Terracon

Geotechnical Senior Engineer

Terracon$90K — $120K *
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering
  • Minimum 8-11 years' experience
  • Master's degree in Engineering preferred
  • Valid driver's license with acceptable violation history
  • Professional Engineer (PE) registration
  • Terracon Authorized Project Reviewer status required
  • Authorized Project Reviewer status preferred

Responsibilities

  • Lead safety efforts and ensure compliance with safety regulations
  • Monitor and promote continuous quality improvements on projects
  • Deliver consistent quality standards in project proposals and reports
  • Identify and manage project-related risks following company policies
  • Provide technical direction for complex engineering projects
  • Plan and coordinate engineering work with challenging design requirements
  • Review projects using innovative investigative techniques and supervise report formulation
  • Lead technical training and make informed decisions on technology issues
  • Support marketing, sales, and business development initiatives
  • Supervise junior engineers and technical support personnel

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Paid time off and paid holidays
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Employee stock ownership plan
Full Job Description
Job Description

Role: Senior Engineer

Location: Cudahy, Wisconsin

Onsite

Full-Time

Deliver high-impact engineering and consulting solutions across a diverse range of projects and clients. This role offers hands-on involvement throughout the project lifecycle, including leading or performing field investigations, conducting engineering analysis and calculations, and developing practical, innovative recommendations.

You'll play a key role in the design and development of plans and specifications, conduct site observation and inspections, and contribute to the preparation, review, and delivery of professional engineering reports. You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to review drawings and construction activities, ensuring quality, accuracy, and compliance with project requirements.

In addition to technical work, you'll help shape project success by preparing proposals and cost estimates, monitoring schedules and budgets, and identifying opportunities for improvement. You'll research and solve complex design and construction challenges, evaluate laboratory and field data, and translate findings into clear, actionable conclusions.

This position is ideal for an engineer who thrives on applying sound engineering principles while clearly communicating complex ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences. Projects may span exciting sectors such as public works, transportation, commercial development, communications, energy, and industrial - offering variety, challenge, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

Responsibilities

  • Lead safety efforts for team and ensure team follows safety rules and guidelines. Responsible for creating and modeling a safe work environment; demonstrating safety practices. Promote pre-task planning for all projects.
  • Responsible for continuous quality monitoring and improvement on projects. Monitor and promote quality standards and practices.
  • Responsible for providing consistent quality standards on project and proposal delivery.
  • Develop understanding and be aware of project-related risk and how to protect the Company. Be familiar with company risk policies.
  • Senior level engineering professional providing technical direction required for production and completion of both routine and unique or complex projects.
  • Responsible for conceptualizing the initial design and/or investigative approach for a major phase of a large project or have overall responsibility for the engineering work on a project of moderate scope.
  • Plan, schedule, conduct, and/or coordinates engineering work involving conventional engineering practices but may include a variety of complex features such as conflicting design requirements.
  • Provide review of projects requiring complex and innovative investigation techniques and supervise the analysis and formulation of recommendations in written reports to clients; provides technical review of reports.
  • Lead technical training and make informed decisions based upon state of the art technology issues.
  • Provide leadership of marketing, sales and business development.
  • Supervise less experienced engineers or technical support personnel on projects.
  • Serve as a Terracon Authorized Project Reviewer.


Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
  • Minimum 8-11 years' experience.
  • Master's degree in Engineering preferred.
  • Valid driver's license with acceptable violation history.
  • Professional Engineer (PE) registration.
  • Terracon Authorized Project Reviewer status required.
  • Authorized Project Reviewer status preferred.


About the Team

Innovation and hands-on practice come together in our geotechnical consulting services. We provide geotechnical services nationwide for a wide range of projects, drawing on six decades of historical geotechnical data, a fleet of more than 200 drill rigs, 140 accredited laboratories, and thousands of employees to quickly organize or capture site data wherever projects are located. From AI-supported solutions and predictive technologies to geophysics and traditional exploration, we deliver precision, value-added subsurface information and engineering and scientific expertise to solving our clients' challenges and achieve their goals for project sustainability, quality, and efficiency.

About Terracon

Terracon is a leading provider of engineering consulting services in the United States. The company was founded in 1965 and has since grown to employ over 5,000 people in more than 150 offices across the country. Terracon offers a wide range of services, including geotechnical engineering, environmental consulting, construction materials testing, and facilities engineering. The company is committed to providing high-quality services to its clients while also promoting sustainability and environmental responsibility. Terracon is a privately held company and is headquartered in Olathe, Kansas.
Learn more about Terracon
Size
5,000 employees
Industry
Net Income
$50 million
Founded
2023
5 Year Trend
+20%
Revenue
$800 million
NASDAQ

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