Senior Geotechnical Engineer

at  Sweco UK

ABOUT THE @ONE ALLIANCE

The Anglian Water @one Alliance is a totally collaborative organisation made up of nine partner companies (Anglian Water, SWECO, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, and Skanska) and an extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.
We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we’ve ever delivered before. We’ll be embarking on a new kind of project delivery focusing on nature-based solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes.
We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We’re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment built for career progression.
With such an exciting portfolio of projects planned for AMP8 to keep the water flowing across the region, our ability to manage our work and outperform against our customer’s expectations will come under greater scrutiny.
We need aspiring driven talent to help us achieve our ambitious targets, are you ready to join us as we prepare to deliver the most creative and innovative AMP we have ever seen?

ABOUT SWECO

Transforming society together, we’re planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.
Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.
We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.
To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work/ life balance, we are asking our employees to have office or site presence on an average of three days a week.
With such an exciting portfolio of projects planned for AMP8 to keep the water flowing across the region, our ability to manage our work and outperform against our customer’s expectations will come under greater scrutiny. To help us achieve success we are seeking a Senior Geotechnical Engineer.
What will you be doing as our new Senior Geotechnical Engineer?
We’ll look to you to provide sector-level leadership and strategic direction and lead the geotechnical team within the alliance. Working on a diver programme of water recycling and infrastructure projects.
Key Responsibilities:

Discipline Management

• Represent the @one Alliance as a leader in geotechnical engineering.
• Ensure quality in geotechnical design by developing and implementing robust procedures, standards, and guidance to achieve a “right first time” approach.
• Collaborate with Design Managers and Civil Leads to allocate skilled resources to projects, ensuring competency and excellence from concept to detailed design.
• Oversee and assess the performance of suppliers and subcontractors’ designs.
• Ensure that geotechnical design aligns with health and safety standards, environmental considerations, procurement needs, and operational requirements.

Project Delivery

• Partner with Principal Civil Engineers and project teams to achieve portfolio outcomes.
• Ensure affordability by identifying and delivering value-driven opportunities.
• Support discipline engineers to adopt appropriate methods and deliver designs on time and to the highest quality.
• Lead sustainability efforts by producing designs that enhance environmental and social outcomes.
• Contribute to risk, opportunities, and value management by challenging designs to achieve the best outcomes.

Health & Safety

• Champion excellence in health, safety, and welfare for your discipline, ensuring compliance with CDM regulations.
• Identify and address health, safety, and welfare concerns within your team.
• Promote safe design practices and ensure all off-site activities are appropriately planned and risk assessed.

People & Team Development

• Provide visible leadership to the geotechnical team, fostering engagement through regular discipline meetings and initiatives.
• Manage and mentor team members, supporting their professional development and career progression.
• Identify and address competency gaps within the team, supporting recruitment and the use of global resources where needed.

Transformation & Innovation

• Inspire a culture of experimentation, innovation, and continuous improvement within the geotechnical discipline.
• Drive carbon reduction and the sustainable use of natural capital in designs.
• Lead the adoption of advanced techniques and technologies.
• Collaborate with industry bodies and clients to challenge standards and drive industry-wide improvement.

About You:
To be successful in this position you will have proven leadership in Geotechnical engineering with experience in large-scale, multidisciplinary projects. You’ll hold a civil engineering or geology degree (or equivalent experience). Be committed to delivering safe, sustainable, and innovative engineering solutions, and possess strong interpersonal skills to lead, mentor, and inspire a diverse team.
If you are seasoned geotechnical engineer with a passion for leadership, innovation, and sustainability and thrive in a collaborative environment, driving excellence in engineering design and project delivery apply today and join the @one Alliance as our Senior Geotechnical Engineer, where you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of geotechnical engineering for Anglian Water and beyond.

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