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 the 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 behavior consistent with Civic’s Values and contributing to the progress of the organization.

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 as 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 competence in the use of MS Office products (including Excel and Word).
• Commercial awareness.
• Excellent teamwork 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 10:30 am-4:30 pm, 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 week’s 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.).