Geotechnical Engineer
York
Permanent
Office/Home Hybrid Working
Every structure starts below the surface — and getting that right takes skill, curiosity, and a deep understanding of the ground itself. We're looking for an experienced Geotechnical Engineer who's mastered those fundamentals and is ready for bigger challenges. Do you thrive on solving complex, real-world engineering problems? Are you ready to shape some of the UK's most ambitious and prestigious projects
Then join our team and let's get to work.
Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow
To grow our Engineering team in the UK, we are looking for a Geotechnical Engineer to join us. Working across a wide range of projects, you'll play a key role in delivering some of the most prestigious infrastructure programmes in the UK. You'll also be supported by senior colleagues in your continued professional development, including progression towards (or beyond) Chartership, with a tailored plan to achieve your career aspirations.
Your key responsibilities will be:
- Performing a wide variety of geotechnical engineering design activities in accordance with project requirements, including collating and understanding data, modelling and running analyses, preparing calculations and reports, and working with colleagues to deliver consistently high-quality project work
- Undertaking site-scale engineering geological mapping and modelling, writing desk study reports, ground investigation reports and geotechnical design reports, preparing ground investigation specifications, checking technical drawings
- Planning, supporting and supervising ground investigations
- Undertaking design calculations and technical drawings
- Contributing to the dissemination of engineering good practice and implementation of our in-house tools such as the carbon calculation tool
- Being responsible for delivering your own work to a high technical standard, ensuring accuracy through a diligent and careful approach to self-checking
- Supporting and guiding junior team members, sharing your technical knowledge and helping to build team capability
Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.
The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve. On top of that, you:
- Have a bachelor's or master's degree either in Civil/Structural/Geotechnical Engineering (BEng, BSc, MEng, MSc)
- Should be working towards Incorporated or Chartered Engineer status (MICE or equivalent)
- Should have a sound understanding of CDM Regulations, specifically the designer’s requirements and requirements regarding the design risk assessment process
- Have relevant experience in a geotechnical engineering consultancy or comparable setting, supporting projects from investigation through design
- Display relevant expertise and a consistent focus on technical quality in engineering geology or geotechnical engineering
- Ability and willingness to work in a diverse and multi-disciplinary team
- Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills in English
- Should hold a Full UK driving license
A place to work and so much more
At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. That is why we say no to fossil-based projects and aspire to have 100% of our revenue come from activities that move our customers towards sustainability.We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home. With offices primarily located in the Scandanavia, the UK and Ireland, North America and India, we are currently more than 8,000 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.
What we also offer:
To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.
Some of our benefits include:
- 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays
- Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
- Private health care, for you and a contribution from you for your immediate dependents
- Flexible and hybrid working conditions
- Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
- Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange
- Life assurance
- Maternity Leave: 1-20 weeks full pay, 21-26 weeks half pay, 27-39 Statutory (SMP) 40-52 weeks unpaid (eligibility criteria will apply)
- Paternity Leave: 12 weeks full pay (eligibility criteria will apply)
Optional benefits include:
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Electric vehicle lease
- Corporate gym membership
- Annual Rail card (available for under 30s)
Got more questions?
If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Shruti Gupta at [email protected]
Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.
Equal opportunity employer.
COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
