Geotechnical Engineer

Geotechnical Engineer: excellent opportunity within a reputable Medium-sized engineering and environmental consultancy. This role is based in their Buckinghamshire office.

Our client is a successful consultancy delivering engineering, environmental, and project-support services operating throughout the country, while being dedicated to the professional growth and development of their highly qualified engineers. They have many years’ experience working throughout the full lifecycle of construction and infrastructure developments, offering technical expertise across a broad range of sectors to support sustainable, community focused outcomes.

They are now looking for a Geotechnical Engineer to join their growing team. The position involves both site and office responsibilities, including the coordination and reporting of geo-environmental and geotechnical ground investigations, but can involve supervision relating to earthworks, remediation, and validation.

• Fieldwork supervision of site investigations including clearance of services, site walkovers, soil and rock logging, sampling, foundation inspections, infiltration testing, gas and groundwater monitoring. The fieldwork includes an element of manual handling, lifting samples, loading/unloading vans etc.
• Undertake preparation of factual and interpretive geotechnical and contamination reporting (under guidance of a Senior Engineer as required).
• In addition to site investigation tasks, you may be required to assist in undertaking earthworks supervision, remediation supervision, validation of plots, topographical surveys, check inspection covers, and drainage runs, and undertake visual inspections.
• This may also include CQA (Contractor Quality Assurance) supervision work on our landfill sites for both installation of new monitoring and leachate wells.
• Undertake engineering assessment work in accordance with British Standards, Eurocode 7, CIRIA, NHBC etc to successfully deliver projects for our clients.
• You will be required to produce, and coordinate Site Investigations and reporting including health and safety documentation.
• Work closely with other members of the team, in particular Graduate Engineers and technicians in the preparation of site investigations as well as Senior Engineer and other teams as required.
• Undertake coordination with other professionals and contractors as appropriate, and to organise your time to ensure timely delivery of projects.
• Collaborative working with other of the company’s consulting offices. May be required to work out of other offices for short periods depending on team locations.
• Input into fee proposals where necessary.
• Liaise with Clients and other members of the design team to ensure designs meet the Client brief including attendance at design team meetings / site meetings as required.

• Degree in Geology, Environmental Sciences, Engineering Geology, Geotechnical Engineering, Earth Sciences, or any other relevant subject within the field.
• Minimum 2 years’ track record working in similar engineering consultancy or for a site investigation contractor.
• Proficient in logging of soils and rocks to BS5930 and will be expected to support Graduate Engineers and Technicians on site and in the office as required.
• Have a good understanding of the UK geology and be able to interpret geological maps, published data and site data.
• A good knowledge of, and background with, site investigation methods and techniques.
• Have some knowledge and understanding of technical design packages including Geo5 Slope (or similar). Good knowledge of Open ground logging software for logs and cross sections. Have basic knowledge of CAD for producing site plans and cross sections would be an advantage. Knowledge of GIS also an advantage.
• Excellent written and oral skills.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office including Excel which is used for calculations and presenting site data. The ability to carry out hand calculations to check spreadsheets as appropriate is required.
• Work with Senior Engineers to ensure the monitoring and site investigations are carried out as required with a high attention to detail, quality of data and…