Senior Geotechnical Engineer
Reference: CL.08.05.003
Salary: Negotiable depending on experience plus excellent benefits
Location: North West
Job Description
Our client offers a full range of advisory and design services to deliver cutting-edge infrastructure and property solutions. They are extremely well established and have a global team of experts. They are extremely proactive in creating innovative solutions, which generate sustainable and commercial advantage for our clients and the communities they serve.
Our client has an excellent opportunity available; they require a senior geotechnical engineer to lead a small geoenvironmental team. Project work will be over a number of client sectors (rail, highways, water, land regeneration etc.)
The successful candidate will:
• Lead the geotechnical aspects of projects; assist existing staff with a view to building the geotechnical team under their leadership
• Be expected to interface with clients, seek new opportunities and obtain new work leading to opportunities locally, nationally and overseas
• Have a high degree of autonomy to undertake their project work as they see fit with respect to clients’ expectations
• Visit sites, arrange investigations, attend meetings, undertake and direct design, and produce reports accordingly
Our client is renowned for being an excellent company to work for they offer an attractive salary, benefits, high quality training and development along with a wide range of local and global career opportunities.
Requirements:
• Undergraduate degree in relevant technical subject (Civil Engineering, Environmental Science, Engineering Geology)
• An applicable post graduate degree (MSc, MEnvSci) or a
Chartered Status would be preferable
• Postgraduate experience (preferably in Design Consultancy) including supervising aspects of geotechnical projects
• Experience of managing specialist sub-consultants and
project management
• Experience in the use & implementation of quality assurance systems
• Experience in considering commercial matters in the conduct of duties
• Knowledge of geotechnical analysis software (gInt, Oasys, Slide, Slope/W, WALLAP, PLAXIS)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A high level of critical thinking and engineering judgment
• Self motivated
• Ability to mentor junior staff and possess influencing and delegation skills
• Ability to build rapport with work colleagues and demonstrated team player
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