Geotechnical Project Engineer

Job Description

Grow Your Geotechnical Career with Terracon

Are you a geotechnical engineer with a solid foundation of experience and a desire to take on more leadership, complexity, and impact? Terracon is expanding, and we're looking for a Project Geotechnical Engineer who's ready to elevate their career in a dynamic, supportive, and opportunity‑rich environment.

As a key member of our geotechnical team, you'll step into a role that blends hands‑on technical work, project leadership, and cross‑disciplinary collaboration. This is an ideal opportunity for a mid‑career professional aiming to sharpen their expertise, increase project autonomy, and contribute directly to meaningful infrastructure and development projects.

What You'll Lead & Learn

In this role, you will:

* Take ownership of field investigations, guiding project teams and ensuring quality data collection.

* Perform advanced engineering analyses and calculations, applying and expanding your technical skill set.

* Develop clear, actionable recommendations, plans, and specifications that drive project design and execution.

* Oversee construction observation and inspections, helping ensure safe, compliant, high‑quality outcomes.

* Prepare and review technical reports, building your reputation as a trusted advisor to clients and colleagues.

You'll also gain exposure across a wide range of sectors - from transportation and public works to commercial, energy, communications, and industrial - giving you the variety and depth needed to accelerate your career.

Why Terracon is the Next Step in Your Journey

* Grow your influence by taking on elevated project responsibilities and client-facing opportunities.

* Deepen your technical expertise through diverse, impactful projects and collaboration with seasoned senior engineers.

* Strengthen your leadership skills by guiding junior staff and contributing to team development.

* Advance your career with a national firm that champions professional growth and internal mobility.

This position offers a flexible, hybrid work environment and can be based out of our Minneapolis or St. Paul offices.

Essential

Roles and Responsibilities:

* Follow safety rules, guidelines and standards for all projects. Participate in pre-task planning. Report any safety issues or concerns to management.

* Provide and lead continuous quality monitoring and improvement on projects. Monitor and promote quality standards and practices.

* Provide consistent quality standards on project and proposal delivery.

* Career level, fully competent engineering professional with responsibility for managing detailed phases of projects with moderate size and complexity.

* Independently perform a variety projects or selected segments of larger projects.

* Plan, schedule, conduct, and/or coordinate detailed phases of assigned project work.

* Work closely with senior-level project managers to gain additional project management experience for more complex and larger projects.

* Make design, engineering, and construction recommendations, adaptations and modifications.

* Prepare proposals and reports for small and large projects of varying complexity.

* Perform quality control review of proposals written by others.

* Evaluate complex laboratory and field data for inclusion in reports.

* Serve as a technical adviser to junior-level project team members.

* Interact directly with client and project team on developing scope of services, communicating project progress and findings and recommendations.

* Write and prepare routine and complex engineering reports detailing services provided, findings, and recommendations.

* Participate in marketing, sales and business development.

* Supervise graduate, field and project engineering staff.

* Work under the supervision of a Terracon Authorized Project Reviewer.

* Begin documented mentoring and application process for Terracon Authorized Project Reviewer certification.

Requirements:

* Bachelor's degree in Civil, Geological or Geo Engineering.

* Minimum 5-8 years' experience.

* Master's degree in engineering preferred.

* Valid driver's license with acceptable violation history.

* Professional Engineer (PE) registration.

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