Lead Geotechnical Engineer

Job Title Lead Geotechnical Engineer 

Location Glasgow or London 

Salary from £65,600, up to 20% bonus, family health cover and car allowance  

Flexible Working Pattern, 

Help us create a better future, quicker 

The Lead Geotechnical Engineer is a critical role within the Offshore Renewables Business, focussing on the delivery of large-scale offshore wind projects. 

The Lead Geotechnical Engineer role sits in the Ground Engineering Team within the Site Engineering Department and reports to the Ground Engineering Discipline Manager. 

The successful candidate will initially be the Ground Engineering Lead (GEL) during the pre-FID and construction phase for our East Anglia One North UK offshore wind farm. This will be the main focus of the role, however, as this project moves to completion, the role will be the GEL and / or Lead Geotechnical Engineer on all stages of an offshore wind farm development. With the support of the broad expertise within the Ground Engineering Team, this will offer considerable growth opportunities for the successful candidate. 

The company adopts an intelligent client business model for ground engineering services. This comprises a relatively small pool of company permanent staff with differing sub-disciplines (e.g. geotechnical design, geotechnical survey, engineering geology, geophysical survey etc.). Projects are led by a GEL and supported by external contractors and consultants. In general, the Lead Geotechnical Engineering will be assigned as the GEL on a project(s) with support on relative ground engineering specialisms, as required. The successful candidate will be required to use their technical excellence to identify and manage ground risk. With a strong technical, commercial, contractual and project management background, they shall define scopes of work, lead tendering, and manage survey contractors and specialist consultants. They shall also support other projects in their area of expertise and support the Ground Engineering Discipline manager in leading the development and growth of the Ground Engineering Team. 

What you’ll be doing 

As a GEL, tasks will include: 

• Having overall responsibility on the project for managing ground engineering risks and activities.  

• Lead in defining scopes of work and tendering site investigations campaigns, ensuring: 

• Both project requirements and standards are met; 

• Minimising the ground risk as low as reasonably practicable ensuring a balance between ground risk, CAPEX and packages requirements/ expectations. 

• Lead and manage multi €m offshore site investigations to time, programme and budget.  

• Lead project ground engineering activities supported by the Owner’s Engineer to continually identify, monitor and manage ground engineering risks. 

• Identify where consultancy support is required to manage ground risk. Lead in defining scopes of work, tendering and managing ground engineering consultancy packages.  

• Support and advise the relevant packages during foundation and cable design to ensure ground risk is appropriately managed. 

• Support and advise the relevant packages during the foundation and cable installation to ensure ground risk is appropriately managed.  

• Support and advise the relevant pa