Geotechnical Engineer

Roughan & ODonovan (ROD) is looking to recruit a geotechnical engineer with two to six years relevant experience for a permanent position within our award-winning geotechnical team.

Job type: Permanent

Location: Dublin Cork and Leeds

Salary: Competitive

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity for you to join a dedicated and talented geotechnical team in delivering complex geotechnical design solutions including:

• rock/soil slope stabilisation works

• ground improvement schemes over soft ground

• observational monitoring of construction on peat cofferdam piling and bridge foundations

In addition to devising and overseeing ground investigation contracts and earthworks/foundations designs for buildings/bridges/retaining walls/flood defences and climate-resilient infrastructure you will provide specialist geotechnical inputs to our design teams.

You will work within a supportive multidisciplinary team environment and with the guidance of experienced mentors you will advance your technical knowledge and professional development.

Duties

• Identify preliminary geotechnical risks for projects undertake option selection analysis and specify investigations to address risks

• Support design teams with specialist geotechnical inputs in accordance with Eurocodes and other applicable design standards and guidance

• Analyse ground conditions and design parameters for shallow and deep foundations for buildings bridges linear infrastructure (roads greenways railways) and energy infrastructure etc.

• Interact with colleagues in our transportation and environmental teams to improve routes drainage requirements flood defences and coastal protection works

• Assess borrow and quarry materials for reuse as embankment fill drainage concrete and pavement aggregates for mass haul analysis

• Pavement foundation design in accordance with TII/UK DMRB

• Assess and design soil improvement techniques for soft ground and peatlands for sustainable and innovative designs

• Attend and supervise investigations earthworks and foundations on site

Requirements

• Degree in civil engineering/engineering geology (Level 8 in the National Framework of Qualifications or equivalent)

• Knowledge of construction techniques for piles and retaining walls

• Knowledge of soft ground techniques stability and soil reinforcement methods of particular interest

• Knowledge of earthworks soil improvement or deep foundations for linear infrastructure

• Experience of geotechnical investigation contracts

• Project management skills and experience

• Risk management and design skills

• Ability to engage as a team member in a busy work environment

• Good report writing MS Word MS Excel and CAD/BIMskills

• Flexibility

• Fluency/high degree of proficiency in spoken and written English

Desirable

• Postgraduate qualification in geotechnical engineering or related field. For example MSc PhD or a final-year thesis on a geotechnical topic

• Membership of a recognised professional body in the geotechnical field in UK/Ireland

• Knowledge of earthworks material specifications aggregates and pavement design

• Experience of Irish/UK glacial till soils including major road/rail projects

• Construction experience in earthworks soil improvement and deep foundations

• Experience of flood protection projects or marine environments

• Knowledge of ground remediation/potentially contaminated materials

• Full driving licence

About Roughan & ODonovan

Roughan and ODonovan (ROD) is a leading civil environmental and structural engineering consultancy. An independently owned firm we employ a multidisciplinary team of over 260 people of 20 different nationalities in our Dublin Cork and Leeds offices.

Our people are the heart of our business and we invest heavily in their personal and professional development through all stages of career development. We are an Engineers Ireland CPD Accredited Employer and operate an Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) training scheme. We have developed comprehensive student placement internship graduate and chartership support programmes to help our team reach their full potential as individuals and as engineers.

We offer a range of benefits designed to help our people thrive including wellness initiatives flexible working arrangements and support during important life events.

Current and recent projects include:

• A5 Western Transport Corridor: Section 3

• Cork Area Commuter Rail Phase Two

• Waterford City Public Infrastructure Project

• DART West

• Narrow Water Bridge

• Renfrew Bridge

• Herring Bridge Great Yarmouth UK

• A6 Dungiven to Drumahoe Dualling scheme

• Georges Dock Bridge Dublin

• N5 Ballaghaderreen to Scramoge Road

• N56 Letterilly to Kilraine Road

• Alexandra Road West

• Liffey Tolka Project

• TII Peatland Rehabilitation Research

How to apply

• Address your cover letter to Human Resources

• Apply by clicking the link: & ODonovan is an equal opportunity employer.

  Roughan & ODonovan will retain for at least one year all records arising through the recruitment process for compliance purposes in line with the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015.

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