Senior Advisor – Geotechnics

Job Description

Highways England are recruiting 3 Senior Geotechnical Advisors. This is an excellent opportunity to apply your geotechnical expertise with Highways England, where you`ll be providing technical oversight working with a high level of autonomy. You`ll work with both internal and external parties and be closely involved during scheme development, ensuring the proposed geotechnical solutions offer the best technical and commercial value, whilst minimising disruption to the travelling public as much as possible.
The Senior Geotechnical Advisors will be based in Birmingham, Bedford, Manchester or Leeds.

Key Responsibilities:

– Provide impartial geotechnical advice that is accurate, practical and timely, so that area and national improvement and maintenance programmes can be met and corporate governance maintained.
– Contribute to the development and continual review of policy (in specific areas of the team`s work), ensuring effective communication of changes and developments within the team and to affected stakeholders.
– Manage the continual review of relevant standards i.e. within the Design Manual for Roads & Bridges (DMRB), BSI / CEN etc.
– Contribute to the effective management of the budget for technical consultancy and research – ensuring best value, alignment to Highways England objectives and the effective management of consultants.
– To ensure the continual development of self (and subsequently the team) in the field of geotechnics via discussion groups, workshops and training – ensuring a consistent understanding and provision of specialist advice.
– Assess safety performance to minimise risks, develop improvements and escalate issues with relevant authorities in a timely manner and carry out any tasks identified to the post in the Level 2 and relevant 2a Organisational Health and Safety RACI charts.

Essential Skills/Experience:

– Your eligibility for inclusion on the Register of Ground Engineering Professionals at Specialist level is desirable.
– Some experience in the application of geotechnical engineering to highway design, construction and maintenance will be expected.
– Experience of working with a range of suppliers and internal/external stakeholders in the delivery of project objectives and in developing effective working relationships shall be demonstrated.

All applications must be accompanied with a current CV which will be used to assess your suitability for the role. Please ensure all the skills, experience and qualifications are clearly demonstrated in your CV as explained in the body of the advert.
Please note that Highways England reserve the right to close the advert before the advertised closing date should a sufficient response have been received. Therefore, please complete your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

About Us
The Professional and Technical Solutions Directorate is responsible for supporting the operational delivery of Highways England`s road network by developing standards and guidance, as well as providing specialist technical advice to both internal and external parties. The Directorate also includes business-wide services for Health and Safety and Communications.

The Asset Development Division provides technical expertise for the design, construction and maintenance of the strategic road network and its associated structures/assets and manages the innovation programme.

The Geotechnics and Pavement Group is responsible for the technical governance of assets and the provision of effective policy and specialist technical advice, contributing to best practice on design, construction, management and maintenance, relating to road pavements and geotechnics.

Highways England is the new Government company that operates, maintains and improves England`s network of motorways and major A roads. This network is around 4,300 miles long and while it represents only 2 per cent of all roads in England by length it carries a third of all traffic by mileage as well as two thirds of heavy goods traffic, making it the backbone of the country.

We have around 3,500 staff based in seven offices around the country including a uniformed Traffic Officer Service in control centres and patrolling key areas of the network. Highways England is held to account by two bodies who act on behalf of the public – The Office of Rail and Roads monitor the performance of our highways and Transport Focus champion the needs of road users.