Geoscience / Geotechnical Lead

Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts. We partner with customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their assets. We're bridging two worlds, moving towards more sustainable energy sources, while helping to provide the energy, chemicals and resources needed now.

Geoscience / Geotechnical Lead

Location: North America-based (United States or Canada)
Preferred locations: Alaska; Houston, TX; Calgary, AB; Vancouver, BC

Purpose of the Role

As a Senior Associate Technical Consultant - Geoscience / Geotechnical Lead, you will provide senior technical leadership and delivery coordination for complex geohazard and geotechnical scopes on large, schedulesensitive infrastructure projects. The role involves leading multidisciplinary delivery teams, coordinating technical inputs across disciplines, and ensuring consistent, highquality outcomes through investigation planning, interpretation, and field execution phases.

This position is suited to a senior practitioner with deep geoscience and geotechnical expertise who can balance handson technical leadership with delivery oversight, mentoring, and integration across projects.

This position will be based in a Worley office in Houston, TX; Calgary, AB; Vancouver, BC; or Alaska, with a hybrid work schedule. The role is not intended for offshore or remoteonly delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the delivery lead for geoscience and geotechnical scopes on major infrastructure projects
• Lead and manage multidisciplinary teams of geoscience and geotechnical professionals
• Coordinate technical inputs across engineering, project management, and construction teams
• Define investigation strategies, interpretation workflows, and technical execution plans
• Oversee field investigation programs, including coordination with subcontractors and laboratories
• Review and approve technical deliverables for quality, consistency, and defensibility
• Identify and manage technical, schedule, and delivery risks
• Mentor senior and intermediate staff and support capability development
• Support proposals, planning studies, and earlyphase technical development as required

Required Qualifications

• Degree in Geoscience, Geological Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or related discipline
• Typically 15+ years of relevant experience delivering geoscience and/or geotechnical scopes for infrastructure or resource projects
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams
• Strong grounding in geohazards and geotechnical investigation and interpretation
• Proven ability to deliver and review customerready technical deliverables
• Eligibility for professional registration in a North American jurisdiction (or ability to obtain)
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Equivalent combinations of experience and demonstrated capability will be considered.

Travel / Field Expectations

Moderate travel is expected, including periodic site visits and shortterm field assignments during critical phases.

For applicants based in the province of British Columbia, the salary range is $183,221 to $269,443. Application of the pay band: Variation in salary is determined by factors such as the candidate's qualifications, relevant years of experience, geographic location, internal pay equity, and prevailing market conditions for the specific role.

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