Meet Sam Glue

Job:

Geotechnical Engineer

Job description:

Geotechnical design of foundations, embankments and retaining walls to resist seismic loads and liquefaction/lateral spreading effects.

Work background:

Since 2005, I have worked in Greymouth, Western Australia, Christchurch and Wellington on a variety of projects including:

2005-2007 Graduate Geotechnical Engineer, MWH, Greymouth
2007-2008 Site Geotechnical Engineer, MWH, Western Australia
2008-2013 Geotechnical Engineer, MWH, Christchurch
2013-2014 Geotechnical Engineer, Tonkin and Taylor/Memorial Park Alliance, Wellington.

Favourite part of job:

Working on major projects and being a part of something that will be used by society for generations.

Least favourite part of job:

Unfortunately soil is highly variable and occasionally your assumptions can be wrong in design, leading to some stressful changes in the field.

Qualifications:

BE (Civil) Hons Canterbury University

Interests outside work:

Snowboarding, mountain biking, boating.

Watch the video where Sam talks about his work (14Mb mp4 file).

Sam Glue is a geotechnical engineer.