Principal or Associate Geotechnical Engineer

Location/s: Croydon or Birmingham, UK

Recruiter contact: Ainsley Anstess

As a Principal or Associate Geotechnical Engineer in our successful Foundations and Geotechnics team, you will have the opportunity to broaden your experience and work with a range of public and private sector clients on some key and major projects. You will be involved in managing and producing design solutions in line with current Eurocodes, report specifications and drawings covering a range of project requirements within foundations and geotechnics.

You'll deliver various geotechnical and underground structures projects and provide technical leadership through leading the team and managing their design work. You'll also support larger projects acting as client liaison and contributing to risk assessments, employing sustainability and undertaking budgeting and cost control.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Client liaison
• Foundation, retaining wall and earthwork design
• Management and delivery of Ground Investigation (scope, specifications, supervision, GIRs, GDRs etc)
• Manage small and medium projects, including developing client relationships
• Travel to project sites when necessary for project delivery
• Managing medium to large single and multi-disciplinary design teams
• Opportunities to work on major national and international projects
• Lead and manage numerical modelling activities

As a Principal or Associate Geotechnical Engineer in ground engineering and geotechnics, you are able to direct and deliver multiple concurrent projects or one large project on time and within budget. You've designed various geotechnical and foundation solutions using current standards and Eurocodes and have previously worked on a variety of projects. You have strong interpersonal skills and are able to liaise with various clients and build professional relationships.

You are comfortable with your technical expertise in the ground engineering sector and have gained various project management skills throughout your career as well as acted in a technical lead capability on numerous projects. You're an effective communicator and are able to collaborate with all levels of staff and clients. In addition to this, you are a relationship builder and understand the dynamics of working with a team as well as working autonomously.

You are keen to develop your digital literacy in geotechnics. You are able to prioritise the needs of the Client to deliver high quality design to meet their needs.

In addition, you will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Masters or PhD degree in Civil Engineering with emphasis on geotechnics
• Relevant geotechnical experience with experience in technical project delivery
• Chartered Engineer with the ICE or equivalent
• Experience of managing medium to large teams of engineers
• Experience of managing ground investigations, GIRs and GDRs
• Experience guiding and nurturing a team of Engineers in their technical development
• Has mentored early career professionals
• Prepared to travel nationally and internationally as needed for any project
• Numerical modelling experience
• Although not essential, if you have knowledge and experience in programming/scripting (VBA, Python, etc.), this would be advantageous

We are also happy to accept applicants on a full‑time or part‑time basis and are supportive of agile working.

Mott Mac Donald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

At Mott Mac Donald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well‑being, flexibility, and trust.

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