Senior Geotechnical Design Engineer
Purpose
Produce geotechnical and civil engineering design deliverables for projects in the water and rail industries.
Working Location
Manchester, UK
Contract Type
Permanent position
Key Responsibilities
- Provide design deliverables that satisfy safety and quality requirements.
- Produce design calculations and drawings.
- Direct and develop CAD technicians, more junior designers, and graduates.
- Prepare design investigations, reports, and specifications.
- Design in compliance with relevant technical, professional, and group standards.
- Ensure project change for design packages is fully implemented and recorded.
- Undertake work using formal processes and procedures.
- Estimate hours required for design packages.
- Present and attend internal design meetings and design presentations.
Required Qualifications and Experience
- 10 years relevant design experience in geotechnical and/or civil engineering.
- Good geotechnical understanding, including the ability to produce ground investigation specifications, interpretive reports, and design reports.
- Degree or HND in a relevant discipline.
- Good level of IT proficiency.
- Registered with a professional body and working towards chartership.
- Experience working in a regulated infrastructure industry (for example rail, utilities, nuclear, highways, oil and gas).
Preferred Qualifications and Experience
- Chartered engineer status.
- Experience in geotechnical and civil engineering design.
- Awareness of ground investigation and construction methods and materials.
- Knowledge of engineering drawing practices.
- Experience working in the water or railway industries.
Key Skills
- Communication.
- Results focused.
- Strong technical knowledge.
- Developer of self and others.
- Problem solving.
- Technical main discipline expertise.
- Technical subsidiary discipline understanding.