasionally require lifting or moving field-testing equipment. Safety training will be provided before being given fieldwork assignments. Applicants will be asked to participate in a drug screening program at the request of clients.

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