Intermediate Geotechnical Engineer

As an Intermediate Geotechnical Engineer with experience in geotechnical engineering for the infrastructure market, you will have the opportunity to work on exciting, multi-faceted, high-profile projects in the heart of our city, Alberta, Western Canada, and around the world. You will expand your academic training, people skills, and professional practice by developing and implementing technical solutions, engaging with other disciplines and sub-consultants, managing and coordinating teams, and liaising closely with our client representatives. You will also have the opportunity to see your designs come to fruition in the field as you work on all aspects of the delivery process from feasibility studies to construction..

You will be part of an award-winning Infrastructure group in Alberta and advance your career in our One Team culture that builds strong, collaborative and focused teams who enjoy themselves throughout project delivery. We value a winning attitude, a hunger for learning and innovation, adaptability and flexibility, respectful engagement with our team and our client representatives, and a sense of fun.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Be the project coordinator on challenging projects that involves civil, hydrotechnical, geotechnical, hydrogeological, environmental, and regulatory disciplines. This excellent opportunity will enable you to expand your technical tool box, project management capabilities, and client liaison and business acumen skills;

• Build upon and diversify your technical skills on a variety of civil engineering projects with a focus on geotechnical engineering, that may involve: field programs, slope stability analysis, foundation design, piling, civil design, geohazard risk management, dam design, and dam safety related assignments;

• Be involved in all stages of a project, from concept to completion, including: undertaking the design; preparing design reports, drawings, specifications, and tender documents; providing support throughout the tender process; managing construction contracts whilst providing technical support and undertaking inspections;

• Develop your project management skills under the guidance of senior engineers; being the point of contact on projects; learning to foster long-term relationships with our key clients and our sub-consultants; and managing technical resources, sub-consultant input, cost and schedule as part of project delivery;

• Manage and train junior engineers, actively supporting their career development;

• Broaden your professional practice by working on multi-disciplinary engineering projects while maintaining your focus on civil and geotechnical engineering;

• Work throughout western Canada with potential opportunities to travel internationally;

• Work in a dynamic company culture with a diverse, hands-on, small, and hard-working office team that supports career development and diversification.

We respect the knowledge and experience you have gained to date and are willing to help you build on it. We do however request the following minimum qualifications:

• A Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Civil Engineering

• Registered or eligible to register as a Professional Engineer

• Have a minimum of 5 years’ of experience in a similar consulting environment

We value your:

• Work experience on civil engineering and multi-disciplinary projects;

• Strong initiative, innovation, commitment to technical excellence and continuous learning, enthusiasm, and drive toward long-term success;

• Strong verbal and written communication skills including experience in contributing to proposals, technical reports, presentations to client representatives, providing clear direction to project team members and sub-consultants, and general project correspondence; and

• Exceptional team spirit, interpersonal skills and ability to build long-term, successful relationships with our client representatives and project teams; and

• Solid time management and organizational skills.

Along with continued career development, KCB offers:

• Hybrid home-office work opportunities.

• Competitive wages.

• Vacation policy that aligns to your experience.

• Paid volunteer time, overtime, and sick days.

• Professional registration support.

• Retirement planning and flexibility through group RRSP options.

• Flexible health benefits, including social and mental well-being initiatives.

• Commitment to global Environmental, Social, and Governance standards.

About Us:

Klohn Crippen Berger Ltd. (KCB) is a multi-disciplinary consulting firm with five major business units providing engineering and environmental services in the mining, hydropower, transportation, ports, infrastructure, geotechnical, oil & gas, environmental, and water resources sectors. We offer a full range of services from our offices in North America, Australia, South America, and Europe.

From our offices in Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, York (UK), Naas (Ireland), Sweden and the Dominican Republic, our EMIE Group works on challenging projects in the Water, Power and Transportation, Energy, Mining, and Environmental market sectors.

KCB is a platinum member of Canada’s Best Managed companies. We are committed to employment equity and encourage applications from all qualified career seekers. We offer professional career development tracks and salaries commensurate with experience and an attractive benefits package.

Are you up to the challenge?

If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, simply apply on-line with your résumé.

We thank all candidates for applying, however only short-listed candidates will be contacted.