AddressEngineering Geology Lead
Country: United Kingdom
Position Location: Croydon, UK / Birmingham, UK / Reading, UK
Contract Type: Permanent
Work Pattern: Full Time
Sector: Transport
Discipline: Geotechnical and tunnelling
Job Ref: 1278
Recruiter Contact: Matthew Rayburn
Mott MacDonald
We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.
A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.
We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.
Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.
About the business unit
We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. From preparing the business case and advising on related issues - such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation - to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.
We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. From preparing the business case and advising on related issues - such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation - to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.
Overview of role
As Engineering Geology Lead in our successful Foundations and Geotechnics team, you will have the opportunity to shape the future technical direction and delivery of our Engineering Geology teams and work with a range of public and private sector clients on key and major projects. You will be involved in overseeing our digital strategies, ensuring our engineering geologists remain at the forefront of technology and managing our professional excellence activities. You’ll also deliver various ground engineering projects and provide technical leadership through leading the Engineering Geology team and managing their design work. You’ll also support larger projects acting as client liaison and contributing to risk assessments, employing sustainability and undertaking budgeting and cost control.
As Engineering Geology Lead in our successful Foundations and Geotechnics team, you will have the opportunity to shape the future technical direction and delivery of our Engineering Geology teams and work with a range of public and private sector clients on key and major projects. You will be involved in overseeing our digital strategies, ensuring our engineering geologists remain at the forefront of technology and managing our professional excellence activities. You’ll also deliver various ground engineering projects and provide technical leadership through leading the Engineering Geology team and managing their design work. You’ll also support larger projects acting as client liaison and contributing to risk assessments, employing sustainability and undertaking budgeting and cost control.
Your responsibilities will include the following:
- Setting the long-term strategy for our Engineering Geology team
- Oversight of our Engineering Geology digital capabilities
- Coordination of Engineering Geology with geotechnical and other practice initiatives
- Input into our graduate accelerator programme initiative.
- Design foundations and substructures associated with large underground spaces such as deep basements and shafts, metro boxes, earthworks and slope stability
- Management and delivery of Ground Investigation (scope, specifications, supervision, GIRs, GBRs etc)
- Travel to project sites when necessary for project delivery and client liaison meetings
- Managing medium to large single and multi-disciplinary design teams
Candidate specification
As Engineering Geology Lead, you are able to direct and implement strategy for Engineering Geology. You have a track record for delivering multiple concurrent projects or one large project on time and within budget. You’ve provided geotechnical parameters for various geotechnical and foundation solutions and have previously worked on major projects. You have a thorough knowledge of Eurocodes and are familiar with many Engineering Geology standards. You have strong interpersonal skills and are able to liaise with various clients and build professional relationships. You are comfortable with your technical expertise in the ground engineering sector and have gained various project management skills throughout your career as well as acted in a senior technical lead capability on numerous projects. You’re an effective communicator and are able to collaborate with all levels of staff and clients. In addition to this, you are a relationship builder and understand the dynamics of working with a team as well as working autonomously. You are able to prioritise the needs of the Client to deliver high quality design to meet their needs.
You will also be able to demonstrate the following:
- Masters or PhD degree in geology or geotechnical engineering with emphasis on Engineering Geology
- Relevant Engineering Geology experience with experience in project delivery
- Chartered Geologist with the Geological Society or equivalent
- Experiencing of managing medium to large teams of engineering geologists
- Experience of delivering Ground Investigations, GIRs and GBRs
- Experience guiding and nurturing a team of Engineering Geologists in their technical development
- Has mentored early career professionals in achieving chartership through the Geological Society
- Prepared to travel nationally and internationally as needed for any project
Equality, diversity, and inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.
Accessibility
We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.
Agile working
Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.
We offer some fantastic benefits including:
Health and wellbeing
- Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
- Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
- Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
- A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
- Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
Financial wellbeing
- We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
- Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
- Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
- Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
- As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
Lifestyle
- A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
- Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
- Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
Enhanced family and carers leave
- Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
- Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
- Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
Learning and development
- Primary annual professional institution subscription.
- A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
Networks, communities, and social outcomes
- Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
- Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.
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