Senior Geotechnical Engineer/Engineering Geologist

Managerial

• Taking responsibility and ownership of projects, understanding outputs required, deadlines, consultation requirements, liaising with the project team, managing client expectations, and feeding any matters arising back to senior team
• Managing workload of other engineers/staff members on projects that you are responsible for
• Regular direct telephone and email contact with clients and collaborators
• Attending and contributing to meetings under the direction of a Project Manager/Project Director or as the sole representative of Civic Earth
• Managing, mentoring and developing junior members of the team
• Business development to include participating in networking events, contributing to writing bids and fee proposals etc
• Project financial and commercial awareness

Behaviour and Professional Commitment

• Actively working towards Chartered Status
• Participation in and presentation at Civic Academy and other CPD opportunities
• Maintaining a record of your CPD and a Development Action Plan
• Demonstrating behaviour consistent with Civic's Values and contributing to the progress of the organisation

Qualifications

• A degree in Geology, Engineering Geology, Civil/Geotechnical engineering, or similar
• Chartered or working towards Chartership with the ICE, GeolSoc or IES
• Strong relevant design experience in a commercial environment

Competencies

• A detailed understanding of industry processes including those for planning applications, procurement and technical approvals
• Experience in the use of industry software such Civil 3D and AutoCAD, Bentley Open Ground (or similar logging software) and geotechnical modelling software (e.g. PDISP, WALLAP, PLAXIS etc.
• Excellent communication skills- person to person, written and graphical
• Excellent report writing skills
• Excellent numerical, analytical and problem-solving skills
• High level of competence in the use of MS Office products (including Excel and Word)
• Commercial awareness
• Excellent team working capabilities
• Excellent time management of self and others

Our Values

• Be Collaborative - Engage with others and collaborate positively
• Be Curious - Master your current role, seek and share knowledge and expertise
• Be Helpful - Demonstrate professionalism, willingly take on new responsibilities without necessarily being asked
• Be Passionate - Take ownership of your role and support others to achieve success in theirs
• Be Ingenious - Find ways to get results by adapting and innovating

Benefits

• 💰 A fair and competitive salary, taking into consideration market rates and your experience level
• 🫶 Flexibility. Our core hours are between 10:30am-4:30pm, with an early Friday finish!
• ⚖️ Hybrid working. Most of our full-time employees come into the studio 3 days a week
• 🌴 Generous holidays! 26 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part time employees). An extra day when you reach 3 years' service, and another at 5 years!
• 🌞 Holiday options. Buy or sell a week of holiday each year, or create a sabbatical pot by banking a week's holiday for 3 years to take a month off on year 4!
• 👪 Enhanced Family Leave. Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental and neonatal care leave pay, plus 2 days paid dependency leave and 1 weeks paid carers leave
• 🌱 Wellbeing support. Mental health first aider support, mindfulness sessions and access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• 🩹 Health benefits. Life Assurance, Health Care Cash Plan, Gym discounts and free Eye tests
• 🤒 Sick Pay. 4 weeks enhanced sick leave, plus 2 mental wellness days
• ⭐ DEI network. An established Equity, Diversity and Inclusion network with regular team activities, plus 2 days of paid volunteering leave each year to support causes close to your heart
• 💡 Professional Development. Paid professional memberships, 2 days paid study leave (+ extra for exams), Chartership Preparation Courses, Chartership completion bonus, in-house ‘Civic Academy' training, Management Development Programmes and a Mentorship programme for all employees
• 💷 Financial benefits. Access to our HMRC friendly Workplace Nursery scheme, plus enrolment to our workplace pension scheme
• 🚆 Sustainable travel. Season Ticket Loans & National Rail Cards, plus two salary sacrifice cycle to work schemes and cycling facilities at all our studios (showers, bike racks etc).