Senior Geotechnical Engineer

Our client is one of the UK’s few medium size and  fully independent consulting engineers with a serious heavy civil engineering capability. Their national and international success owes much to their high level of technical expertise, client care and agility.

This new position for a geotechnical engineer offers project breadth,  encompassing bridges, buildings, industrial, marine, water services, and renewable energy projects. Their succession plans ensure excellent career prospects to director level. The successful candidate will join a profitable and expanding business, a company with an excellent reputation and very low staff turnover.         

Company Overview: A long established and independently owned consultancy that employs over 150 staff. Their expertise is within geotechnical, civil,  M&E, environmental and building structures engineering. The practice provides favourable terms and conditions of employment, and invests heavily in staff development.    

Your Role: As the leading geotechnical expert in the London office, you will report to the technical director. Your workload  will encompass building and civil engineering projects in the UK and overseas. Duties will include the design of deep and shallow foundations, slopes, retaining walls and basements, assessment and remediation of slopes and earthworks, planning, management and supervision of ground investigations.

Profile Required: A geotechnical engineer with upwards of six years consulting engineering experience. You should hold an MSc in geotechnical engineering or soil mechanics, and be either chartered, incorporated or close to achieving chartered status.  You will need experience of industry standard design and analysis software such as Lusus, Bentley, Oasys or similar packages.  In addition, good interpersonal skills providing the ability to forge productive working relationships with colleagues and clients is essential.