Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

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 by solving the world’s most complex challenges. As a Senior Geotechnical Engineer at Arcadis, 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
Responsibilities include supporting the development and implementation of engineering solutions, independently driving routine and non-routine projects with technical guidance, managing resources across single or multiple projects, and resolving technical issues. You will collaborate with other design disciplines to ensure overall design integrity, provide technical input and support to project teams, and champion quality and innovation. Ensuring compliance of deliverables such as drawings, reports, specifications, and studies with project requirements is essential. You will also be involved in commercial aspects of projects including contract management, invoicing, debt management, and client liaison. Checking geotechnical calculations, drawings, specifications, and reports produced by junior engineers in line with company, client, and national standards is a key part of the role. Additionally, you will assist in developing yourself and other team members, promote health and safety awareness, and perform other duties as required by your 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 foundations (shallow and deep), retaining walls, and slope stability assessments
- Desirable experience in Finite Element Analysis (e.g. Plaxis)
- Growing post-graduate experience in project planning, supervision, and design, applying standards and technical knowledge
- Earthworks design, specification, and implementation
- Experience in ground investigation design and implementation
- Proficiency with 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, invoicing, debt management, and client management

About You
- Strong written communication skills with ability to check significant technical report elements
- Ability to prepare and check accurate deliverables
- Good verbal communication and motivational skills
- Motivational and people management skills with ability to influence staff and clients on technical issues
- Ability to work effectively within large multi-disciplinary engineering teams
- 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 degree qualifications as above
- Chartered Engineer status or imminent Professional Review