Geotechnical Design Engineer

What will you do?

• Define the requirements and scope of specific packages of design work and ensure closure of requirements through to commissioning and handover
• Champion Safe by Design with the design supply chain, to maximise the opportunity to improve the health, safety and wellbeing of all those engaged in and impacted by the project
• Operate within the processes and procedures of the civils programme
• Management and reporting of design delivery performance for time, cost, quality and other performance objectives as required from the supply chain, including the application of robust change management.
• Interface with all Internal civils programme functions to ensure project and statutory requirements are understood and implemented and recognised in the design
• Ensure that third party requirements and approvals required during the design stage are discharged appropriately
• Engage with other civils programme functions including commercial, procurement, project controls, construction delivery, H, S&W etc. to ensure that technical issues are suitably understood and recognised
• Hold regular collaborative meetings with the designers and wider teams to: review and share problems / issues, promote innovative thinking, to capture lessons learnt / best practice, to provide technical support and to ensure consistency of design
• Challenge the designers proposals with a view to de-risking technical solutions, to promote and facilitate emergence of value engineering solutions, leading to reductions of quantities, costs and optimisation of the construction programme
• Coordinate the inputs and interfaces of the Technical Assurance Team to ensure a Verified, Validated and Configured design

Dimensions

• Competent technical knowledge and experience of Geotechnical Design,
• Ability (and experience) to lead and manage multi-disciplinary/organisation design teams
• Ability to communicate and engage effectively at a range of levels: Management Team, client departments, design delivery teams, third party authorisers etc,
• In depth understanding of project scheduling, commercial arrangements and budget control
• Clear understanding of design and engineering interfaces with: construction teams, commissioning teams, supply chain and third parties

What are we looking for?

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Competent technical knowledge and experience of Geotechnical design,
• Ability (and experience) to lead and manage multi-disciplinary/organisation design teams
• Ability to communicate and engage effectively at a range of levels: Management Team, client departments, design delivery teams, third party authorisers etc,
• In depth understanding of project scheduling, commercial arrangements, and budget control
• Clear understanding of design and engineering interfaces with: construction teams, commissioning teams, supply chain and third parties

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• Degree Level qualified and/ or 5-10 years experience in this specific field

Desirable

• Professional accreditation and/ or Geotechnical sector specific MSc degree

What we will offer you?

The CWA is a single delivery organisation made of up of the client (Sizewell C) and three parent companies - Balfour Beatty, Bouygues and Laing O'Rourke - which offer industry leading packages including market leading salaries, generous annual leave entitlements, pension scheme and other flexible benefits.