Senior Geotechnical Engineer

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Redstone Commodity Search are working with a major metal’s producer looking to hire a Senior Geotechnical Engineer to join the team in Spain .

Key Responsibilities / Tasks

• Provide geotechnical risk management expertise to the firm’s residue facility, ensuring compliance with the firm’s policy and best international practices.
• Lead civil engineering for residue operations, offer technical approvals and guide the design and construction of residue projects while liaising with other members.
• Maintain and update instrumentation and monitoring systems for residue areas, ensuring adherence to health and safety, as well as country regulations.
• Contribute to residue master planning and act as the responsible Tailings facility Engineer, fostering best practice transfer and supporting the site.
• Role reports to Maintenance and Reliability Manager.

Key Qualifications / Experience

• 5+ years’ experience in geotechnical / tailings dam design, construction, or operation, with expertise in dam stability assessments and critical state soil mechanics.
• Degree in Civil, Geotechnical or Mining engineering
• Strong understanding of tailings management standards (ANCOLD, MAC, CDA, GISTM) soil / tailing characterizations and monitoring systems.
• Fluent in English and Spanish.
• Relocation to Northwest Spain is required, the company can assist with this.