Geotechnical Engineer

Location/s: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Key responsibilities

Service Delivery:
Delivering quality professional services to internal and external clients, ensuring information and advice is accurate and relevant to client needs
Continual Improvement:
Seeking out opportunities that challenges the way we think and behave that will enable better outcomes for our internal and external clients.
Collaboration:
Using global network systems to build relationships that will enable teamwork in and across locations, and to support professional development and knowledge sharing.
Quality and risk management:
Ensuring current knowledge in professional standards and innovations. Practicing constructability and safety in project design and delivery supported by quality checking and verification activities. Undertaking work in consideration of the safety of oneself and others and through compliance with safety standards.

Knowledge, skills and attributes

Embrace our Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive and Excellence (PRIDE) values by:
Self-leadership: Taking responsibility for one's own behaviour and well-being.
Professional Excellence: Demonstrating a passion for continual learning.
Communication: Confidently communicating in a way that is understood and is receptive to the opinion and views of others.
Teamwork: Willingly work in cooperation with others.
Written skills: The ability to produce clear and logical written communication and presentations in English
Experience: Experience in area of service delivery providing quality subject matter expert (SME) advice and judgement.
Qualification: Role relevant tertiary or vocational qualifications.

Specific responsibilities:
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• Be involved in the delivery of a wide range of engineering projects including deep excavations, MRT and other projects.
• Produce documentation, including reports, engineering sketches, engineering calculations, technical specifications, and tender documentation
• Provide support to writing project proposals and business development
• Having an appreciation of the roles of fellow professionals on multidisciplinary projects and interfacing and coordinating with them appropriately
• Maintain a comprehensive knowledge and appreciation of current technical standards and practices (including Singapore Standards and Eurocodes) and taking a ‘hands on’ role in technical matters
• A role in driving to digital strategy within civil engineering

The role will be challenging, demanding, varied and offer fantastic opportunities for skill set and career development.

Additional Text for Requisition
We are currently seeking a Geotechnical Engineer for our team in KL.

In this role you will find opportunities for strong career progression by contributing to our large scale local and international projects. You will apply your working experience in providing geotechnical design and consultancy services to clients from early-stage feasibility assessments to detailed design and construction support – for major infrastructure projects in Singapore and Malaysia. Your initial focus will be to support Mott MacDonald’s Singapore team with their projects but increasingly you will be required to support projects in Malaysia, Hong Kong, and across the region, while still supporting Singapore where required. You will be working hand-in-hand across the global Mott MacDonald Group as part of a large project team to deliver on our global projects.

You will be challenged with a wide variety of innovative projects, such as MRT stations and tunnels, major building foundations and basements, highway bridge foundations, coastal developments and reclamation projects, offshore wind and hydropower projects, and many more, meaning that every day will be different and a chance to expand your skills. You will be working with civil and structural transport infrastructure engineers, as well as other disciplines of professionals across multiple sectors (including energy, water and buildings), to deliver prestigious projects. You will have the opportunity to directly contribute to a greener, cleaner future for Singapore, Malaysia and the wider East Asia region.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.