Senior Heavy Civil & Earthworks Engineer

Role description:

We are seeking a Senior Heavy Civil and Earthworks Engineer to join our field-based construction supervision team in Vancouver. The role suits an engineer who has come up through heavy civil construction and who knows how large earthmoving and concrete operations actually run, what they cost in time when they go wrong, and what has to be right before the next activity starts.

This is a full-time site-based position. The Senior Heavy Civil and Earthworks Engineer supervises the heavy civil scope during Engineering Services During Construction, covering bulk earthworks and reclamation, cast in place and precast concrete structures, retaining walls, culverts and crossings, pavements and roadworks, hardstands and yard areas, site grading and drainage, temporary works and the civil interfaces with marine, utility and building packages.

The position carries Engineer of Record responsibility for the heavy civil works under supervision, including the conduct and documentation of field reviews, the acceptance of workmanship and materials, and the certification that the constructed works substantially conform with the design. The role is not a design office position and does not involve production work in design or modelling software. It is also distinct from the geotechnical field engineering function.

Ground behaviour, instrumentation interpretation and ground improvement verification sit with the geotechnical Engineer of Record, and this role works alongside that person rather than duplicating them.

In this role you will act as the Engineer of Record for the heavy civil works under your supervision. You will set and carry out the field review programme, document each review, apply your professional seal where required, and certify substantial conformance with the design documents, the specifications and the applicable codes.

You will supervise the construction of civil structures on site, covering excavation and formation, blinding, formwork and falsework, reinforcement fixing and cover, concrete placement, finishing and curing, joint and waterstop installation, precast erection and connection, and the installation of embedded items and fixings. You will hold inspection points before pour and before cover, and you will release work only when it is right.

You will supervise bulk earthworks as a construction operation, covering the sequencing of cut, haul and fill, the management of haul roads and working platforms, layer placement and control, the balance between borrow, stockpile and disposal, and the coordination of earthworks with the structures, utilities and marine fronts so that the works do not block one another. You will review the contractor plant, resourcing and production assumptions against the programme and raise the shortfall early when the numbers do not support the dates.

You will supervise roadworks and pavement construction through subbase, base, binder and surface courses, together with kerbs, drainage, culverts, crossings, barriers, signage and line marking, and you will confirm the finished levels, falls, tolerances and ride quality against the specification.

You will control setting out and survey verification for the civil works, reviewing the contractor survey control, checking as constructed levels and alignments against the drawings, and confirming that tolerances have been met before following on trades take over. You will review quantities, survey pickups and volume reconciliations to support measurement and the technical assessment of change.

You will review contractor submissions for the civil scope, including method statements, inspection and test plans, temporary works and falsework designs, lifting and access plans, concrete mix designs, material submittals and testing procedures, and you will confirm that what is proposed matches the design intent and can be built safely in the sequence proposed.

You will coordinate with the geotechnical Engineer of Record on formation acceptance, excavation support, dewatering, slope stability and ground improvement, taking the geotechnical position into your own acceptance of the civil works rather…