Job ID: 42158Reference: 300015791786876Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomDepartment: Geotechnical Design & EngineeringBusiness Unit: AUK UKWork Type: HybridDate Posted: 2026-08-17Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. As a Senior Geotechnical Engineer at Arcadis, you will play a key role in delivering some of the UK's most exciting and challenging infrastructure projects. Responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to: Supporting the development and implementation of engineering solutions. Independently drive routine projects and non-routine projects with technical guidance. Management of resources in single or multiple project deliveries. Providing technical input and support to project teams and championing quality and innovation. Ensuring compliance of produced deliverables, including drawings, reports, specifications and studies with project requirements. Experience in commercial aspects of projects (contract, invoicing, debt management, client management etc) relating to projects for which responsible. Building relationships and liaising with the Project Director or Manager and the Client. Checking of geotechnical calculations, drawings, specifications, reports and other project documentation produced by junior engineers in line with company and client requirements as well as national standards and codes of practice. Qualifications & Experience: BEng in Civil Engineering with a geotechnical bias; or BSc/BEng in Geoscience related degreeMSc / MEng in Geotechnical Engineering or similarChartered Engineer or imminently due to sit Professional Review. Well-rounded geotechnical design including foundations (shallow and deep foundations ), retaining walls and slope stability assessments. Desirable (but not required) experience in Finite Element Analysis (e.g. Growing (post-graduate) experience in most aspects of projects, including planning, supervising and designing, together with examples of applying standards and technical knowledge in projects. Earthworks design, specification and implementation. Experience in ground investigation design and implementation. Experience in the use of routine geotechnical data management applications such as OpenGround (required) or Leapfrog (desirable).Ability to work within large multi-disciplinary engineering teams. Knowledge and experience of commercial aspects of projects. Flexible to travel in UK.Full and valid driving licence. You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & BelongingWe want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. LI-MV3 #LI-Hybrid
Senior Geotechnical Engineer/senior Engineering in Birmingham employer: Arcadis
Arcadis UK is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, where sustainability and resilience are at the forefront of our projects. Employees benefit from continuous professional development opportunities, a supportive environment, and the chance to work on impactful projects in the water and energy sectors. Located in the UK, we offer a dynamic workplace that values diversity and encourages creative solutions to complex engineering challenges.
