Principal Geotechnical Advisor

3 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom National Highways Full time

Your new role

As a Principal Geotechnical Advisor, you will have a great opportunity to work in a national team that is responsible for providing geotechnics policy, standards, assurance, and advice in support of the strategic road network. This will allow you to bringyour geotechnical knowledge to bear on a major infrastructure asset which stretches across England and includes technically challenging civil engineering works of all scales.

You will have responsibility for leading the geotechnical advice and assurance function within an area to support the development, renewal, and maintenance of National Highways assets. You will work with delivery colleagues and suppliers to ensure safe,efficient, sustainable, and best value solutions are implemented to meet the needs of our customers. In this role, you will also lead the technical support of our geotechnical asset management system (GDMS) to deliver and maintain high quality service alignedto the strategic aims of National Highways. You will also manage the technical consultancy and research portfolio for the geotechnics team within the Innovation Programme.

The Geotechnics Team provides input to national / international standards development, supports industrial research and innovation projects and cross organisation technical groups to facilitate knowledge transfer. Through these activities you will have theopportunity to contribute expertise to generate improvement across the ground engineering industry.

This role will require you to develop collaborative relationships with internal colleagues and external stakeholders, requiring occasional travel.

This is a great opportunity to develop your geotechnical career, working with industry leading experts within National Highways who are dedicated to sustainable delivery, quality, safety and making a meaningful contribution to our customers.

What you’ll be leading on

Provide geotechnical technical assurance to published standards and advice within your allocated National Highways Area/Region, working with Operations and Major Projects Directorates and suppliers. Actively engage with these stakeholders to share best practiceand understand their business needs / identify key areas for improvement.
Act as a source of geotechnical expertise to support the development of asset related policies and operating procedures within the National Highways Asset Management Strategy.
Own the development and maintenance of the Geotechnical content within allocated sections of the Design Manual for Roads & Bridges (DMRB) and the Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works (MCHW).
Support the Departure from Standards process for geotechnical proposals so we can ensure innovative, non-compliant, solutions are appropriately assessed.
Lead the technical support for our geotechnical management system (GDMS) to deliver and maintain high quality information, in accordance with Asset Information Principles and aligned to the strategic aims of National Highways.
Lead and manage the Geotechnics technical consultancy and research portfolio within the Innovation Programme - ensuring best value, alignment to company strategy and objectives and the effective management of consultants and budgets.
Ensure that the team remains at the forefront of best practice in the UK and beyond, including awareness of future challenges and direction of travel (for example, the impact that climate change will have on geotechnical asset performance). As necessary, thiswill involve representing National Highways at external technical steering groups, committees, workshops and seminars, liaison with research programmes, and horizon scanning activities.
To be successful

You will be qualified to Chartered level and be eligible for inclusion, or already included, on the Register of Ground Engineering Professionals (RoGEP) at Adviser level.
Proven experience in these technical disciplines:
Geotechnical design and construction of both major infrastructure and renewal projects.
Geotechnical risk and the management of geotechnical assets.
Principles of asset management and development of asset related policy and procedures.
Experience of analysing technical information to develop appropriate solutions.
Experience of working on transformation projects and delivering business change.
Experience of delivering projects using recognised project management methods to ensure objectives are met.
Experience of working with a range of suppliers and stakeholders and developing effective working relationships, including strong networking and communication skills to achieve results.
A bit about us

The Safety, Engineering and Standards (SES) directorate at National Highways is an exciting place to work. You’ll have opportunities to lead new research and innovation as we develop geotechnical policy and standards, assure capital programmes, and providebest practice technical advice. Building in every opportunity to ensure that our customers and road workers get home safe and well every day while travelling or working on our road network.

About Us
Why you should join us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to dobetter and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

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