Senior Civil Engineer - Site Development and Excavation

GE Vernova is seeking a Senior Civil Engineer for Site Development and Excavation to be part of a multi-discipline Civil/Structural technical team. The role involves leading grading, excavation, and site development for new nuclear plant sites while ensuring compliance with safety and quality regulations.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design for large-scale earthworks, including review and oversight of mass grading, erosion control, and deep excavation plans
• Design and manage the development of cooling water intake/discharge systems, stormwater management, and utility corridors
• Ensure all relevant site work complies with NQA-1 standards and NRC construction permit requirements
• Partner with geotechnical teams to manage soil stabilization, rock anchors, and dewatering systems
• Act as the technical lead for civil subcontractors, ensuring work is performed to the highest quality and safety standards
• Contribute to an engineering team that assures proposals and early works packages for selected sites are compatible with our standard product offering
• Establish and maintain strong working relationship with internal engineering teams
• Interface with external partners, customers, and other applicable country specific regulatory agencies as required on technical issues
• Work with proposal and early works teams to build estimates, schedules, and identify risks associated with different opportunities
• Provide guidance to external partner engineering resources to ensure the quality of deliverables
• Support commercial and marketing opportunities to develop new business opportunities
• Protect the Intellectual Property rights of GEVH
• Support GEVH initiatives, corrective action, process improvement and simplification
• Ensure adherence to GEVH’s standards for nuclear safety and compliance

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering or related discipline
• At least 10 years of progressive experience in heavy civil construction or site development
• At least 5 years of experience in the nuclear industry or equivalent large scale new build experience in the power generation industry
• This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government
• Master's or PhD in civil engineering discipline or similar
• Professional Engineer registration in one or more states
• Experience with nuclear site development
• Experience managing very large excavation projects
• Deep knowledge of soil mechanics, mass grading, and heavy excavation
• Advanced skills using Autodesk AEC Collection (Civil 3D), Bentley Infrastructure (OpenRoads), and/or equivalent site design suite
• Proven ability to be a liaison between organizations that are operating in separate geographic locations
• High performing individual with demonstrated ability to deliver results while exhibiting behaviors that promote strong team performance
• Proven interpersonal and leadership skills with the ability to think strategically, be creative and move quickly
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team of highly experienced engineers and balance multiple demands and priorities
• High performing energetic leader with demonstrated ability to deliver results while exhibiting behaviors that promote strong team performance
• Experience with project management skillset (communication, risk, planning/scheduling, change mgmt)
• EPC experience and knowledge; specifically, power plant
• Understanding of nuclear industry and technology
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to document, plan, market and manage programs that further the knowledge, understanding and capability of the business