Delmas Nigeria Limited, is recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Geotechnical Engineer
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- The process of understanding and working with soil and rock, underground water, site and structural conditions, in relation to a construction project, is known as geotechnical engineering.
- In their professional capacity, geotechnical engineers plan and design the structures for buildings, roads, embankments, canals and hundreds of other construction projects. Beyond their construction role, the geotechnical engineer will also deal with geological hazards like landslides, soil erosion and, in some extreme conditions, earthquakes.
- Multi-discipline - Geotechnical engineering is multi-disciplinary.
- You'll be expected to have a working knowledge of a number of engineering fields - including ocean engineering, structural engineering, petroleum engineering and material science.
- The information and research data which you'll be expected to deal with can be varied, complex and demanding - in addition to their engineering duties, geotechnical engineers are mathematicians, technicians and scientists.
- As a career, geotechnical engineering is exciting and diverse - but also very demanding. If you are thinking about a career in geotechnical engineering, what are the roles and responsibilities you can expect to encounter in the job?
- Subsurface investigation: the job of the geotechnical engineer essentially starts with a collection of soil samples from the project's intended site, using bores and test pits.
- Amongst other factors, the analysis will determine the ground's stress bearing capability and stability.
- Field test: after research into soil quality and stress-bearing factors, geotechnical engineers must determine whether issues like erosion, settlement and slope will pose a safety risk to the proposed project.
- Computer analysis: as a geotechnical engineer, you will be required to analyse the results of subsurface investigations and field tests with dedicated software.
- Your ability to understand data and model future conditions will be crucial to the development of the construction project.
- After analysis, geotechnical engineers may be required to assist in the development of earthworks and foundations suitable to the conditions of the site.
- Client meetings: a regular duty of the geotechnical engineer is to meet with clients for evaluations of project progress.
- Budget and time constraints will be important factors in any discussion and geotechnical engineers will be expected to know and provide a variety of important information.
Application Closing Date
26th June, 2015.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications and CV's to:
[email protected]