Role Overview :
The Principal Geotechnical Engineer leads delivery of complex geotechnical scopes across building and infrastructure projects. The role carries technical authority over geotechnical design decisions, mentors a team of engineers, and serves as the primary geotechnical interface with clients, lead consultants, and specialist contractors.
Key Responsibilities :
Specifications Develop specifications for geotechnical investigation, topographic, geophysical, and remote sensing surveys. Prepare construction specifications covering earthworks, piling, embedded walls and shoring, earth retaining structures (MSE, gabion, nailed walls), ground improvement, slope stabilization, tie-back anchors, rock bolts, and dewatering systems. Prepare Instrumentation & Monitoring specifications including inclinometers, piezometers, and settlement plates.
Technical Writing & Reports Prepare Geotechnical Interpretative Reports, Geotechnical Design Reports and Desk Study Reports. Develop geotechnical chapters within structural design reports. Developing pile load test interpretation reports, and contribute to technical proposals for tendering purposes.
Review & Checking Review method statements against issued specifications, borehole logs, and laboratory testing programs. Review final GIR/GFR reports from soil laboratories and I&M data against trigger levels during construction. Review specialist contractor submissions covering shoring, dewatering design, piling, ground improvement, rock stabilization, and retaining wall designs. Conduct in-house QA/QC and external peer reviews of geotechnical deliverables.
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Software Proficiency :
Leadership & Management:
Lead and mentor a small team of senior and junior engineers across concurrent projects. Serve as technical signatory for geotechnical deliverables and manage workstream scope, program, and fees. Attend and lead meetings with clients, lead consultants, sub-consultants, and contractors. Coordinate across structural, civil, and environmental disciplines on multidisciplinary projects. Contribute to business development, client relationship management, and technical proposal preparation. Represent the firm in technical presentations, design workshops, and value engineering sessions.
Qualifications & Requirements :
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About 10Design Collective 10Design is a global collective of expert practices operating across architecture, urbanism and design, brought together within the Egis Group. Each practice retains its own identity, culture and market presence, while benefiting from shared platforms, intelligence and collective scale. Individually, our practices deliver people-focused, creative and responsible design. Together, as 10N, we multiply that impact. By connecting expertise across regions and disciplines, we are better positioned to address the defining challenges of our time, including climate change, rapid urbanisation and the responsible use of resources. The 10Design model is founded on enablement rather than centralisation. Shared services and leadership roles exist to strengthen practices, support collaboration and unlock value across the Collective, while respecting local autonomy and brand equity. Must have the right to work in the UK