Geotechnical Engineer

At the core of Team Tonkin, is our strong, people centric culture which is founded on one of our key values of care. At Tonkin, our staff are not just a number – we care about each and every employee and their family. We focus on employing exceptional people and work with them to understand what they love to do. Together we then tailor roles and career development opportunities to match.

We offer all staff truly flexible work arrangements, access to a broad range of technical and non-technical development opportunities, a wellness allowance, monthly wellness challenges aimed at promoting a healthy lifestyle, fresh fruit in our office and access to an EAP which provides an extensive range of resources including access to counselling, legal and financial advice.

The Opportunity:

Based in Adelaide, you will have the opportunity to join the Geotechnical Team and work with a variety of disciplines across the business. You will be given on the job training with the view to building autonomy in scoping and leading geotechnical field investigations, while being supported in your development of geotechnical interpretation skills and an integral part of the team.

In this role you will:

• Work in a collaborative team environment
• Scope and supervise field investigations, working with our trusted drillers to achieve the required project outcomes
• Interpret the results of insitu and laboratory testing and log soils in accordance with AS 1726 Geotechnical Site Investigations
• Prepare factual and interpretive geotechnical reports with support from senior members of the Geotechnical Team as required
• Integrate with project teams from a variety of disciplines across the business to ensure geotechnical findings are appropriately incorporated into Tonkin designs
• Provide engineering services, technical input and direction in geotechnical design

About You:

To be successful in this role, you will be a graduate or early career geotechnical engineer with 2-3 years of full or part time fieldwork supervision experience and be eager to apply/develop fieldwork supervision and geotechnical engineering skills to projects across the water, transport and local government disciplines, as well as:

• Strong organisation and report writing skills
• A team first mentality with excellent collaboration skills and a safety focus.
• A positive, flexible and versatile approach to the wide variety of tasks you will be involved with.

The Tonkin difference:

We know people perform at their best when they enjoy coming to work.

At Tonkin we offer you the opportunity to work with leading industry experts in a genuinely supportive and caring environment. We provide flexibility because we know work-life balance is key. Our dynamic teams are underpinned by trust; empowering you to build your skills, progress your career quickly and work the way that is best for you.

Good people. Challenging projects. Caring environment. That's Tonkin.

If you would like to join a versatile team who are nationally recognised for technical excellence, finding creative and progressive ways to deliver value for our clients, and putting a human touch into crafting engineering solutions, we look forward to hearing from you.

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For this role, you must have the right to live and work permanently in this location.

Tonkin will only consider applications submitted directly by candidates. We will not accept or consider any applications from recruiters or recruitment agencies for this position unless requested.