Geotechnical Project Engineer

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 opportunityrich environment.

As a key member of our geotechnical team, you'll step into a role that blends handson technical work, project leadership, and crossdisciplinary collaboration. This is an ideal opportunity for a midcareer 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, highquality 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.