GAI Consultants, Inc. · 1 month ago
Power Generation Project Technical Specialist 1
Louisville, KY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expGAI Consultants, Inc. is seeking a Project Technical Specialist 1 in Power Generation to work out of their Louisville, KY office. This role involves providing geotechnical engineering and project site support for various projects in the Energy, Transportation, and Community Development sectors.
Consulting
Responsibilities
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; and 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. The successful candidate will be 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
Serves as the technical advisor for the organization in the application of advanced concepts and methods in an assigned area
Keeps informed of new developments and requirements affecting the organization for the purpose of recommending changes in programs or applications
Develops new techniques and/or improved processes, materials, or products
Values and analyzes sustainable performance of complex engineering projects from a systems perspective
Oversees a project team of engineers and technicians
Plans, schedules, and coordinates the preparation of documents or activities for multiple major projects or is responsible for an entire program of an organization
Analyzes project management plans for complex engineering projects
Understands project delivery uncertainties and uses risk management principles to address them
Reviews operational procedures to ensure compliance with applicable policies and performance measures
Applies thorough knowledge of current principles and practices of engineering related to the variety of aspects affecting their organization
Applies progressively acquired expertise to resolve crucial issues and/or unique conditions
Keeps informed of new methods and developments affecting their organization and recommends new practices or changes in emphasis of programs
Leads programs of moderate complexity and scope or leads a major project
Analyzes complex problems across specialty areas appropriate to the practice of engineering
Analyzes ethical dilemmas to determine appropriate courses of action
Applies principles of formal strategic and persuasive communications
Represents their area of specialty within the organization and liaises with related individuals and organizations
Routinely interacts with organizational leaders, clients, officials, contractors, and others
Integrates concepts of effective teamwork and leadership, including justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and advocates for application of these concepts
Considers social equity and environmental impact of engineering decisions
Receives administrative supervision with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits
Provides continued mentored experience to senior staff
Integrates professional attitudes relevant to the practice of engineering and fosters creativity, curiosity, flexibility, and dependability in staff
Qualification
Required
B.S. Engineering or other technical degree
10+ years of experience
Driver's License
Benefits
Competitive salary - GAI is committed to paying market-based salaries
Comprehensive benefits package including medical, vision, dental, company paid Long Term Disability, and Short-Term Disability (benefits start within 30 days of hire)
New paid Maternity/Paternity/Adoption program
Generous Paid Time Off and 7 paid holidays
401k company match
Tuition Reimbursement
Company
GAI Consultants, Inc.
Transforming ideas into reality® since 1958, GAI Consultants is an engineering, planning, and environmental consulting firm that provides customized solutions and local expertise to clients in the power, transportation, development, government, and industrial markets.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
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Comvest Partners
2022-10-13Private Equity
Leadership Team
Gary DeJidas
President / CEO
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