Location
Birmingham

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. With over 34,000 people across more than 30 countries, we are dedicated to improving quality of life. As a Senior Geotechnical Engineer, you will play a key role in delivering some of the UK’s most exciting and challenging infrastructure projects. You will work alongside a talented team contributing to geotechnical design, ground investigations, and technical reporting. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to develop your expertise, collaborate with leading professionals, and make a positive impact on the built and natural environment.

Role Accountabilities
- Support the development and implementation of engineering solutions
- Independently drive routine and non-routine projects with technical guidance
- Manage resources across single or multiple project deliveries
- Participate in resolving technical issues
- Collaborate with other design disciplines to ensure overall design integrity
- Provide technical input and support to project teams, championing quality and innovation
- Ensure compliance of deliverables including drawings, reports, specifications, and studies with project requirements
- Manage commercial aspects of projects including contract, invoicing, debt management, and client relations
- Build relationships and liaise with Project Directors, Managers, and Clients
- Check geotechnical calculations, drawings, specifications, reports, and other documentation produced by junior engineers in line with company, client, national standards, and codes of practice
- Assist in personal and team development
- Comply with relevant Health & Safety regulations and promote a culture of awareness within the team
- Perform other duties as required by line manager and Team Leader

Experience
- BEng in Civil Engineering with a geotechnical bias; or BSc/BEng in Geoscience related degree
- MSc / MEng in Geotechnical Engineering or similar
- Chartered Engineer or imminently due to sit Professional Review
- Well-rounded geotechnical design experience including shallow and deep foundations, retaining walls, and slope stability assessments
- Desirable experience in Finite Element Analysis (e.g. Plaxis)
- Post-graduate experience in project planning, supervision, and design
- Earthworks design, specification, and implementation
- Experience in ground investigation design and implementation
- Proficient in routine geotechnical design software such as Oasys suite (PDISP, XDISP, GRETA, PILE, FREW, ALP), WALLAP, REPUTE, and SlopeW
- Experience with geotechnical data management applications such as OpenGround (required) or Leapfrog (desirable)
- Knowledge of commercial aspects of projects including contract and client management

About You
- Strong written communication skills with ability to check technical reports and prepare accurate deliverables
- Good verbal communication and motivational skills
- Ability to work within large multi-disciplinary engineering teams
- Good motivational and people management skills with ability to influence staff and clients on technical issues
- Team player, self-starter, and problem solver with a “Can-do” attitude
- Flexible to travel within the UK
- Full and valid driving licence

Qualifications
- Relevant engineering degrees as stated above
- Chartered Engineer status or imminent Professional Review