Senior Geotechnical Engineer - #1801572

This role will see you working amongst a diverse and talented Ground Engineering team to design innovative and efficient ground engineering solutions for projects across a variety of sectors and scales - including sports stadia, masterplans, bridges, foundation reuse projects, and more.

Your next role:

• Providing high-quality geotechnical support to our clients in the development of bespoke, sustainable, structural engineering and infrastructure projects in the UK and overseas.
• Technical input into deliverables including specifications, design reports, and geotechnical interpretation.
• Analysis including soil structure interaction, geotechnical numerical modelling, geotechnical substructure, and earthworks design
• Mentoring and technical support for colleagues.
• Technical input to derive innovative and sustainable solutions to ground related challenges.
• Liaise with clients and maintain our strong, unique work culture within the industry.
• Collaboration with colleagues from other disciplines to provide coordinated design solutions.
• Leading and managing project discipline input on projects.
• Playing an active role in supporting work-winning and client relationship management in a ground engineering context.
  
  
  

Your background:

You will hold a master's degree in civil or geotechnical engineering or equivalent and will have a strong desire and drive to deliver quality projects and achieve excellent results. We have a diverse and inclusive team and you will be comfortable working within a multi- cultural and multi-disciplinary environment and speak and write English fluently. You will be used to taking the initiative and responsibility for your assignments and you have an ability to achieve excellent results through teamwork.

Your skills and experience:

• Significant geotechnical design experience across a range of projects typologies.
• Ability to develop pragmatic, cost effective and sustainable solutions
• Experience delivering projects with a strong technical focus including geotechnical interpretation and design.
• Experience of soil and rock engineering including foundation design, slope stability assessment and tunnelling/underground construction.
• Appetite to lead and develop design capabilities.
• Professionally registered with a relevant institution - e.g. ICE.
  
  
  

What we offer you:

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts
• Private medical cover (individual)
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities.
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.
  
  
  

We wish to create a team that is fully inclusive, and welcome applications from those who are seeking flexible or part-time working. If you have any specific requirements that would enable you to take this role, we would be keen to explore this with you.

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact [email protected] so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.