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Providing specialist engineering Hydrogeological support your remit in this role will include:
upporting excavation dewatering projects, tunnelling projects and assessments for large scale infrastructure projects
coping, supervising and interpretation of ground investigations to support engineering design
Report writing, interpreting groundwater to support underground structures design, groundwater management and hydro-geomechanical behaviour assessment.
hecking work and reviewing reports.
Promoting consideration of engineering hydrogeology to foster innovative project solutions.
Liaison with contractors, laboratories and regulators.
onours degree in earth sciences, or equivalent
A master’s degree or doctorate in hydrogeology, or equivalent professional experience
Chartered with the ICE or Geological Society (or similar)
Demonstratable track record of technical delivery of engineering hydrogeology projects with experience of dewatering for structures, groundwater control for tunnelling projects and hydrogeological assessments for large scale infrastructure projects
xperience of groundwater site characterisation, site investigation supervision and quantitative groundwater assessments
pecifying and supervising in situ testing including variable head tests, packer tests, pumping tests etc.
Long term groundwater monitoring – specifying and supervising the installation of groundwater monitoring instrumentation.
Laboratory testing – Hydrogeology, Hydrochemistry (including dating) laboratory testing.
Interpretation of in situ testing, monitoring data, and field and laboratory testing specifically understanding the limitations of the testing itself and uncertainties associated upscaling to construction scales.
Experience in using/supervising numerical modelling (such as SEEP/W and/or Groundwater Vistas and/or other similar software)
Groundwater management for near surface construction including but not limited to specifying, supervising and reporting on dewatering and settlement control schemes.
The role will require you to work away from your base office from time to time.
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