Tunnel Engineering: Take Your Career to New Depths!
March 4, 2023
Check out the full Caves & Tunnels Team Recruitment brochure here.
Who We Are Looking For
Senior tunneling Consultant
Sonora, CA
Provost & Pritchard is looking for someone with interest in working on projects from inception and feasibility through design and construction.
The right person would have an entrepreneurship mindset and interested in both integrating into our current workload as well as sharing our vision for expansion.
The ideal candidate would have extensive tunneling/underground experience with design, construction and management at all levels of a project.
Associate Engineer
Sonora, CA
Provost & Pritchard is looking for a licensed and experienced Professional Civil/Geotechnical Engineer with 5 – 10 years of experience, preferably with a tunneling background.
This position may fill a variety of roles and responsibilities including design, construction management, calculations, data analysis, and consulting.
Our team works on wine cave tunnel complexes, private residential tunnels, small to medium water district tunnels and canals, tourist mines, and earth-retention structures.
About Our Caves & Tunnels Service Sector
Looking for a change? Our Caves & Tunnels team offers consultation and engineering services for tunnels and alternative underground structure design and construction. Our engineers and geologists have worked on teams with owners, architects, building structural engineers, and contractors on more than 350 cave and tunnel building projects across California; and have worked on a wide range of new tunnel design and construction projects over the past 30 years. One of the exciting projects our team is focused on is the final design of a 12,000 foot long tunnel for an irrigation district to replace several thousand-feet long canal and tunnel systems that are over 100 years old. The geologic hazards in the area present challenges for the district to be able to maintain the water commitments to their constituents and the preferred solution is what is referred to as the Canyon Tunnel. We anticipate final design to be completed at the end of 2023 and construction to begin in the spring of 2025.
Services provided by our Caves and Tunnels Team include:
- Site feasibility
- Consultation and preliminary schematic design
- Site subsurface investigations
- Geostructural engineering
- Design engineering for permitting and construction
- Engineering oversight/construction management
Our Team
Provost & Pritchard has experienced professionals to meet the technical and management requirements for completing work in a competent and cost-effective manner. Depending on the project scope, the following lead professionals conduct the work with the support of staff and associate engineers and geologists, computer-aided drafting, word processing, and accounting personnel as needed.
Scott W. Lewis, PG, CEG
Principal Tunneling Consultant & Engineering Geologist
Mr. Lewis serves as the leader for the Caves & Tunnels group, and is known for his specialty in underground design and construction work. He has over 30 years of experience in geologic investigations, design and construction of new tunnel and rehabilitation projects, structural foundations, landslides, slope stability, dam project sites, and geologic hazards.
Andrew S. Kositsky, PE, GE
Principal Civil/Geotechnical Engineer
Mr. Kositsky has over 25 years of experience in geotechnical and geostructural engineering and serves as Provost & Pritchard’s lead engineer for our projects including wine tunnels and caves, dams, retaining walls, and shoring projects.
Kate Lewis
Associate Geologist
Ms. Lewis serves as associate tunnel geologist for Provost & Pritchard and is responsible for drilling coordination and core logging, tunnel logging and mapping, and construction observation for general conformance with project specifications.
Kim Tarantino
Senior Project Administrator
Ms. Tarantino serves as project administrator for Provost & Pritchard and assists with client and project management and coordination of all aspects of projects.
About the Firm
Provost & Pritchard has experienced professionals to meet the technical and management requirements for completing work in a competent and cost-effective manner. Depending on the project scope, the following lead professionals conduct the work with the support of staff and associate engineers and geologists, computer-aided drafting, word processing, and accounting personnel as needed.
Our Sonora Office
Our Culture & Core Values
We help people pursue the things that interest them because we know they will be happier and more successful as will the company.
We are one Provost & Pritchard. We are not just focused on our personal situation. We all benefit when the company succeeds, both in profitability and reputation.
We consider family a priority, so we encourage flexibility. We need to get our work done, but we need to get to our kid’s ballgame.
We like to have fun together both at work and outside of work. We love our office olympics, the broken rod, employee roasts, and helping our communities.
We hire people who are humble, hungry, smart, and that fit in with our culture. We believe in training our replacements to carry on the service we provide to our clients.
We believe in servant leadership, transparency, and an open door policy.
We strive to live our core values each day.