Principal Geotechnical Engineer

Job Description

Mott MacDonald

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About the Business Unit

You will be joining a Ground Engineering Team covering Northern Ireland, Ireland and Scotland (NIS). As part of our growing business in Northern Ireland and Ireland, we are interested in hearing from enthusiastic and talented individuals to develop and grow our geotechnical offering in Ireland.

Overview of the Role

The focus of the role is two fold:
1. To build strong internal and external relationships with Mott MacDonald teams and potential clients by networking and promoting our expertise in Northern Ireland and Ireland with the aim of growing the team.
2. Technical and commercial delivery of ground engineering projects in Ireland and beyond.
The role will be varied and offers fantastic opportunities for personal and career development. The candidate will report to team leads based in Scotland and will provide ground engineering support and expertise on projects across the NIS region. You will also mentor and develop junior staff.
The team is currently involved in a wide variety of projects working across multiple sectors including building structures, rail, power, renewables, highways, maritime, dams & hydro, water & flooding and forestry. You will deliver geotechnical projects from inception through to detailed design and construction stages.
You will join a team formed of civil/geotechnical engineers, contaminated land consultants and engineering geologists. The team comprises a mix of graduates, chartered engineers and team leaders who deliver projects in our target sectors.

You will be expected to control project resources including monitoring against budget; prepare and manage work programmes to deliver to deadlines; develop client relationships; contribute to bid submissions, comply with corporate governance processes as well as to support development of the teams technical capability.

The role will be primarily office-based however flexibility is required to attend site visits, client meetings, and for GI site-supervision as may be required by our projects. Travel to other offices in the UK and Ireland is also expected to be required periodically

Candidate Specification

Essential:
• Degree qualified in civil/geotechnical engineering or engineering geology and professionally qualified (Chartered).
• Demonstrable extensive record delivering geological/ geotechnical projects using applicable standards and principles
• Broad knowledge and understanding of civil and geotechnical engineering with practical design experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to build relationships with colleagues and provide geotechnical support in key sectors
• Quality assurance – track record of checking of reports and designs to ensure quality standards are met.
• Commercial awareness and ability to communicate and manage project change
Desirable
• Geotechnical design experience including (for example) shallow and deep foundations, settlement assessment, retaining walls, ground improvement and slope stability analysis
• Producing geological, geotechnical and geo-environmental desk studies, ground investigation specifications and managing ground investigation projects
• Experience of line management and/ or leading a small team
• Day-to-day mentoring and development of graduate engineers.
• Shall embrace and promote digital methods of working and reporting.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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