Engineering Hydrogeologist Uk Wide - #1712812

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Your impact

Playing a key part in our Water Catchment Management & Maritime capability team in the in the UK, You will be involved in the Technical delivery of a wide scope of Geological and Hydro Geological Projects. As part of a project focussed multi disciplined team you will also provide functional expertise to water resource management and environmental impact assessments.

About The Opportunity

In this newly created role your remit will include

• Supporting excavation dewatering projects, tunnelling projects and assessments for large scale infrastructure projects
• Scoping, supervising and interpretation of ground investigations to support engineering design
• Producing and Interpreting groundwater reports to support underground structures design, groundwater management and hydro-geomechanical behaviour assessment.
• Working in collaborative multidisciplinary teams.
• Promoting the consideration of engineering hydrogeology to foster innovative project solutions.
• Liaison with contractors, laboratories and regulators.
  
  
  

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Here's what you'll need

We would be delighted to hear from candidates with a blend of the following;

• Honours degree in earth sciences, or equivalent
• Chartered with the ICE or Geological Society (or similar)
• Demonstratable track record of technical delivery of engineering hydrogeology projects.
• Experience of groundwater site characterisation, site investigation supervision and quantitative groundwater assessments
• Exposure to supervising in situ testing including variable head tests, packer tests, pumping tests etc.
• Experience in specifying and supervising the installation of groundwater monitoring instrumentation.
• A sound knowledge of numerical modelling (such as SEEP/W and/or Groundwater Vistas and/or other similar software)
  
  
  

The role will require you to work away from your base office from time to time.

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