Project Engineer - Tunnels

About Delve Underground

Delve Underground is a leader in heavy civil engineering, serving the transportation, water, wastewater, and energy industries. Specializing in tunnels and underground infrastructure, we provide innovative solutions to the most challenging underground problems. Offering comprehensive design, construction management, and dispute-resolution capabilities, our expertise includes civil, structural, and geotechnical engineering. Founded in 1954, Delve Underground is an employee-owned firm with 21 offices and over 330 team members throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

We want our employees to make a career doing what they love to do. We encourage an entrepreneurial spirit and help our team members forge their own path within the company. We support their efforts to stay on the cutting edge of technology while fostering a great work-life balance. In addition to working hard, we also have fun. We socialize and celebrate achievements at summer picnics, holiday parties, and company outings.

We are pleased to accept applications from underrepresented groups and encourage applications from Indigenous persons, youth, new immigrants, and persons with disabilities.

Project Engineer - Tunnels

Delve Underground has an opportunity available for a Project Engineer to join its team in Vancouver. This position is well suited for an engineer (degree either in civil or geological engineering) with an interest in consulting engineering for the heavy civil and underground construction industry. The company is seeking a candidate with 4 to 8 years of experience, preferably in the design and construction of tunnels and underground structures. Experience in trenchless crossings, support of excavation and foundations would also be complementary. The ideal candidate would have construction experience on a project with TBM tunnelling. This position offers a great opportunity for a motivated, detail-oriented, team-centric engineer to work on high-profile tunnelling projects in BC and AB. The successful candidate will work primarily at a project site in the Lower Mainland.

Responsibilities

• Professionally communicate with clients and sub-consultants and other stakeholders as required.
• Effectively manage multiple tasks in a timeline manner is critical
• Analyze tunnel data and evaluate performance. Identify and analyze risks.
• Support the Construction Manager and Assistant Construction Manager in preparing deliverables related to contract administration/construction management.
• Accountability for quality of product including analysis, reporting, and construction reviews
• Attend and participate in project meetings with CM team, contractor and client.
• Perform construction field reviews, as required, and prepare field reports
• Review construction submittals, QA data relative to construction specifications.
• Prepare weekly and monthly construction reports
• Prepare proposals, budgets, and scheduling of Delve staff
• Provide field engineering services for the Construction Management (CM) team for a major tunnel project in the Lower Mainland
• Willing to travel in the Lower Mainland to project sites and to work on a combination of construction site and office work
• Willing to work extended and irregular hours, when necessary

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in geological or civil engineering, specializing in geotechnical or structural
• Ideally is a registered P.Eng. or an EIT close to meeting P.Eng requirements
• Strong communication, organization, and time-management skills
• 4-8 years experience, heavy civil and tunnelling experience preferred
• Local experience in major infrastructure project design is an asset
• Understanding of the fundamentals of TBM tunnelling
• Class 5 (or equivalent) driver's license
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills and strong leadership qualities

Benefits: Dental, Extended Health Care Benefit, Critical Illness Insurance, Health Spending Account, Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Employee Assistance Program, Education Reimbursement Program, Stock program, 10 Paid Holidays, Paid Time Off, Wellness Reimbursement.

ARE YOU READY TO JOIN OUR TEAM?

If you feel that you would be right for this position, please fill out our initial 3-minute, mobile-friendly application so that we can review your information. We look forward to meeting you!

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