A lovely family-run business is seeking an experienced Geotechnical Engineer to help with design packages from early-stage inception to costing and completion of design packages for retaining solutions. Working in a friendly office environment with banter and lots of love, this job is ideal for someone wanting a nice place to work! You will be assessing the commercial impact of chosen designs with customers and providing geotechnical advice to our team and clients with in house training where possible.
Location: Staffordshire (on-site) flexitime
Responsibilities
- Manage design packages from early feasibility and costing stages through to the completion/ checking of formal design packages for retaining solution
- Assessing ground investigations and completing numerical modeling to ensure solutions are EC7 and BS compliant and producing design reports
- Site visits may also be possible to validate design models and assess sites before construction.
- Investigate the commercial aspects of the solutions and liaise with clients to help with value engineering
- Interpretation of ground investigation and client drawings in the completion of design reports
- Use of modeling software to aid in validating proposed solutions
- Working in conjunction with others within the technical team to determine initial solutions and produce the relevant CAD details
- Liaising with clients to help investigate solutions
- Work on AutoCAD
- Assessing and coordinating geotechnical testing requirements on-site
- Visiting the site to confirm ground models and aid in quality assurance
Requirements
- Degree in geology/ civil engineering BEng, BSc or equivalent
- MSc in Geotechnical engineering or Engineering Geology
- Working towards chartered status
- +3 years experience in a relevant civil engineering/ geotechnical engineering field
- Knowledge of computer software e.g Geo5
- Experience in AutoCAD
- Practical knowledge of geotechnical properties, ground investigation and geotechnica report writing
- Knowledge of Eurocode/ British standard compliant design preferably with respect to retaining walls
Package
- Salary 30,000 to 38,000 depending on experience
- Pension, contribution
- Company events & hospitality events such as sports!
- Hours- 37.5 per week. 8:30am-5pm
- Holidays- 23 days + 5 days over Christmas + bank holidays