# Principal Offshore Geotechnical Engineer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Perth, Western Australia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As a Principal Offshore Geotechnical Engineer at WSP, you will provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise across offshore geotechnical engineering projects within the Oil & Gas sector.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Leading the planning, specification, management and execution of offshore geotechnical site investigations

- Directing the processing, interpretation and integration of geotechnical, geological and geophysical datasets

- Leading geotechnical design and assessment of offshore foundations

- Providing specialist geotechnical input for subsea pipelines, flowlines, umbilicals and cable developments

- Acting as Project Manager and/or Technical Lead for major offshore projects

- Preparing and reviewing high-quality technical reports, proposals, presentations and client deliverables

- Building and maintaining strong client relationships

- Mentoring and developing junior engineers

- Promoting a strong culture of safety, quality and collaboration

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- A Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering or a related discipline

- Extensive experience in offshore geotechnical engineering

- Demonstrated experience leading offshore geotechnical investigations and site characterisation programmes

- Strong technical expertise in offshore foundation design, soil-structure interaction and subsea infrastructure assessments

- Knowledge of relevant offshore industry standards and recommended practices

- A proven track record delivering complex multidisciplinary projects on time and within budget

- Excellent client engagement, stakeholder management and business development skills

- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills

- Experience mentoring engineers and leading high-performing project teams

WSP offers a range of benefits, including:

- Opportunities to work on significant offshore Oil & Gas and energy projects

- Collaboration with globally recognised technical experts

- Innovative solutions that shape the future of offshore infrastructure development

- A culture built on collaboration, inclusion, technical excellence and continuous learning

- Career development opportunities, global mobility, health and wellbeing programs, and flexible working arrangements

## Skills

### Required
- offshore geotechnical engineering
- soil-structure interaction
- subsea infrastructure assessments
- geotechnical design
- project management

### Nice to have
- API
- ISO
- DNV frameworks
- multidisciplinary projects
- client engagement

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