Geotechnical Engineer

Competitive Salary, based on skills and experience

Permanent

Peterborough Office and Home working

Full Time / 37 Hours a week

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will be in Peterborough with travel to sites across the region.

Dive into a world of Water!

We are currently looking for a Permanent Geotechnical Engineer to join the team. The role will support the Engineering community across the business and embedded alliances by enabling critical decision making in the creation of new assets, as well as supporting the extension and re-use of existing assets and land area.

The role will work closely with a diverse group ranging from some major capital investments in securing the regions long term water needs through to medium capital schemes and supporting long term assessment of business-critical assets.

You will work in close partnership with our Innovation Team and their drive towards reducing carbon by reducing waste and promoting material re-use; supporting our drive towards being a carbon neutral business by 2030.

You will offer, where needed, technical supervision of ground investigation fieldworks and liaison with ground investigation contractors.

Interpretation and verification of ground investigation data including presentation of appropriate ground model, development of geotechnical design parameters and presentation of ground risks.

Where needed, Liaison with wider non specialist project team members (design and construction) to develop best-value engineering designs and clearly communicate identified project ground risks and suitable mitigation.

Offer support and guidance, where necessary, to temporary works designers in both planned and emergency works.

As a valued employee, you'll be entitled to:

• Full private healthcare with no excess
  
• 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
  
• A flexible working culture
  
• Competitive pension scheme - we double-match your contributions up to 6%
  
• Life Assurance at eight times your salary
  
• Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary
  
• Bonus Scheme
  
• Lots of great discounts
  
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
  
• Paid time off when you're physically and mentally unwell
  
• An excellent Family Leave package - to help you support your family
  

What does it take to be a Geotechnical Engineer?

• Strong academic background, with a good civil engineering, geology or related bachelor's degree (BEng/BSc) and a higher degree in geotechnical engineering or engineering geology (MEng/MSc)
  
• Strong geotechnical and engineering geology design competencies, ideally in the water/wastewater sector
  
• A good understanding of CDM and its application
  
• Good communication, report writing, team working and problem-solving skills
  
• Design & Build experience preferable
  
• Experience liaising closely with construction teams
  
• Competent in the use of industry standard geotechnical design software (e.g., Slope/W, Seep/W, gINT, Leapfrog Works, Settle 3D)
  
• Working towards Chartership through a relevant Institution (ICE/IOM3/GeolSoc)
  

Opportunities are open to all suitably qualified candidates.

Why Anglian Water?

Anglian Water is not your typical water company. What we do really matters. Water is the lifeblood of our world and we're proud of the difference we make. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly love what we do!

If you're passionate about what you do and would like to make a difference then we'd love to hear from you.

Closing date: 30th November 2022

Interviews: ASAP

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