Engineering Geologist / Geotechnical Engineer / Geo-Environmental Engineer

Personal Description

- This consultancy will suit someone who wants to get involved with all phases of a projects, desk studies, SI's and reports. The individual should be well organised, quality orientated and self motivating.

Job Description

- Mix of fieldwork and office undertaking a wide range of engineering duties on sites throughout the UK.
-Logging soils and rocks to relevant standards, trial pitting and supervision of several different types of drilling rig, project managing, working on Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental SI's
-The individual must be able to work well as an individual and as part of a larger engineering team.
-Training and mentoring will be provided to develop skills and experience, whilst you also be involved with mentoring Graduate Engineers.

Primary job roles will include

• Setting up and organising site investigation projects.
• Liaison with clients and site occupiers to organise fieldwork.
• Supervision of trial pitting, cable percussion drilling, rotary drilling, window sampling, inspection pits, dynamic probing and dynamic cone penetrometer testing.
• Desk studies
• Processing of field information and lab schedules.
• Factual and interpretive reporting.

Skills Required

This role is ideally aimed at individuals with some experience and the following skills would be preferred, although not essential:

• Excellent communication and organisational skills to liaise with clients, suppliers and other team members.
• Relevant UK based experience of setting up and managing investigation contracts in accordance with current best working practice and standards.
• Awareness and understanding of site H&S requirements.
• Ability to accurately log soil and rock in accordance with BS(Apply online only) and EC7
• Carrying out site sampling and in situ testing in accordance with best practice and current standards.
• Liaise with the testing lab and client to organise lab testing.
• Ability to write factual reports.
• Full and clean UK driving license is essential