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As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, that believes diversity is what gives us strength, seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other, our clients and the communities we are part of and serve. To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience, while staying connected to a global network of professionals, who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.\nAre you ready to design your future?\nBe our next Senior Geotechnical Engineer!\nYour work environment at EXP\nEXP is currently seeking a Senior Geotechnical Engineer with experience in highway, bridge, tunnel, and transit projects to join our growing transportation engineering team in Fairfax, Virginia. This role will support a diverse portfolio of transportation infrastructure projects throughout Virginia, the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, and the Mid-Atlantic region, working closely with public agency and private sector clients.\nWhat a day at EXP has in store for you\nDeveloping and maintaining business relationships with clients.\n\nPreparing proposals for projects for geotechnical services for transportation engineering projects that include cost estimates and timelines.\n\nPlanning and carrying out assignments requiring familiarity with a broad range of geotechnical engineering with reciprocal knowledge of the work of other disciplines of technical work.\n\nUtilizing combinations of standard procedures, modifications of standard procedures and methods developed in other assignments when analyzing each unique project.\n\nCo-ordinating with clients, suppliers and third parties to accomplish the required project objectives.\n\nManaging projects to achieve the objectives, which are required by the client, including briefing and control of staff and sub-contractors allocated to the project, scheduling work, cost control (expenses and budget control as well as utilization) management.\n\nDirecting field activities, including site investigations, drilling and data collection, design, construction phase monitoring and testing services on construction projects.\n\nAttending project meetings and carrying out site inspections when senior technical guidance and support is required.\n\nReviewing and interpreting monitoring information from geotechnical instrumentation programs.\n\nCarrying out analysis of data, including computer analyses.\n\nWriting and reviewing technical reports.\n\nWorking with senior staff when dealing with difficult, complex and unusual matters and decisions.\n\nPerforming independent studies, analyses, interpretations and conclusions.\n\nWorking independently with little supervision, depending on the complexity of the assignment.\n\nLiaising with clients, contractors, consultants, municipal staff, and other stakeholders.\n\nContinuing own technical skills development and propagation of those skills to others.\n\nCoaching, mentoring and developing junior and intermediate Geotechnical employees.\n\nWhat your experience looks like\nProfessional Engineer (PE) license required.\n\nBachelor's Degree in Geotechnical, Civil, or Geological Engineering required; Master's degree or PhD preferred.\n\nMinimum 10 years of progressive geotechnical engineering experience supporting transportation infrastructure projects, including highways, bridges, tunnels, retaining structures, and transit facilities.\n\nExperience managing multidisciplinary engineering teams consisting of junior and intermediate engineers, technicians, and field staff.\n\nDemonstrated ability to develop comprehensive scopes of work, technical proposals, and fee estimates for geotechnical investigations and design services.\n\nStrong understanding and application of advanced geotechnical engineering principles, analysis methods, and design practices.\n\nExperience ensuring compliance with applicable industry standards, agency requirements, and quality management procedures.\n\nProven ability to manage project budgets, schedules, scope changes, and client expectations.\n\nAbility to manage multiple concurrent projects while delivering high-quality work products on schedule.\n\nStrong business development and client relationship management skills with a demonstrated ability to win and grow geotechnical services.\n\nExperience leading complex subsurface investigations, geotechnical analyses, and foundation design projects.\n\nProven success mentoring and developing junior engineering staff.\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills.\n\nAbility to collaborate effectively with clients, contractors, consultants, public agencies, and internal project teams.\n\nStrong organizational, problem-solving, and time-management skills.\n\nFamiliarity and working knowledge of Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) manuals, specifications, standards, and geotechnical engineering practices.\n\nFamiliarity with AASHTO, FHWA, and VDOT design requirements applicable to transportation infrastructure projects.\n\nExperience with geotechnical engineering software such as gINT/OpenGround, LPILE, GROUP, Settle3, Slide2, SLOPE/W, or equivalent analysis tools.\n\nKnowledge of construction procedures and methodologies commonly utilized on transportation and infrastructure projects throughout Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic region.\n\nAbility to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.\n\nPreferred: Existing relationships with VDOT, WMATA, Virginia Railway Express (VRE), Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT), local municipalities, and transportation contractors throughout Northern Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic region.\n\nThe salary range for this role is $125,000 to $175,000. 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