Geotechnical Technical Coordinator

About the Project:

The Eglinton Crosstown West Extension will bring the Eglinton Crosstown LRT another 9.2 kilometers farther west, creating a continuous rapid transit line from the east end of Toronto into Mississauga. The Stations, Rail, and Systems (SRS) package encompasses the design, construction, integration, and commissioning of key project components.

Position Overview

TRP has a current vacancy for a Geotechnical Technical Coordinator to support the technical delivery and coordination of geotechnical activities across the ECWE SRS project.

Reporting to the Geotechnical & Foundations Technical Lead, the Geotechnical Technical Coordinator will coordinate geotechnical design inputs, investigations, technical reviews, construction support, construction impact assessment, instrumentation and monitoring, geotechnical records, and interfaces between geotechnical consultants, designers, construction teams, subcontractors, and other technical disciplines.

The position will support geotechnical requirements across underground stations, excavations, tunnels, portals, emergency exit buildings, elevated guideway foundations, utility works, temporary works, and other infrastructure within the SRS scope.

The successful candidate will have practical experience in geotechnical engineering coordination within major civil infrastructure, transportation, transit, tunnelling, excavation, foundation, or construction projects. The role requires a strong understanding of geotechnical principles and the ability to translate technical requirements into coordinated constructible solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate geotechnical, geological, and hydrogeological activities across assigned project work packages and serve as the primary interface between designers, consultants, construction teams, subcontractors, and project management.
• Review and coordinate geotechnical, hydrogeological, SOE, SEM, tunnelling, foundation, excavation support, temporary works, and related technical reports, calculations, drawings, specifications, shop drawings, method statements, and technical submissions.
• Ensure geotechnical requirements, design assumptions, and risk considerations are effectively integrated into multidisciplinary designs, including stations, tunnels, shafts, portals, caverns, elevated guideways, foundations, utilities, trackwork, and temporary works.
• Coordinate and review geotechnical investigations, borehole drilling programs, laboratory testing, groundwater assessments, geological mapping, and site characterization activities to support design development and construction.
• Review, interpret, and communicate geotechnical investigation findings, including soil and rock conditions, groundwater conditions, laboratory testing results, and subsurface risks to project team.
• Identify discrepancies between geotechnical assumptions, design documentation, construction methodologies, and observed field conditions, and coordinate development of appropriate technical solutions.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary design teams to ensure geotechnical, geological, and hydrogeological requirements are fully integrated into the design of stations, ancillary facilities, portals, tail tracks, track alignments, structures, and utilities.
• Coordinate geotechnical interfaces across all project disciplines, ensuring ground conditions, foundation requirements, excavation constraints, groundwater considerations, and geotechnical risks are appropriately addressed throughout design development, construction planning, and project execution.
• Provide technical support during excavation, tunnelling, SEM works, shaft and cavern construction, foundation installation, earthworks, dewatering, and temporary works activities.
• Review geotechnical aspects of construction methodologies, excavation sequencing, support systems, dewatering strategies, and constructability considerations to optimize safety, schedule, cost, and construction efficiency.
• Coordinate technical assessment and resolution of differing site conditions, unexpected ground conditions, groundwater issues, settlement, deformation, obstructions, and other geotechnical challenges encountered during construction.
• Coordinate geotechnical requirements for deep excavations, support of excavation systems, shoring, bracing, underpinning, anchors, temporary works, and protection of adjacent infrastructure, utilities, roadways, and structures.
• Support technical coordination of foundation systems, including piles, caissons, drilled shafts, retaining structures, elevated guideway foundations, and associated testing and verification programs.
• Coordinate groundwater management, hydrogeological assessments, dewatering activities, and groundwater control measures, and evaluate their impacts on excavation performance, settlement, temporary works, and permanent structures.
• Coordinate geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring programs, including settlement, ground movement, inclinometers, piezometers, groundwater levels, vibration, structural movement, and excavation support monitoring; review trends and escalate trigger-level exceedances.
• Coordinate responses to RFIs, technical queries, design reviews, NCRs, technical submissions, field issues, and design changes, ensuring timely closure of comments, actions, and technical decisions.
• Identify, evaluate, and manage geotechnical risks related to ground conditions, groundwater, excavation stability, tunnelling, foundations, temporary works, adjacent structures, utilities, and construction activities; support development and implementation of mitigation measures.
• Support Progressive Design-Build activities by facilitating collaboration between designers, construction teams, consultants, TRP technical team, and project stakeholders, ensuring field observations and construction experience are incorporated into design development.
• Ensure geotechnical activities comply with project specifications, approved designs, applicable standards, codes, quality requirements, and project procedures, while supporting audits, technical compliance reviews, inspections, and testing programs.
• Maintain geotechnical action logs, risk registers, issue trackers, monitoring records, technical correspondence, design review comments, and project documentation, ensuring traceability of decisions and approvals.
• Prepare technical reports, coordination summaries, management updates, dashboards, presentations, and project status reports, and provide regular updates to the Technical/Engineering Manager.
• Support project closeout activities, including compilation of final investigation records, testing results, monitoring data, as-built geotechnical information, lessons learned, and handover documentation, while ensuring all outstanding geotechnical issues are resolved.
• Ensure compliance with project health, safety, environmental, and quality requirements, and immediately report or escalate unsafe conditions, differing site conditions, and significant geotechnical risks.
• Comply with all TRP and project-specific health, safety, and environmental requirements, including completion of mandatory training, site orientations, toolbox talks, and hazard assessments.

