These are the ATS keywords, credentials, and software terms that recur across current geotechnical engineer job descriptions — organized so you can scan for what your resume is missing. Placement matters as much as presence: an ATS keyword buried in a skills list ranks lower than the same term used in context inside an experience bullet.

Title variants

  • Geotechnical Engineer
  • Senior Geotechnical Engineer
  • Ground Engineer
  • Foundation Engineer
  • Geoenvironmental Engineer
  • Tunnelling Engineer
  • Slope Stability Engineer
  • Earthworks Engineer
  • GI Engineer
  • Geo-structural Engineer
  • Principal Geotechnical Engineer

Ground investigation

  • CPTu
  • CPT
  • cone penetration test
  • SPT
  • standard penetration test
  • N value
  • N60
  • borehole
  • dynamic probing
  • vane shear test
  • pressuremeter
  • plate load test
  • laboratory testing
  • triaxial
  • CIU
  • CAU
  • CD
  • oedometer
  • consolidation
  • Atterberg limits
  • BS 1377
  • BS EN ISO 22475
  • MASW
  • seismic CPT
  • Vs30
  • Eurocode 8 ground type

Design codes

  • Eurocode 7
  • EC7
  • BS EN 1997
  • DA1
  • Design Approach 1
  • Combination 1
  • Combination 2
  • BS 8004
  • BS 8081
  • CIRIA C574
  • BS EN 1997-2
  • UK National Annex
  • GEO limit state
  • UPL limit state

Software

  • PLAXIS
  • PLAXIS 2D
  • PLAXIS 3D
  • Mohr-Coulomb
  • Hardening Soil
  • Soft Soil Creep
  • Cam-Clay
  • GeoStudio
  • SLOPE/W
  • SEEP/W
  • SIGMA/W
  • WALLAP
  • LimitState:GEO
  • Settle3
  • RS2
  • RS3
  • Rocscience
  • FLAC
  • MIDAS
  • RocPlane
  • Unwedge
  • AutoCAD Civil 3D
  • ArcGIS
  • AGS
  • KeyaGS

Foundation types

  • bored pile
  • CFA pile
  • driven pile
  • CAPWAP
  • pile load test
  • bearing capacity
  • settlement
  • differential settlement
  • secant pile wall
  • sheet pile
  • soldier pile
  • ground anchor
  • soil nail
  • spread foundation
  • raft
  • mat foundation

Slope stability

  • SLOPE/W
  • GeoStudio
  • Bishop
  • Spencer
  • Morgenstern-Price
  • factor of safety
  • FS
  • limit equilibrium
  • shear strength reduction
  • SSR
  • undrained analysis
  • drained analysis
  • debris flow
  • landslide
  • inclinometer
  • piezometer
  • monitoring

Ground improvement

  • vibro-compaction
  • stone columns
  • PVDs
  • prefabricated vertical drains
  • deep soil mixing
  • DSM
  • jet grouting
  • JGP
  • grouting
  • lime stabilisation
  • cement stabilisation
  • vacuum consolidation
  • ground freezing
  • geosynthetics

Tunnelling

  • TBM
  • EPB
  • slurry TBM
  • volume loss
  • settlement trough
  • Gaussian trough
  • NATM
  • secant lining
  • sprayed concrete lining
  • SCL
  • segmental lining
  • convergence
  • monitoring
  • trigger level

Credentials

  • CEng ICE
  • CGeol GSL
  • MIoM
  • CIRIA
  • ISSMGE
  • ICE

Long-tail phrases

  • geotechnical engineer resume
  • geotechnical engineer cv
  • how to write a geotechnical engineer resume
  • geotechnical engineer resume 2026
  • ground engineer resume
  • foundation engineer resume
  • PLAXIS geotechnical engineer resume
  • Eurocode 7 geotechnical resume
  • slope stability engineer resume

Pasting these terms into your resume verbatim without matching context can read as keyword stuffing to a human reviewer, even if it passes the ATS. The full Geotechnical Engineer resume guide shows where each category belongs and how to work it into real experience bullets.