Principal Geotechnical Engineer

Essential Experience & Competencies:
• Well-rounded geotechnical design experience including foundations (shallow foundation and piles), retaining walls and slope stability assessments.
• Proven experience acting as a senior / principal geotechnical engineer with substantial experience.
• Post-graduate experience in most aspects of projects, including planning, supervising and design, together with examples of applying standards and technical knowledge in projects.
• Earthworks design, specification and implementation.
• Experience in ground investigation design and implementation.
• Experience in the use of routine geotechnical design programs such as VDISP/PDISP, WALLAP, SLIDE, REPUTE and SlopeW.
• Good motivational and people management skills with an ability to influence staff and clients particularly regarding technical issues.
• Experience and understanding of the needs and approaches to engineering consultancy and design markets, including relationships with clients, work planning and commercial management.
• Excellent report writing skills with the ability to self-check and produce accurate deliverables.
• Flexible to travel for short assignments.
• Ability to work within large multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
Qualifications & Experience:
• BEng in Civil Engineering with a geotechnical bias
• MSc / MEng in Geotechnical Engineering or similar
• Chartered Professional (CEng/ CGeol)

Client requires office attendance 3 days a week. Locations can be Warrington/Birmingham/London/Cardiff/Glasgow.