Dam Safety Specialist

About the role

AECOM is looking for a Dam Safety Specialist to join its Burnaby, BC office. This newly created role supports dam safety reviews mainly for municipal, provincial and mining clients, and requires teamwork, clear communication with project members and clients, and initiative. Relocation is not available.

Key responsibilities

• Assist with dam safety inspections, dam safety reviews and condition assessments for embankment and concrete dams, tailings-retaining structures, water resource dams and hydraulic structures.
• Support geotechnical investigations such as drilling programs, borehole logging, instrumentation installation, soils/rock sampling and field testing.
• Take part in field reviews, construction QA/QC, site monitoring and dam surveillance.
• Carry out engineering analyses under supervision, including seepage and slope stability, settlement and deformation, and earthworks and foundation evaluations.
• Help prepare technical reports, proposals, drawings, specifications, design memoranda and risk assessment documentation.
• Support instrumentation and monitoring programs and interpret piezometer, inclinometer and survey data.
• Coordinate with civil, hydrotechnical, geological, mining and environmental engineers.
• Help develop dam safety management plans, OMS manuals, emergency plans and risk registers.
• Support project management tasks such as scheduling, budgeting, tracking and client coordination.
• Travel to remote sites across BC and Canada, often in mining locations.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Geotechnical, Geological, Civil or Mining Engineering (geotechnical specialization), or equivalent experience and education.
• At least two years of relevant experience in civil, geotechnical, hydrotechnical, mining, tailings or dam projects.
• Valid Class 5 BC driver's licence and ability to travel to remote sites and work in field conditions.
• Preferred: EIT registration or eligibility with Engineers and Geoscientists BC, progression toward P.Eng., a Master's degree, and one year of dam safety project experience.

Required skills

• Geotechnical software such as GeoStudio SLOPE/W and SEEP/W, PLAXIS, Rocscience Slide2/RS2, FLAC, gINT/OpenGround, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, GIS and Microsoft Office.
• Interpretation of field and laboratory data, instrumentation readings and inspection observations.
• Technical writing, communication and coordination with senior engineers, subcontractors and multidisciplinary teams.
• Understanding of dam safety practices, risk-informed engineering and field safety requirements.