What will you be doing?

  Provide specialist skills, integrity and knowledge in key areas of project or discipline engineering, including design codes, legislative requirements and current good engineering practice.

• Understands clients' needs; identifies and addresses design parameters and problems; develops and implements solutions.

• Act as technical expert in all aspects of offshore geotechnical engineering design and installation.

• Manage interfaces within a project structure, including other disciplines, drawing office, document control, project management, client and suppliers.
• Participlate in the conceptual studies.
• Undertake geotechnical engineering calculations and design reports for subsea foundation design, pipeline initiation anchorages and pipeline/soil interaction.
• Understand how trenching equipment works and its uses and limitations.
• Check and approval of technical documentation, accepting personal responsibility for its adequacy.
• Understand and manage geotechnical risk.
• Ensures that specifications and norms related to the project are respected.
• Participates actively to engineers training and development.
• Proposes innovative solutions allowing cost & risks reduction.
• Evaluate, organize, and prioritize work for self and others.

What experience would we like you to have?

• Professional qualifications – Degree qualified ideally in Civil/Structural Engineering with geotechnical expertise. (Demonstrable experience in a similar role will also be considered).
• Relevant engineering experience (10+ years) in all aspects of offshore geotechnical engineering design and installation.
• Awareness of marine classification and local legislation (Essential).
• Demonstrable ability to work within time/budget constraints.
• Presents self in a professional manner appropriate to the role.
• Produces work of presentable quality.
• Ability to prioritize and organize work.
• Use and reference appropriate Codes and Standards associated with geotechnical engineering in the offshore industry, i.e. ISO codes, DNV, API.
• Sound Knowledge of foundation FEA analysis software, i.e. PLAXIS (Essential) or similar software.
• Understand and manage geotechnical and geohazards risks.
• Professional Engineer (PE) or ability to obtain PE in 6 months.