Engineering Geologist

Salary Code
T4

Department/Section
Geotechnical Department

Job Title
Engineering Geologist
Promotion Prospects
Senior Engineering Geologist

Regular Hours worked : 48 / wk.
Reports To
Head of Technical Section/ Department Manager

General SummaryPlan, direct and conduct work survey to analyze the likely behavior of soil and rock, direct supervision of ongoing project, reporting, preparation and writing technical and financial offers.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Managerial Duties
1. Implement section's policies, goals, objectives, and procedures and support in their development as needed.
2. Oversee the implementation of operations plans, policies, procedures and transition/migration plans.
3. Marketing the department in coordination with the Marketing Officer and the Department Manager.
4. Following up the department invoices and help in the collection.

Technical Duties 5. Prepare daily drilling work program, and issue work orders to drillers in accordance with project specifications and contractual agreements.
6. Ensure all customers' requirements are carried out in accordance with contract specification, international and approved in house polices and procedures.
7. Conduct off site inspection visits and prepare site inspection reports.
8. Collect data by utilizing various types of field instrumentation such as inclinometers, piezometers and settlement monitoring devices.
9. Conduct visual description of obtained soil and rock samples.
10. Prepare laboratory testing program for geotechnical investigation.
11. Prepare geotechnical reports in conformance with related standard test methods and customer requirements.
12. Organize records and files for plans and ongoing projects, including incoming & out going correspondences, project specifications and drawings, lab tests forms and all related ISO forms.
13. Prepare and write both technical and financial proposals.
14. Perform laboratory analysis and field testing results and finding using computer programs.
15. Follow-up the implementation of safety regulations and protection measures in the field.
16. Follow-up the implementation of field and laboratory plans and programs.
17. Produce maps (subsurface profiles) of soil types and their distribution.
18. Design and analyze various shallow and deep foundation systems for structures, including conducting calculations.
19. Design and analyze various permanent and temporary earth retaining systems such as concrete gravity, soldier beam and lagging and sheet pile walls, along with associated slope stability analysis utilizing several computerized solution techniques.
20. Instruct the drillers on the drilling methodology and tools.
21. Plan and program site investigation work taking into consideration any related obstacles such as accessibility and existing structure.
22. Prepare project quality plan (PQP) for large scale projects, and follow up on project expenses.
23. Any duties or responsibilities assigned by the management.

Education and Related Work Experience

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering Geology.
• 0-2 year in the field of Engineering Geology

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities (Competencies) Required

Organization Core Capabilities Individual Contributor

Job Grades 1-5
Bands: G, T, P 
Accountability
'Maintaining standards that lead to high performance and execution' Deliver Based on Guidelines

Drive for Results (53)
Action Oriented (1)
Perseverance (43)
Organizing (39)
Time Management (62)
Planning (47)

AGILITY
'Making important changes rapidly' Follow/Check
Intellectual Horsepower (30)
Decision Quality (17)
Problem Solving (51) 
COLLABORATION
'Working together across boundaries'
Convey (Relating Skills)
Customer Focus (15)
Peer Relationships (42)
Approachability (3) Written Communications (67)
Listening (33)
Patience (41)
Informing (27)

FUNCTIONAL EXCELLENCE
'Building expertise in our respective business areas' Basic Knowledge of Position
Functional/Technical Skills (24)

LEADERSHIP
'Building talented people who strive to win in our markets'
Leading Self
1.Character
Integrity and Trust (29)
Ethics and Values (22)
2.Learning Skills
Technical Learning (61)
Personal Learning (45)
Self-Knowledge (55)
Self-Development (54)
Learning on the Fly (32)
3.Balancing Work/Life
Work / Life Balance (66)
Career Ambition (6)

Technical:
1. Soil Analysis Techniques.
2. Rock Analysis & Ground Investigations.
3. Simple Engineering Geological Models in Plan & Cross Section.
4. Stress States in Natural & Man Made Situations.
5. Foundations & Earth Retaining Structures.
6. Geotechnical Investigation & Testing.
7. Environmental Site Assessment & Remediation.
8. Project Management.
9. Fundamentals Mathematics, calculations, Statistics and Data Analysis.
10. Occupational Safety.
11. Ms. Word.
12. Ms. Outlook.

Conditions

• This Job Description and Qualifications are Subject to periodic review and may be changed by the appropriate authorized person at any time.
• The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job.

Acknowledgement
I have read, understand and agree on the above requirements in this job description.

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