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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Follow safety rules, guidelines and standards for all projects. Participate in pre-task planning and 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 of 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.

• 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.

The expected salary range for this position is listed below. The base range may be adjusted based on the specific location of the applicant. Final agreed upon compensation is based upon individual qualifications and…