Principal Geotechnical Engineer (PERMANENT)
Our client is an advanced technological and engineering platform for the design, construction and operation of safe and sustainable complex infrastructure and plants.
We are currently looking for a Principal Geotechnical Engineer to join the team in London working on the design of Offshore Wind Foundations.
Role includes:
• Review geotechnical data and define soil strength parameters for (shallow and deep) foundation analysis and design/ installation analysis.
• Development of pile foundation design which may include pile for steel jacket structures, monopile for wind turbine generators, suction caissons, mud-mat design, and gravity base structures.
• Development of analytical models both linear and non-linear, for foundation axial and lateral load/deflection response and pile-soil interaction analysis, aimed for foundation and structure interaction analysis.
• Derivation of soil resistance to driving and pile driveability analysis, pile stick-up analysis, pile driving fatigue, pile self-weight penetration, pile-run, pile set-up, pile tip buckling.
• Derivation of installation requirements for suction caissons.
• Application of Finite Element Analysis in geotechnical design
Ideal candidate will have:
▪ BEng or Meng in Civil Engineering / Geotechnical Engineering
Software:
• MS Excel and hand calculations.
• GRLWEAP
• SPLICE
• PLAXIS
This role is PERMANAENT/STAFF
Hybrid Role with 3 days in office
£Negotiable
