Technical Director - Geotechnical Engineering (Offshore Wind and Renewables) 1 1

Geotechnical Design Lead – Offshore Wind #Challenge Accepted
London/Glasgow
Permanent Office/Home Hybrid Working

Do you want to lead the strategy for sustainable infrastructure? Can you continue our growth? Are you experienced in offshore project delivery? Then, shape a sustainable and liveable world with us!

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow.

We are looking for a Geotechnical Design Specialist to support our UK offshore. You’ll join a dynamic team of specialists and project managers working across the renewable value chain, including market advisory and feasibility, design, and construction advisory. With a focus on innovation, we have a track record for delivering solutions even under the most demanding conditions – deep waters, on challenging soil, and in regions with high seismic activity.
On a day-to-day basis, you'll be responsible for:

• 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 our 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.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve. Furthermore, you'll:

• Be a recognised specialist in the field of offshore wind geotechnical engineering
• Have demonstrable experience as a geotechnical design lead on offshore wind foundation projects
• Hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree or PhD in Geotechnical or Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline
• Have experience with soil laboratory and field testing, interpretation of geotechnical data and knowledge on data science and regression of geotechnical data.
• Knowledge in computational geomechanics, FE analysis and constitutive modelling.
• Competencies within programming languages e.g., Python, Matlab, or C++ is an advantage.
• Have previous experience of delivering projects to time, cost quality standards across all stages of project lifecycle
• Have good communication skills in English (oral and written)