Geological Engineer

Do you want to interpret geological datasets from across the world? Do you want to devise and develop technologically complex solutions for Infra Marine Projects? Have a look at this opportunity!

Geological Engineer at Van Oord

The Position

As a Geologist, you will work within the Infra Marine team of the Tender and Estimating Department at the head office located in Rotterdam. You will be involved in (inter)national dredging tenders and projects, from tendering phase to project execution. This includes challenging work at locations world-wide. From the start you will be fully involved in a multidisciplinary, dynamic and ambitious team.

Your Impact

As a geologist you will be involved with the interpretation of complex geophysical and geotechnical data, which is used to create 3D soil models with in-house software that will be an important input for work methods, planning and production calculations for dredging tenders and projects. Your main tasks and responsibilities:

• Organise and execute geophysical surveys with inhouse systems
• Organize and execute geotechnical investigation
• Processing and interpret geotechnical and geophysical data
• Geological modelling and reporting
• Act as the point of contact within the team for geological related items

For the execution of these tasks, world-wide travelling can be part of the job. This will be on irregular intervals and periods, at various destinations.

Your workplace

You will be part of the Product Line Infra Marine within the Tendering & Engineering department, based at the head office in Rotterdam.

About You

You are proactive, analytical and you want to develop as a Geological Engineer having a key role in one or more tenders/projects. You see a challenge in translating geology to engineering solutions and you have strong skills to communicate this to colleagues and clients. In addition, you possess:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (Applied) Earth Sciences
• Strong analytical skills
• The ambition to develop yourself as a Geological Engineer who acts as a sparring partner for the Tender and Project teams
• Good communication skills, independence, initiative, and accuracy
• Willingness to go abroad or offshore when required

The position is open to starters and people with experience. The position is based in our Rotterdam office.

We Offer

Working in an international, highly demanding and dynamic organisation, with the possibility to truly have impact on our business, people and environment. We offer a complete package with excellent secondary employment benefits. The package includes among other things:

• A salary that matches your responsibilities and experience
• 32 leave days of which a maximum of 7 days can be appointed as collective leave days
• Pension scheme
• Variable bonus
• Extensive learning and (personal) development possibilities
• Travel allowance
• Flexible working hours

You come up with something at your desk and then see it actually working on a ship. That’s incredibly rewarding.
Thomasz Engineer Production Automation