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Geotechnical Projects Manager

United Kingdom, Preston 60000.00 GBP / Year · Job Posted February 01, 2026
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Lead. Innovate. Shape the Ground Beneath Our Future. We’re looking for an influential Geotechnical Engineering Manager to lead and elevate our ground engineering, CQA, and surveying capabilities. If you’re driven by technical excellence, thrive in a multi‑disciplinary environment, and want to shape landscapes, infrastructure, and sustainable development projects – this is your next step. In this high‑impact role, you’ll combine deep geotechnical expertise with hands‑on leadership, guiding teams across design, investigation, surveying, modelling, and construction quality assurance. You’ll be instrumental in delivering robust, compliant, and future‑focused engineering solutions across a wide variety of sites, including civil infrastructure and landfill engineering.

Job Responsibility

  • Drive geotechnical design for foundations, slopes, earthworks, and ground improvement
  • Oversee and review CQA validation for landfills, engineered slopes, and bulk earthworks
  • Direct ground investigations, interpret soil/rock data, and prepare high-quality technical reports
  • Ensure all ground engineering outputs are technically sound, compliant, and commercially effective
  • Lead on-site quality monitoring — including compaction, lining systems, and material compliance
  • Produce precise, professional CQA validation reports aligned with regulatory and design standards
  • Support environmental and engineering compliance on all earthworks and infrastructure schemes
  • Manage topographic, boundary, drone, and as-built survey workflows
  • Ensure complete integration of survey outputs into design, CQA, and volume calculations
  • Champion innovation in drone technologies, photogrammetry, and digital data capture
  • Direct the production of technical drawings, including logs, cross-sections, and foundation layouts
  • Oversee AutoCAD and Civil 3D workflows to ensure accuracy, quality, and consistency
  • Promote GIS integration for advanced analysis and visualisation
  • Work alongside landscape architects and environmental specialists to engineer functional, sustainable landforms
  • Contribute to projects involving SuDS, reclamation, restoration, and future-ready site development

Requirements

  • Degree in Geotechnical, Civil, Environmental Engineering, or similar
  • Proven geotechnical design experience with strong CQA and earthworks background
  • Confident user of AutoCAD and Civil 3D
  • Strong leadership of junior engineers, technicians, or surveyors
  • Skilled communicator with excellent technical writing capability

Nice to have

  • GIS experience
  • Knowledge of drone/geomatics workflows
  • A collaborative, solutions-driven mindset
  • Collaboration & Sustainable Landform Design (Desirable)

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