SOCOTEC
Direct SmartRecruiters career site

Project Geotechnical Engineer

Location
Houston, TX
Listed
3 days ago

About the role

Ninyo & Moore, a SOCOTEC Company has an immediate opening for a Project Geotechnical Engineer in Houston, Texas. The successful candidate will manage geotechnical, forensic, and construction projects, including meeting and interacting with the clients, and managing budgets.

The Project Engineer will coordinate and participate in field activities, including logging of borings, test pits, trenches and cores; evaluation of geologic and seismic hazards; forensic evaluation of distressed structures and failed slopes; perform foundation, slope stability, and settlement analyses; and prepare geotechnical engineering proposals and reports.

Duties will also include providing technical support to staff-level engineers, geologists and field technicians.

Qualifications & Requirements

  • The successful candidate should be a licensed professional engineer (PE) with 4+ years' of experience in geotechnical consulting.
  • The ideal candidate will bring local experience and familiarity with the local engineering practice.
  • Candidate should be a team player, be detail oriented and have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • B.S. required (Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering), M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering preferred.

Benefits

Competitive benefits package including health, dental, vision, and 401:

  • Job Type: Full-Time, in office
  • All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
  • SOCOTEC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

About the Company

SOCOTEC is a provider of niche consulting services within the architecture, engineering and construction industries focusing on high-performance buildings and specialty structures. Through an integrated, holistic approach, our professionals provide solutions for building envelope, energy efficiency, sustainability, code advisory and construction advisory projects.

SOCOTEC's combination of expertise, experience and methods are increasingly recognized as best-in-class fueling significant growth.

SOCOTEC's Specialty Engineering Team offers highly technical services in evaluating an asset's integrity, reliability, and operational capabilities. Our professionals evaluate projects, materials, engineering systems, and their components to determine its performance, mitigate risk, enhance quality, and provide advice on its impacts.

Our engineering professionals specialize in failure analysis, non-destructive engineering, fitness for service, probabilistic analysis, technical modeling, materials testing, and other niche engineering projects. Our engineering team tackles technical challenges, disputes, investigations, testing and more with the ability to drive projects to safe and successful completion.

SOCOTEC is proud to announce that it has been officially certified as a Great Place to Work by the renowned global authority on workplace culture, Great Place to Work®.

Read the original posting

From SOCOTEC's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 6, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

How Rolev.ai helps with this application

Rolev.ai is a job search and application tool for US job seekers. For this Project Geotechnical Engineer role at SOCOTEC, it shows how your resume fits, tailors your resume to the posting, and prepares the application for you to review.

  • See how you fit

    Openings from employer career sites are ranked against your whole resume—and searchable inside Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor via Rolev.ai MCP.

  • Tailor without inventing

    Every change to your resume is checked against your original. New experience goes in only with your yes—zero fabricated claims.

  • Draft the full kit

    Tailored and Full Match resumes, role-specific cover letters, and answers to employer screening questions are prepared in seconds.

  • 1-Click Extension Autofill

    The Chrome extension fills the employer's Greenhouse, Workday, Lever, or Ashby form in 1 click. You review it and press Submit.

Common questions

Where is the Project Geotechnical Engineer job at SOCOTEC located?

This Project Geotechnical Engineer position at SOCOTEC is located in Houston, TX. Always check SOCOTEC's application page for specific state eligibility or relocation policies.

How do I apply for the Project Geotechnical Engineer position at SOCOTEC?

This listing links directly to SOCOTEC's SmartRecruiters application page. You can apply directly on SOCOTEC's site, or use Rolev.ai to check your resume fit, generate a zero-hallucination tailored resume and cover letter for this posting, and autofill the SmartRecruiters application form in 1 click with the Rolev.ai Chrome extension. You always review the form and press Submit yourself.