Qualifications & Experience:

The following responsibilities apply across all geotechnical, geological, hydrogeological, and underground construction activities undertaken within the ECWE-SRS project.

These responsibilities support planning, design review, construction, monitoring, verification, and project closeout activities across a broad range of geotechnical, geological, and hydrogeological work packages.

This includes the review and coordination of Geotechnical Design Reports (GDRs), Hydrogeological Reports, Construction Impact Assessment Reports (CIARs), Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring Plans (GIMPs), Impact Mitigation Plans (IMPs), Support of Excavation (SOE) reports and designs, Sequential Excavation Method (SEM) reports and designs, temporary works designs, Hydrogeology Reports, and other geotechnical technical deliverables.

The responsibilities apply to a wide range of project activities, including but not limited to geotechnical investigations (GI), borehole drilling programs, deep excavations, SOE systems, shafts, station boxes, caverns, tunnelling and SEM works, foundations and piling, earthworks, groundwater and dewatering systems, instrumentation and monitoring programs, temporary works, and other geotechnically sensitive construction activities, while ensuring effective integration of design requirements, field conditions, construction methodologies, risk management, and project delivery objectives.

• Bachelor's degree or diploma in Geotechnical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Geological Engineering, Geology, Construction Engineering, or related discipline.

• Typically, 3–5 years of relevant experience in geotechnical engineering, technical coordination, construction engineering, or infrastructure delivery.

• Experience on major transit, rail, tunnelling, underground construction, transportation, civil infrastructure, or building projects is strongly preferred.

• Experience coordinating geotechnical activities across design and construction environments.

• Practical experience with excavation, shoring, foundations, tunnelling, ground improvement, groundwater, or geotechnical monitoring.

• Experience reviewing geotechnical reports, drawings, specifications, calculations, and technical submissions.

• Experience working with multidisciplinary engineering and construction teams.

• Experience within a Design-Build, Progressive Design-Build, P3, EPC, or major capital-project environment is an asset.

• Experience with urban construction and projects involving existing utilities, roads, buildings, and infrastructure is preferred.

• P.Eng. or eligibility for professional registration with Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) is an asset.
• PMP, CET, or other relevant technical/project designation is considered an asset.

What TRP Can Offer You:

• Competitive Salary
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Employer Matching Retirement Program
• Life insurance

At TRP, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants throughout the recruitment and selection process.

We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.