Geotechnical Engineer (Tailings)

Geosyntec is an internationally recognised company for its technical leadership, extensive experience, and exceptional level of customer service. Our ambition is to help our customers succeed by providing solutions that add value to their environmental, natural resource and infrastructure businesses. Geosyntec was founded in 1983 and is owned by its employees. We have more than 2,400 highly qualified consultants in our more than 90 offices around the world.

At Geosyntec, we highly value hiring people recognised as experts in their fields, who are innovative and eager to grow. We continue to grow in Europe with numerous new hires, and are now looking for Geotechnical Engineers with experience in any of the life cycles of a mining waste facility (TMF) to join our growing team in Madrid. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary network of experts in our offices in Europe, North America and Australia.

If you want more information about the company and the rest of the job offers we advertise, visit our website: www.geosyntec.com.

Your success is our success. We encourage our professionals to continually develop their interests and skills. Advancement is based on an individual’s own performance and initiative.

Together with your colleagues, you will contribute to the building of our mining business across Europe. Your role will focus on the development and review of TMF projects and related tasks, mainly for clients in the mining and industrial sectors, drafting tenders, managing applications from the beginning to the end of any work or project and ensuring that the client is always delivered adequate quality. You will work with different specialists, such as geotechnical engineers, mining engineers, environmental scientists, engineers and geologists. Experience handling commonly used design software, such as Civil 3D, CAD, Leapfrog, and Muck 3D, will be considered an advantage.

Depending on your experience, training and ambition, you will naturally have great opportunities to shape the role that best suits you and challenges you as an individual, but also develops us as a team and as a company. You will work on a wide variety of projects for our clients together with a group of colleagues with 10 to 30 years of experience in the mining sector, both nationally and internationally.

Collaboration and mentoring at national and international levels are the foundations of our business culture; you will be able to work closely with experienced consultants in our field at an international level who will support you in the development of your career and in the construction of your professional networks within the Geosyntec Group.

We would like you to have the following training, knowledge and experience:

• We are looking for candidates with a master's degree in engineering ideally with experience working as a tailings or mining waste engineer. You likely have a master's degree in civil, mining, or geotechnical engineering from a technical university, or equivalent qualifications. Your experience will have provided you with a good knowledge of mining infrastructures and the construction process, from feasibility studies and research to the preparation of working documents associated with a mining operation.
• Experience in soil mechanics, slope stability analysis, numerical modeling and/or hydrogeology, and water balances will be considered additional merit for this position. We would also like you to be interested in the sustainable development challenges facing the mining industry.
• The position requires the ability to collaborate and communicate both internally and externally so bilingual proficiency in Spanish and English will be valued.

WHO WE ARE

• At Geosyntec, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse environment for all our employees, clients, partners, and the communities that we serve.
• We strive to promote a culture where every employee can bring their whole self to work, where mutual respect and understanding is the cornerstone of our values. We believe that an inclusive workplace enhances our performance and leads to positive outcomes.
• Geosyntec strives to hire and retain the best and brightest people in their fields. We look for exceptional interpersonal skills, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities, plus the passion for technical excellence and quality. We seek individuals with leadership potential, a commitment to lifelong learning and growth, and the desire to build a long and rewarding career with a growing firm.
• Geosyntec is a great place to build a career. If you're looking for an exciting place to work, a place with challenging and rewarding projects, and a place that has been nationally recognized for its employees' quality of life, technical expertise, and business success, then Geosyntec may be the place for you. You can learn more about careers and employment at Geosyntec by visiting geosyntec.com/careers.
• Geosyntec offers excellent compensation packages commensurate with experience, along with a comprehensive employee benefits package.