Miles Thompson

Experience

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  The Fletcher Construction Company Limited

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

  Student Engineer
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  Tonkin & Taylor

  Jan 2010 - May 2011

  Civil Engineer

  Retaining wall design; site investigation; foundation design; slope failure investigations and remediation; construction verification; scaffold structure design.Use of WALLAP, Slope/W, Seep/W, gINT, and MicroSTRAN.Developed MathCAD worksheets to assist with geotechnical and structural design calculations.

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  Rio Tinto Coal Australia

  Jun 2011 - Feb 2016

  Geotechnical Engineer

  Responsible for managing geotechnial investigations, highwall and dump stability designs and analysis, floor shear disruption, slope monitoring (including slope radar and TDR systems) and design compliance, hazard inspections and reports, workforce hazard identification training. Implemented geotechnical management systems and plans across three mine sites to comply with legislative and internal requirements to auditable standards.

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  Consulting Earth Scientists Pty Ltd

  Mar 2016 - Feb 2018

  Geotechnical Engineer

  Projects include:-Landfill lining and capping design-Landfill construction quality assurance-Leachate and landfill gas assessment-Groundwater flow modelling-Geotechnical site investigation and reporting-Slope risk assessment-Site classification-Waste classification-Preliminary and Detail Environmental Site Assessments, site validation. Use of: ArcGIS, VisualMODFLOW, VisualHELP

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  Cardno

  Mar 2018 - Nov 2019

  Geotechnical Engineer
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  Act Geotechnical Engineers

  Nov 2019 - Jun 2021

  Senior Geotechnical Engineer
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  CMW Geosciences

  Jun 2021 - now

  • Principal Geotechnical Engineer

    Jul 2024 - now

  • Associate Geotechnical Engineer

    Jun 2021 - Jul 2024