Geotechnical Discipline Lead in Milton Keynes

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Job Description

• Functionally responsible for leading the geotechnical, geology and I&M technical teams across the programme.
• Provide specialist technical expertise to support each project within the programme, leading technical resolution to significant geotechnical challenges with a “best-for-project” mentality, accounting for contract requirements, cost, schedule, risk, etc.
• Drive progressive technical assurance of construction-stage technical closeout of items such as the ground risk registers, geotechnical feedback reports and monitoring reports, ensuring technical quality is in accordance with client expectations.
• Ensure timely delivery of construction-stage technical documentation from design consultants to enable handover in accordance with schedule needs and key dates.
• Ownership of programme-wide standard details and contract requirements (technical) within the area of responsibility.
• In collaboration with the projects’ technical leads, ensure the timely delivery of remaining geotechnical designs.
• Lead the team in effectively managing relevant commercial and contractual communications (TQs, EWs, EIs, CEs, etc.) associated with area of responsibility with suppliers and client.
• Relationship owner and focal point for the client’s geotechnical subject matter experts to enable a productive and collaborative working relationship within the discipline.
• Lead by example and promote good practice relating to geotechnical, geology and I&M, sharing learning across the programme.

Key Skills And Qualifications

• Degree qualified and experienced in technical earthworks design and construction support roles.
• Chartered (e.g. CEng MICE) professional qualification desired.
• Excellent knowledge of relevant earthworks design standards and its applicability for the design.
• Ability to lead and manage a team with competing priorities with a focus on what is ‘best for project’.
• Management of commercial/contractual aspects of projects with suppliers and client.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience of influencing and negotiating with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders and the ability to extract key points and communicate this to others.

Key relationships Include: Project Technical Leads, Earthworks Delivery Teams, Design Consultants and Client Subject Matter Experts.

Please note that this job description does not represent a comprehensive list of activities and employees may be requested to undertake other reasonable duties.

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