Power Generation Senior EIT 2

Company: GAI Consultants Inc.
Location: Glen Allen
Posted on: May 24, 2025

Job Description:

Description
GAI Consultants, Inc. (GAI) is seeking a Senior EIT 2 to work out of our Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, Cranberry, or Canonsburg/Southpointe), West Virginia (Bridgeport or Charleston), or Virginia (Richmond or Warrenton) offices, with an option to work remotely while based out of one of those office locations. Under the direction of a Geotechnical Engineering Manager, this individual will provide geotechnical engineering and project site support for projects in the Energy, Transportation and Community Development business units. The position will require travel and fieldwork generally located in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia. This position is eligible for a sign-on bonus.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

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• Perform geotechnical engineering assignments involving investigations for a variety of facilities including, but notlimited to: foundations for transmission lines, buildings, roadways, bridges, retaining walls, dams, and otherstructures; designs for embankments and cut slopes for roadways and other developments; designs for natural gaspipelines and compressor stations; design of waste landfills and impoundments; and development of geotechnicalmonitoring and laboratory testing programs.
  
• Prepare geotechnical engineering designs involving: rock/soil slope stability; cut slope and fill embankment design;landslide stabilization and remediation (reinforcement with rock anchors/soil nails, GRS slopes); geotechnical fieldinstrumentation; soil reinforcement and ground improvement techniques (CMCs, compaction grouting, stonecolumns); sheet pile/retaining walls (gravity walls, soldier pile, and lagging walls, MSE walls, T-walls); shallow anddeep foundations (spread footings, driven piles, micropiles, drilled shafts).
  
• Geotechnical Investigation and Construction Support Services including, but not limited to: test boring monitoringand logging; site reconnaissance; foundation and retaining structure construction monitoring and inspection.The successful candidate will be responsible for interpreting specifications and construction drawings, evaluating site conditions based on construction excavations, monitoring and reporting on construction activities, and performing field testing of soils.
  
• Prepare proposals, budgets, schedules, calculations, specifications, and reports.
  
• Travel can be expected in the form of fieldwork, which can be daily local travel or weekly out-of-town travel, generally located in the Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia areas (up to 50%).
  
  Physical Requirements:
  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully performthe essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to performthe essential functions.
  
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  • The candidate can be expected to traverse steep terrain and carry up to 50 lbs.
    
    General Characteristics
    
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    • Develops broad knowledge and skills in a specific practice area.
      
    • Evaluates, selects, and applies standard techniques, procedures, and criteria to perform a task or sequence of tasks for conventional projects with few complex features.
      
    • Collaboratively uses judgment to determine adaptations in methods for nonroutine aspects of assignments.
      
    • Applies principles of probability and statistics to determine risk relevant to engineering.
      
      Minimum Years of Experience
      
      
      6+
      
      Education
      

      
      B.S. or M.S. Engineering
      
      Certification/Licensure
      

      
      Passed Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam and obtained engineer-in-training (EIT) or engineering-intern (EI) certification
      
      Technical Responsibilities
      

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      • Performs moderate design tasks.
        
      • Prepares portions of plans, specifications, and other project documents.
        
      • Performs research and field investigation.
        
        Project and Task Management
        
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        • Works as a part of a team and coordinates work with others.
          
        • Assists in determining schedule and budget requirements.
          
          Management Responsibility
          
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          • Receives instruction on specific objectives.
            
          • Receives direction on unconventional and/or complex problems and possible solutions.
            
          • Receives a thorough review of completed work for the application of sound professional judgment.
            
          • Receives mentorship from a licensed engineer typically in their specialty.
            
            Communication Skills
            
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            • Possess effective oral and written communication skills.
              
            • Interacts with other staff.
              
            • Interacts with clients with close oversight.
              
            • Interacts closely with Project Managers & various Department Managerial Staff, especially with client communications.
              
            • Interacts with clients at regular project meetings.
              Qualifications
              EducationBachelors of Engineering (required)
              Experience6 years: Related experience working in an engineering role. (required)
              Licenses & CertificationsDriver's License (preferred)EI (required)
              
              Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
              
              This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.
              For further information, please review the notice from the Department of Labor.

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