Location
Glasgow with Permanent Office/Home Hybrid Working

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Are you ready to lead the strategy for sustainable infrastructure and drive growth in offshore wind and renewables? Join us as a Geotechnical Design Lead supporting UK offshore projects within a dynamic team of specialists and project managers. You will work across the renewable value chain including market advisory, feasibility, design, and construction advisory. Our focus on innovation has enabled us to deliver solutions in challenging conditions such as deep waters, difficult soils, and high seismic activity regions.

On a day-to-day basis, you will:
- Lead the geotechnical discipline on foundation design projects
- Lead geotechnical design analyses and engineering support for offshore wind projects
- Participate in geotechnical interpretation, assessment, and design activities
- Lead and perform advanced numerical modelling and analyses using tools such as PLAXIS
- Act as discipline lead towards customers
- Develop, maintain, and improve engineering tools, scripts, and automated workflows using Python, MATLAB or similar technologies
- Contribute to the application of automation, AI, and digital engineering within geotechnical processes
- Support efficient management, analysis, and visualisation of geotechnical data
- Collaborate with geotechnical, structural, and digital specialists across projects and disciplines
- Lead technical development initiatives and knowledge sharing within the Offshore Geotechnics team

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world by applying knowledge, curiosity, and courage to create the solutions needed today for a better tomorrow. We embed environmental management, social responsibility, and good governance into our business practices and value diversity, development, and a culture of belonging and fun.

Experience
- Recognised specialist in offshore wind geotechnical engineering
- Demonstrable experience as a geotechnical design lead on offshore wind foundation projects
- Experience delivering projects to time, cost, and quality standards across all stages of the project lifecycle
- Experience with soil laboratory and field testing, interpretation of geotechnical data, and knowledge of data science and regression of geotechnical data
- Knowledge in computational geomechanics, finite element analysis, and constitutive modelling

About you
- Eager to collaborate respectfully with colleagues, partners, and customers
- Open to exploring new insights and continuous improvement
- Good communication skills in English (oral and written)

Qualifications
- Bachelor’s, Master’s degree or PhD in Geotechnical, Civil Engineering or related engineering discipline
- Competencies in programming languages such as Python, MATLAB, or C++ are advantageous