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Job Description
Want to work with the most sought-after minds and most-talked about projects? Your skills and experience in geotechnical engineering might just make you our new Associate Director.
This role will see you working amongst a diverse and talented team to design innovative and efficient ground engineering solutions for projects across a variety of sectors and scales - including sports stadia, masterplans, bridges, foundation reuse projects, and more.
Your next role:
- Providing high-quality geotechnical support to our clients in the development of bespoke, sustainable, structural engineering and infrastructure projects in the UK and overseas.
- Technical input into deliverables including specifications, design reports, and geotechnical interpretation.
- Analysis including soil structure interaction, geotechnical numerical modelling, geotechnical substructure, and earthworks design
- Mentoring and technical support for colleagues.
- Technical input to derive innovative and sustainable solutions to ground related challenges.
- Liaise with clients and maintain our strong, unique work culture within the industry.
- Collaboration with colleagues from other disciplines to provide coordinated design solutions.
- Leading and managing project discipline input
Your skills and experience:
- Significant geotechnical design experience across a range of projects typologies.
- Ability to develop pragmatic, cost effective and sustainable solutions
- Experience delivering projects with a strong technical focus including geotechnical interpretation and design.
- Experience of rock engineering including slope stability assessment and tunnelling/underground construction.
- Appetite to lead and develop design capabilities.
- Educated to Masters degree level in relevant disciplines (e.g. Civil and/or Geotechnical Engineering).
- Professionally registered with a relevant institution - e.g. ICE.
What we offer you:
- Hybrid working arrangements.
- Attractive salary and benefits package including life assurance, income protection and private medical cover.
- Car allowance (10% of basic salary)
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
- Generous company pension scheme.
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies
- 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month
- A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
- A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring
- An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.
We value flexible working and welcome applications from those who are seeking this in their careers. We wish to create a team that is fully inclusive, and welcome applications from those who are seeking flexible or part-time working. If you have any specific requirements that would enable you to take this role, we would be keen to explore this with you. Ready for something a little less ordinary? Apply now to start your career journey with us. #LI-JN1 #LI-Hybrid
A place for everyone
Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive. We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact [email protected] so we can work with you to support you throughout your application. Type of contractPermanentGradeAssociate DirectorArea of ExpertiseBuilding StructuresRegionUKOffice / Project LocationBathRef No7996ApplyShare
Important information:
Please note Buro Happold will never ask for payment to register or apply for a role.Buro Happold actively promotes inclusion across the practice to enable every individual to reach their full potential. Read our Equal employment opportunity statement to find out more.Do you work for a recruitment agency? Read our Recruitment agency policy