Geotechnical Design Engineer

What will you do?

• Define the requirements and scope of specific packages of design work and ensure closure of requirements through to commissioning and handover
• Champion ‘Safe by Design’ with the design supply chain, to maximise the opportunity to improve the health, safety and wellbeing of all those engaged in and impacted by the project
• Operate within the processes and procedures of the civils programme
• Management and reporting of design delivery performance for time, cost, quality and other performance objectives as required from the supply chain, including the application of robust change management
• Interface with all Internal civils programme functions to ensure project and statutory requirements are understood and implemented and recognised in the design
• Ensure that third party requirements and approvals required during the design stage are discharged appropriately
• Engage with other civils programme functions including commercial, procurement, project controls, construction delivery, H, S&W etc. to ensure that technical issues are suitably understood and recognised
• Hold regular collaborative meetings with the designers and wider teams to review and share problems/issues, promote innovative thinking, capture lessons learnt/best practice, provide technical support and ensure consistency of design
• Challenge the designers’ proposals to de‑risk technical solutions, promote and facilitate value engineering solutions, leading to reductions of quantities, costs and optimisation of the construction programme
• Coordinate the inputs and interfaces of the Technical Assurance Team to ensure a Verified, Validated and Configured design

• Competent technical knowledge and experience of Geotechnical Design
• Ability (and experience) to lead and manage multi-disciplinary/organisation design teams
• Ability to communicate and engage effectively at a range of levels:
  Management Team, client departments, design delivery teams, third party authorise rs etc.
• In depth understanding of project scheduling, commercial arrangements and budget control
• Clear understanding of design and engineering interfaces with: construction teams, commissioning teams, supply chain and third parties

• Competent technical knowledge and experience of Geotechnical design
• Ability (and experience) to lead and manage multi-disciplinary/organisation design teams
• Ability to communicate and engage effectively at a range of levels:
  Management xlqdzyr Team, client departments, design delivery teams, third party authorise rs etc.
• In depth understanding of project scheduling, commercial arrangements, and budget control
• Clear understanding of design and engineering interfaces with: construction teams, commissioning teams, supply chain and third parties

• Degree Level qualified and/ or 5-10 years’ experience in this specific field

• Professional accreditation and/ or Geotechnical sector specific MSc degree

The CWA is a single delivery organisation made up of the client (Sizewell

C) and three parent companies – Balfour Beatty, Bouygues and Laing O'Rourke – which offer industry leading packages including market leading salaries, generous annual leave entitlements, pension scheme and other flexible benefits.