Senior Engineering Geologist

We are a close knit, family oriented company in the Monterey Bay, providing service mainly to Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito counties.  

The position of licensed Engineering Geologist requires the following experience:

• Working with coastal environments
• Karst hazards and risk analysis
• Geologic hazard mapping
• Geologic hazard analysis for planning and environmental impact analyses
• Coastal flooding and erosion analysis
• Landslide stability analysis, slope instrumentation and landslide repair
• Forensic studies and expert witness testimony for landslide issues
• Fault hazard and fault activity studies
• Probabilistic seismic and spectral hazards analysis

Job duties include the ability to:

• Work independently, or with team members including engineers, field and laboratory technicians.
• Interact with client, contractors and/or testing personnel to resolve field issues
• Identify and implement operational improvements to increase efficiency and reduce costs
• Evaluating, selecting, and applying standard geological methods, techniques, procedures, and criteria during the execution of geological services.
• Geologic mentoring, managing and supervision of staff, when applicable.
• Participation in meeting the firm’s business development and budgeting goals
• Overseeing quality control, report review, and management of geological operations
• Supervision of staff geologists on projects in which you were the primary geologist involved in preparation of the report. You will likely also provide supervision on other projects as well. 
• Field work including supervising mapping, trenching, large diameter drilling of test borings, on-site meetings and geological consultation for projects in the construction phase, as required.
• Geological work including analyses, preparation of geological maps, cross sections and other ancillary figures.
• Project management, including management of the work effort to completion within established budgets and schedules; maintenance of client relations.
• Prepare project related communications including geology reports, project notes, letters to clients, third party correspondence, transmittals, etc.
• Prepare and submit written and verbal communication, including daily field reports where warranted and draft geological letters/reports.
• Marketing support, including proposal preparation with scope, schedule and budget as well as new client development.
• Work closely with other professional and/or field staff to provide technical supervision and direction as necessary on a variety of projects.
• Attend safety meetings, and wear safety gear as required by company policy and/or job site regulations.
• Other work assignments as directed by the company Principal Engineer(s), or Project Geotechnical/Civil Engineer.
• Attend and participate in company-sponsored training and/or seminar activities to develop and maintain professional development and licensure.
• Other duties normally performed by an Engineering Geologist employed by a geotechnical engineering firm.

Benefits include paid medical/dental/vision benefits, paid vacation, 401k, company vehicle, company credit card for incidental expenses, cell phone stipend.