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Minimum Requirements:
High School diploma or equivalent.
Minimum 10 years of experience of relevant experience. Experience in negotiating costs and working with federal, state and local stakeholders and regulators to complete drilling and sampling programs.
Expertise in A-E Contracting, O&M Contracting, planning, scheduling, budgeting, oral communication, computer software, reading maps and technical drawings, preparing Independent Government Estimates (IGE), and managing Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA) for obtaining drilling services.
Comprehensive knowledge of specialized drilling methods and techniques.
Skilled in devising special fixtures, improvising unusual setups and applying special purpose equipment to extend the use of conventional rigs or tools at unusual angles or positions on rough land or marine surfaces.
Expertise in planning, coordinating, and organizing all equipment, tools, and precise drilling mud technology for large specialized deep well core boring drill rigs to core difficult sediments such as non-cohesive soils, irregular subsurface materials, friable deposits, or hard fragments in soft matrices.
Ability to plan, organize and coordinate operations to meet any unusual drilling requirements or adverse terrain conditions, such as selection, safe positioning, and operation of equipment under such adverse conditions as on mountainsides, in swift moving rivers and deep tidal waters.
Expertise in managing complex coring and non-coring assignments such as sampling unconsolidated sediments, coring hard rock, in-situ testing (pressure, permeability, or vane shear), unusual orientations of subsurface drill holes, drilling calyx holes, installing geotechnical instruments in large embankment dams and dam foundations, and grouting.
Job Description:
Do the best work of your life!
URS is a leading provider of engineering, construction and technical services for public agencies and private sector companies around the world. The Company offers a broad range of planning, engineering and architectural design, environmental, construction, program and construction management, systems integration, operations and maintenance, management and a wide range of specialized technical services for the U.S. federal government, state and local government agencies, Fortune 500 companies and other multinational corporations. We provide services for transportation, hazardous waste, industrial infrastructure and process, petrochemical, general building, water/wastewater, military facilities and equipment platforms, and defense and security programs.
The Geotechnial Department of URS is actively seeking a creative, highly talented Senior Drilling Specialist for immediate employment in the St. Louis office. The appropriately qualified applicant will be able to demonstrate an established career in specialized drilling. EOE M/F/D/V
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