Geotechnical Engineer

About Beca

Beca is one of Asia Pacific’s largest independent advisory, design and engineering consultancies. After a century of operation, we have grown from a family-owned business to one of the most progressive, client-centric professional services consultancies in our region. We have more than 4,000 employees in 25 offices around the world and have delivered projects in more than 70 countries.

Our employee-ownership model remains key to our future. It underpins our commitment to building and sustaining long-term relationships with our clients, it helps drive our positive, purpose-driven and growth-oriented culture, it sets us apart from our competitors, and it gives meaning to our social contract.

While our experience has been 100 years in the making, it is the fresh talent we're nurturing, the innovative thinking we're developing and the connections that we're forging that get us most excited for the future. We are currently recruiting for Geotechnical Engineer to join our geotechnical Team and be located in our Bangkok, Thailand office. In this role you will be working alongside approximately 120 staff working across a range of professional services.

The Opportunity

As our backlog of work increases, we are seeking a Junior Geotechnical Engineer to join our growing Geotechnical team in Thailand. Based in Bangkok, our team work on projects locally and internationally across multiple markets including Buildings, Transport and Infrastructure. Step into a supportive and inclusive work environment that values diversity and continuous improvement. You will be given opportunities for professional growth and development as well as mentorship from experienced engineers. In this role you will:

• Work with clients to understand their project’s brief and technical requirements.

• Develop ground models and undertake geotechnical analysis and assessment of key aspects such as settlement and soil-structure interaction.

• Undertake geotechnical design for foundations, retaining walls, slope stability, etc.

• Provide quality design packages of an appropriate technical standard for review.

• Work under the supervision of Senior Engineers (locally and internationally).

What We’ll Like About You

• Master’s Degree in Civil/Geotechnical Engineering.

• 0-3 years of experience in Geotechnical Engineering design.

• Knowledge of geotechnical design software (such as SlopeW, RSpile, Settle3, Plaxis 2D/3D or similar software). Experience with other software such as Leapfrog, SeepW or coding languages such as Python would be advantageous.

• Have an appreciation of geotechnical engineering risk and uncertainty

• Good English communication skills and computer literate.

• Enthusiastic and motivated to continue to learn from your peers and senior members of the team.

• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work collaboratively with a team of engineers and designers (locally and internationally) to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.

• Experience working in a consulting environment delivering projects as part of a multi-disciplinary team is a benefit.

We offer the following to qualified candidates:

• Friendly international working environment with a wide variety of interesting and challenging tasks

• Possibility to grow professionally and advance your career

• Provident fund

• Working hours from 09.00-18.00 hrs

• 5-day work week (Mon.-Fri)

• Group Life and Health insurance

• OPD (Out-Patient Department)

• Health checks up

• Social clubs

• Annual trip or party

• Staff training and development

• Opportunity to join our Exchange Program to international branches such as New Zealand, Australia etc.

• Performance/results-based bonus etc.