Senior Geotechnical Engineer

Black & White Engineering is a multi-award-winning engineering consultancy, with over 1000 employees in teams based in our UK, European, Middle East and Asia Pacific offices. We have been providing a wide range of engineering consultancy services since 2007.

Our engineering expertise reaches across all sectors of the construction industry, providing pragmatic and practical design solutions to ensure our projects are spatially and operationally efficient. Our design process fully considers the installation and maintenance practicalities on site.

As part of the Global Power Systems and Infrastructure team, this role will provide the necessary support for Geotechnical survey expertise to complement and enhance our Mechanical, Electrical and Lead Design Management teams during Site Due Diligence or Land Acquisition activities. In addition, this role will work closely with our Civil engineering team to provide guidance during project execution. The key function of this role is to study and monitor, ground conditions on potential sites identified for development or acquisition.

• Provide input into site due diligence for land acquisition or development
• Gather and interpret geotechnical field data available online or from reports, including mapping, testing and inspection data.
• Prepare professional and technically competent geotechnical summary reports for inclusion in overall due diligence study reports.
• Manage relationships with clients and key stake-holders for high quality output.
• Analyse ground models and design parameters including slopes and other ground conditions.
• Assessing ground models developed during site inspections and soil testing.
• Represent B&W at client stakeholder meetings.

All roles include responsibility for health and safety in line with the requirements set out in the Employee Handbook.

• Awareness of H&S policies and procedures and impact on yourself and team
• Ensure all staff members complete mandatory compliance training when required
• Report any accidents, incidents, near misses appropriately

• This is a senior appointment and will be required to develop full delivery capability including budget setting and achieving internal targets
• Responsible for the development and delivery of the strategic roadmap to grow the team

• A degree in Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering
• 6-10 years relevant experience
• Master’s degree (desirable).
• Progress toward chartership.

• Technical expertise in geotechnical engineering
• Experience in a design consultancy
• Experience in the delivery of geotechnical, engineering geology and other ground engineering projects, including preparing reports to a high technical level
• Familiarity and an ability to interrogate a wide range of geotechnical software for the design of civil engineering projects including deep and shallow foundations (including pile group analysis), embedded and gravity retaining walls, earthworks/slope stability and reinforced earthworks
• Good grasp of soil mechanics
• Proven previous experience of undertaking and managing: desk top studies; designing, procuring & supervising Ground Investigations (GIs); checking Ground Investigation Reports & Geotechnical Design Reports
• The skills to check and critically evaluate the work done by others, be it drawings, calculations or reports, and have a proven track record of doing so
• Application of CDM Regulations in a design and ground investigation environment

The post holder will be expected to operate in line with our workplace values:

ACCOUNTABILITY > Everyone is accountable.

INTEGRITY > We are straight talking, respectful and fair.

SIMPLICITY > Both in our approach and solutions.

SUPPORTIVE > We are approachable, inclusive and recognise success.

QUALITY > We strive to get it right first time, every time.