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Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design,
engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving
quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many
curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and
deliver more impact together.
Role Description:
As a Senior Geotechnical Engineer at Arcadis, you will play a key role in
delivering some of the UK’s most exciting and challenging infrastructure
projects. You will work alongside a talented team, contributing to geotechnical
design, ground investigations, and technical reporting. This is a fantastic
opportunity to develop your expertise, collaborate with leading professionals,
and make a positive impact on the built and natural environment.
Role accountabilities:
Responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:
• Supporting the development and implementation of engineering solutions.
• Independently drive routine projects and non-routine projects with technical
guidance.
• Management of resources in single or multiple project deliveries.
• Participating in the resolution of technical issues.
• Collaborating with other design disciplines to ensure the integrity of the
overall design.
• Providing technical input and support to project teams and championing
quality and innovation.
• Ensuring compliance of produced deliverables, including drawings, reports,
specifications and studies with project requirements.
• Experience in commercial aspects of projects (contract, invoicing, debt
management, client management etc) relating to projects for which
responsible.
• Building relationships and liaising with the Project Director or Manager and
the Client.
• Checking of geotechnical calculations, drawings, specifications, reports and
other project documentation produced by junior engineers in line with company
and client requirements as well as national standards and codes of practice.
• Assisting and participating in developing yourself and other team members.
• Gaining experience and complying with relevant H & S regulations and
promoting a culture of awareness within the team.
• Performing other duties and responsibilities as required from time to time by
your line manager and Team Leader.
Qualifications & Experience:
• BEng in Civil Engineering with a geotechnical bias; or BSc/BEng in Geoscience
related degree
• MSc / MEng in Geotechnical Engineering or similar
• Chartered Engineer or imminently due to sit Professional Review.
• Well-rounded geotechnical design including foundations (shallow and deep
foundations ), retaining walls and slope stability assessments.
• Desirable (but not required) experience in Finite Element Analysis (e.g.
Plaxis).
• Growing (post-graduate) experience in most aspects of projects, including
planning, supervising and designing, together with examples of applying
standards and technical knowledge in projects.
• Earthworks design, specification and implementation.
• Good written communication skills and ability to check significant elements
of technical reports.
• Ability to check and prepare accurate deliverables.
• Good verbal communication and motivational skills.
• Experience in ground investigation design and implementation.
• Experience in the use of routine geotechnical design applications such as
Oasys suite (PDISP, XDISP, GRETA, PILE, FREW, ALP), WALLAP, REPUTE and
SlopeW.
• Experience in the use of routine geotechnical data management applications
such as OpenGround (required) or Leapfrog (desirable).
• Good motivational and people management skills with an ability to influence
staff and clients particularly regarding technical issues.
• Ability to work within large multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
• Knowledge and experience of commercial aspects of projects.
• Team player, self-starter and problem solver with a “Can-do” attitude.
• Flexible to travel in UK.
• Full and valid driving licence.
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We
believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a
skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and
expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make
together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver
sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your
career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we
take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our
actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place
to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people
with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality,
diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we
work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability,
Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to
our success.
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