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Role Description

GAI Consultants, Inc. (GAI) is seeking a Senior EIT 2 to work out of our Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, Cranberry, or Canonsburg/Southpointe), West Virginia (Bridgeport or Charleston), or Virginia (Richmond or Warrenton) offices, with an option to work remotely while based out of one of those office locations. Under the direction of a Geotechnical Engineering Manager, this individual will provide geotechnical engineering and project site support for projects in the Energy, Transportation and Community Development business units. The position will require travel and fieldwork generally located in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia. This position is eligible for a sign-on bonus.

• Perform geotechnical engineering assignments involving investigations for a variety of facilities including, but not limited to:
  • Foundations for transmission lines, buildings, roadways, bridges, retaining walls, dams, and other structures
  • Designs for embankments and cut slopes for roadways and other developments
  • Designs for natural gas pipelines and compressor stations
  • Design of waste landfills and impoundments
  • Development of geotechnical monitoring and laboratory testing programs
• Prepare geotechnical engineering designs involving:
  • Rock/soil slope stability
  • Cut slope and fill embankment design
  • Landslide stabilization and remediation (reinforcement with rock anchors/soil nails, GRS slopes)
  • Geotechnical field instrumentation
  • Soil reinforcement and ground improvement techniques (CMCs, compaction grouting, stone columns)
  • Sheet pile/retaining walls (gravity walls, soldier pile, and lagging walls, MSE walls, T-walls)
  • Shallow and deep foundations (spread footings, driven piles, micropiles, drilled shafts)
• Geotechnical Investigation and Construction Support Services including, but not limited to:
  • Test boring monitoring and logging
  • Site reconnaissance
  • Foundation and retaining structure construction monitoring and inspection
• Responsible for interpreting specifications and construction drawings, evaluating site conditions based on construction excavations, monitoring and reporting on construction activities, and performing field testing of soils.
• Prepare proposals, budgets, schedules, calculations, specifications, and reports.
• Travel can be expected in the form of fieldwork, which can be daily local travel or weekly out-of-town travel, generally located in the Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia areas (up to 50%).

Qualifications

• Minimum 6+ years of experience
• B.S. or M.S. in Engineering
• Passed Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam and obtained engineer-in-training (EIT) or engineering-intern (EI) certification

Requirements

• Develops broad knowledge and skills in a specific practice area
• Evaluates, selects, and applies standard techniques, procedures, and criteria to perform tasks for conventional projects with few complex features
• Collaboratively uses judgment to determine adaptations in methods for nonroutine aspects of assignments
• Applies principles of probability and statistics to determine risk relevant to engineering

Benefits

• Eligible for a sign-on bonus

Communication Skills

• Possess effective oral and written communication skills
• Interacts with other staff
• Interacts with clients with close oversight
• Interacts closely with Project Managers & various Department Managerial Staff, especially with client communications
• Interacts with clients at regular project meetings