Senior or Associate Geotechnical Engineer

Buro Happold

United Kingdom

Ref: HP431-264

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Senior or Associate Geotechnical Engineer - Bath, United Kingdom

Buro Happold is a professional services firm providing engineering consultancy, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of buildings, infrastructure and the environment.

Our Ground Engineering group is involved in a wide variety of challenging and exciting projects. Current workload includes major UK underground tunnelling projects, a 500 metre supertall in the Middle East, major masterplanning projects in Saudi Arabia, a large-scale redevelopment in West London, and sports stadiums in the UK and worldwide. The team has a truly global reach traditionally delivering projects across the UK and Middle East, but also pioneering or leading growth regions for Buro Happold in countries such as India and China.

We are currently recruiting for a Senior or Associate level Geotechnical Engineer in our Bath office to provide high level technical/design engineering service to the Group acting as Job or Project Leader on projects as required.

This is an opportunity to be part of a dynamic and growing team and to manage the ground engineering elements of large complex jobs, including tall building foundation design and deep basement design in the UK and overseas. Demands are high, but in return we offer a collaborative, creative and professional working environment with rewarding career opportunities in a practice setting new standards. The Bath team works with major clients and world-class project teams on a wide variety of high profile buildings, environment and infrastructure projects in the UK and overseas.

A Senior Engineer or Associate must be able to deliver to the agreed very high technical standards. Very numerate with a highly developed problem solving ability supported by strong communication skills.

Responsibilities:
- Act as Job or Project Leader.
- Be a competent geotechnical designer of foundations, retaining structures, basements and earthworks.
- Work with UK and potentially overseas ground investigation technologies.
- Some overseas travel may be required as part of the role.
- Work competently on an independent basis.
- Prepare technical and financial proposals for new work.
- Manage workload of Project Discipline Engineers, Graduates and Technicians (including verification of quality). Review the work of junior colleges as appropriate;
- Prepare and take responsibility for concept to detailed engineering solutions.
- Have an appreciation of geo-environmental issues.
- Be able to deliver a portfolio of ground engineering projects at any time.
- Prepare Technical Specifications.
- Set up and manage job/project administrative systems, including planning and monitoring job resourcing/expenditure (adjusting these as necessary).
- Ensure senior staff are kept informed of important and relevant service/design decisions and the objectives of the client are achieved.
- Plan and manage CAD documentation of design work.
- Represent BH at meetings with the client, other professionals and suppliers.
- Ensure service and project work are carried out within agreed deadlines and within budget.
- Coordinating his/her work with other members of the project team.
- Ensuring all relevant BH staff are informed of client matters.
- Continually ensuring that practices, policies, strategy and services represent the clients and Buro Happolds best interests and that BH policy is in keeping with current legislation, British Standards and Codes of Practice etc.
- Be committed to on-going CPD as part of Chartership requirements.
- Mentor and assist Graduate Engineers and Engineer grade staff.

The post holder must at all times carry out his/ her duties with due regard to the Buro Happold Equality & Diversity Policy.

Requirements

- Strong foundation, basement, earthworks and ground treatment design skills.
- Significant relevant experience of designing geotechnical solutions within a consulting engineering environment on a range of buildings and civil engineering projects.
- Working knowledge of SLOPE, Plaxis 2D (and ideally Plaxis 3D) and WALLOP design packages.
- A good understanding of ground investigation techniques and its importance to deriving appropriate design parameters.
- High standard of interpretative report writing skills.
- Have achieved Chartered Engineer or Chartered Geologist status.
- Ability to accept a high degree of responsibility in a team-based organisation, combined with ability to work independently.
- Experience of using Excel (a detailed understanding including the use of macros).
- The applicant will need to have strong interpersonal and organisational skills.
- Ability to propose multiple solutions to Clients and objectively summarise the benefits and shortfalls of each.
- The ability to plan and deliver projects whilst working in a team or under minimal supervision is essential.

Desirable Experience
- Ideally, the candidate will have experience of working on a variety of challenging domestic and overseas projects.
- Be able to demonstrate a commitment to CPD and self-learning / development.

Qualifications:
- First degree in Civil Engineering or similar related Engineering qualification.
- Chartered Engineer or Chartered Geologist.

Desirable:
- An MSc in Geotechnical Engineering, Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering or a similar subject.

Additional attributes:
- Mobility to travel and spend periods abroad where projects necessitate.

About the Company

Described by our clients as passionate, innovative, collaborative: BuroHappold Engineering is an independent, international engineering practice that over the last 40 years has become synonymous with the delivery of creative, value led building and city solutions for an ever changing world. Having worked on every continent, our clients include more than 90% of the worlds leading architectural practices and we have collaborated with global organisations such as the United Nations, The World Bank and UNESCO. Through our global community of driven, world leading engineering professionals we deliver elegant solutions for buildings and cities that seek to address the major problems facing societies today.

As an organisation we strive for progress and are committed to finding new and better ways to deliver elegant solutions. We recognise that this can only happen if our people can keep up with, create and implement the latest developments in technology and ideas. We offer learning and development opportunities at every level, to help shape exciting and personally satisfying careers and ensure our engineers stay at the cutting edge of industry thought.

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