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Coffey Geotechnics Limited, a Tetra Tech Company delivers technical excellence to manage complex risks for our clients – providing value throughout the asset lifecycle in the transport and property infrastructure, and energy and resources sectors.
We provide all aspects of engineering consultancy services for clients both in the UK and across the globe with access to thousands of specialists worldwide. Coffey and Tetra Tech have been relied on for more than five decades to successfully deliver programmes in partnership with our clients to successfully deliver their programmes in partnership with clients, major contractors and other professional service providers.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do! They help our clients succeed, our business prosper and the communities we work in thrive. We need the very best people to maintain our position as a market leader. This includes those taking their first steps onto the career ladder – after all you are the future of our industry and if you’ve got ideas and ambition, we want to hear from you!
If you join Coffey Geotechnics Limited as a Graduate not only will you get to work on exciting, ground-breaking projects from day 1, you will also be given support to grow in your chosen discipline as well as training to develop the core skills needed to succeed in the corporate world.
The Role
We have opportunities for graduate civil / geotechnical engineers and engineering geologists to join our 50-strong team of specialists providing geotechnical and engineering geological consultancy services based in Harrogate, Manchester and Reading (UK).
The core of our business is ground interpretation, geotechnical assessment and design for infrastructure projects (road and rail), buildings, and land developments. Our ground engineers design foundations, soil and rock slopes, retaining structures, ground improvement, marine and near-shore structures, deep basements and temporary works. We are at the forefront of delivering design and feasibility solutions for geotechnical, engineering geology, mining & mineral processing and geo-environmental projects.
You will be exposed to a range of engineering problems and have opportunities to gain practical responsibility from the outset. Working across teams of ground engineering specialists, you will plan and undertake office and site-based work, complete investigations, assessments and interpretative reports, meet clients, and undertake detailed design and construction supervision on our broad range of geotechnical engineering and engineering geology projects.
We offer an ICE-accredited graduate training agreement and mentoring and support towards chartership through both the ICE and the Geological Society of London.
Qualifications/Skills
Our ideal candidate will have a 2(i) or 1 st MEng, MGeol, MSci, or BSc + MSc in civil engineering, geotechnics or engineering geology and be able to demonstrate:
- A strong interest in geotechnical engineering / engineering geology and a track record of related experience in an academic and/or industrial context,
- Written and verbal communication skills,
- Numerical and analytical engineering skills and keen observational skills,
- Flexibility to work on site and overseas and eligible to work in the UK
- Desirable - Full, clean UK driving license and ideally access to a vehicle
