Senior Consultant | Geotechnical

Location: Asheville, NC;
Charlotte, NC, Columbia, SC;
Greenville, SC or Spartanburg, SC

Report To: Department Manager

Status: Full-Time

As a Senior Geotechnical Engineering Consultant for Bunnell Lammons Engineering, Inc. (BLE), you will play a crucial role in advancing excellence within our growing Regional Geotech Group. Your responsibilities include serving our long-term clients, expanding our current geotechnical capabilities, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment, and cultivating enduring professional relationships. This role offers a favorable work-life balance while providing opportunities to contribute to challenging and distinctive engineering projects.

Our Geotechnical group focuses on serving projects for our solid waste, mining, and power industry clients. These projects span a multitude of geotechnical support roles, from geotechnical exploration in support of Phase 1 Development and infrastructure/support structure design to geotechnical support during site operation and closure, as well as geologic hazard mitigation (structural improvements, ground improvements, and slope stabilization, etc.).

Join us in shaping the future of geotechnical engineering while becoming a part of BLE’s next generation of leaders.

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering with a geotechnical focus. Masters is preferred.
• 10-25 years of relevant professional experience.
• Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in South Carolina or North Carolina, with the ability to become licensed in additional southeastern states within six months.
• Extensive knowledge of geotechnical design and construction requirements for retaining structures, deep foundations, earthwork construction, and ground improvement technology. Knowledge of construction practices and design of solid waste and containment facilities and geosynthetics design.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time for site meetings, marketing, technical seminars, regulatory seminars, engineering workshops, and client development within the southeastern US.

• Perform technical oversight, project management, client management, and business development for the Regional Geotech Group under the direction of the Geotechnical Department Manager.
• Provide mentorship and coaching to staff and project-level engineers within the geotechnical group.
• Cultivate strategic partnerships and relationships with key stakeholders in the public and private sectors, including industry leaders, potential clients, and government entities, to drive business growth and enhance market position.
• Oversee and contribute to internal training seminars, as requested by the Technical Services Director, to promote continuous learning and knowledge-sharing within the organization.
• Review proposals and actively participate in business development activities to identify new revenue streams.
• Review written reports and ensure quality and commitment to BLE’s clients.
• Explore and adopt new technologies to improve project efficiency, quality, and objectives, including electronic field data collection and reporting.
• Provide expert interpretation of analytical data in support of a wide variety of projects. A sample of project types may include:
• • Design support for Solid Waste site lateral or vertical expansions
  • Construction review for containment geosynthetics testing of landfill cells or closures
  • Exploration of coal combustion residue impoundment ponds
  • Geotechnical exploration and design for leachate tanks
  • Forensics investigation for slope stability failures within soils and various waste landfills.
• Geotechnical monitoring programs. Monitoring may include piezometric pressures, settlement, inclinometer, and survey of movements.
• Assignment and review of soils laboratory testing, including compaction, index, consolidation, and strength testing.

• Maintain and apply advanced expertise in geotechnical science.
• Exercise sound judgment and decision-making in evaluating complex technical challenges and risk-based site closures.
• Keep current with industry innovations, emerging methods, processes and changes in state, federal, and ASTMs governance…