21940 - Transmission Stations Geotechnical Engineer

• The E5 – Engineer is a professional engineer or geoscientist who applies engineering knowledge to provide innovative engineering, estimating, planning, and quality management services for medium to high complexity projects and/or operations safely, with quality, within budget, and on time.



Advantages
Location : Edmonds, Hybrid with 2/3 days in the office,
Hours of work: Full-time (37.5 hrs/wk)


Responsibilities
Additional Experience and Role Accountabilities
• A minimum ten (10) years of experience in a relevant engineering field or equivalent.
• This role requires demonstrated experience with geotechnical design for Stations and associated facilities for operating voltages from 60kV to 500kV in an electric utility environment.
• Prepare project documentation and deliverables in accordance with company project and Engineering Design Practices (i.e. evaluation reports, specifications, proposals, estimates, design basis', calculations, hazard logs, test plans).
• Prepare design work packages including scope, duration, and level of effort estimates.
• Prepare signed and sealed engineering deliverables as a Professional Geoscientist and as a Professional of Record (PoR) in accordance with EGBC Design Practices.
• Provide technical assistance and construction support in the field, and undertake field reviews as required by EGBC.
• Prepare designs for existing and new facilities.
• Undertake site investigations of surface and subsurfaces to establish geotechnical ground conditions and soil classification.
• Perform various in situ field tests such as standard penetration test, cone penetration, dynamic cone penetrometer.

Examples of Owner's Engineer review and acceptance tasks:
A. Site Specific Seismic Ground Response Analysis including: a) applicability of seismic scenarios (shallow, inter-slab and Cascadia types) and selected historical earthquake for a given site when the site response is being modeled, and b) dynamic ground motion response analysis using 1-D wave propagation program SHAKE®.
B. Post-seismic stability of foundations and foundation soils if found susceptible to loss of strength during a seismic event.
C. Design of Ground Improvement (GI) work such as vibro-replacement, deep soil mixing, jet grouting or dynamic compaction.
D. Detailed and standardized terrain mapping (following EGBC’s guidelines).
E. Conducting WEAP analysis and preparing Pile Load Testing program for a given project.

Examples of Engineer of Record tasks:
1. Site investigation program including: i) devising drilling and in-situ testing plan including CPT, ii) setting up instrumentation installation and its monitoring plan, and iii) devising index and advanced lab testing plan
2. Settlement calculation and preload design, including wick drain design, instrumentation set up and its monitoring program.
3. Foundation design input such as: bearing capacity, uplift capacity, lateral capacity (for shallow foundation of tower structures) including passive and base resistances, frost depth and estimation of adfreezing forces.
4. Conventional pile design (driven steel piles and augered CIP as examples) including those that need to tolerate seismic loadings when soil is identified as liquefiable. etc.

Qualifications
•Registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) or Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) with Engineers & Geoscientists BC or with another jurisdiction and eligible for registration as such with Engineers & Geoscientists BC
•Intermediate English skills for professional environment, written and spoken
•Familiarity with CAD systems and drawing standards
•Ability to use standard industry design/analysis software
•Intermediate MS Office skills (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)


Summary
Location: Edmonds - Hybrid with 2/3 days in the office, no remote applications for this position.

Interested candidates can submit their resumes to John at john.yamazaki@randstad.ca or Karthink at karthikeyan.venkataramana@randstad.ca

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