Construction Phase Services

**Delve Underground** is a leader in heavy civil engineering, serving the transportation, water, wastewater, and energy industries. Specialising in **tunnel design**, we provide innovative solutions to the most challenging underground problems. Offering comprehensive design, construction management, and dispute-resolution capabilities, our expertise includes civil, structural, geotechnical, mechanical, and electrical engineering. Founded in 1954, Delve Underground is a mid-size employee-owned growing consulting firm with 21 offices located across Australia, New Zealand and North America.

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**.**

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide overall geotechnical expertise to interpret geotechnical conditions against the design selection criteria
- Assign support types and develop other design solutions, including additional support as required by conditions or design documentation
- Review geological mapping records, endoscope hole inspection records and probe hole inspection records (vertical and horizontal)
- Review monitoring records and direct additional monitoring locations at the PTT; increase monitoring frequency as required by the design documentation
- Prepare geotechnical record reports for issue by Document control
- Attend Permit to Excavate (PTE) and Permit to Tunnel (PTT) meetings
- Liaise with CJV Construction and Designer
- Strategically plan CPS services against construction requirements including allocating personnel resources
- Mentor geologists and instruct in proper tunnel mapping procedures
- Regularly assess and audit CPS personnel performances and competency
- Attend Monitoring Action Team (MAT) meetings
- Liase with the relevant CJV Department Construction Manager
- Facilitate hold and witness points release as outlined in Design Drawings
- Use their geotechnical expertise to prepare RFI's for submission by CJV to the Designer when conditions differ from design drawings or criteria.
- Raise CPS hold points for ground conditions encountered outside of design selection criteria

**Qualifications**:

- Minimum **10 years of experience** in design and construction of major civil engineering projects, including tunnelling projects. Some site-based experience is required.
- Experienced with field mapping, rock mass classification systems & observational method
- Tertiary qualification in geotechnical engineering or engineering geology
- Excellent verbal communication skills, liaise with Contractor onsite daily
- Good writing skills
- Undertake daily tunnel inspections to observe ground conditions and identify geotechnical related safety risks
- On-call support for geologists and Site team outside of business hours (telephone allowance provided)
- Understanding of Project design documents
- Understanding of the PTE, PTT, and MAT processes
- Understanding of geotechnical record reporting requirements
- Current drivers licence

**Culture**:
Delve Underground focus on providing innovative, quality solutions to our clients that consistently meet or exceed time and budget parameters.

Delve Underground is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity. We offer a supportive work environment and a positive employee experience. **Benefits **can include **flexible work arrangements**, **health and wellness reimbursement**, **salary continuance program**, **employee assistance program** and **stock ownership**.

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