Geotechnical Specialist: Modelling & Digital Engineering

COWI; Aalborg; On-site; DKK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

COWI is shaping offshore wind through digital geotechnical engineering. Join our Offshore Geotechnics team to contribute across site investigations, design support, and advanced analyses, including numerical modelling and automated workflows.

You will collaborate with interdisciplinary experts, advance digital tools, and help drive innovation in geotechnical processes while working in an international environment.

Qualifications

• Hold an MSc or PhD in Geotechnical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related discipline, with approximately 5 years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrate solid geotechnical engineering fundamentals, analytical capabilities, and experience with numerical modelling and geotechnical software.
• Possess proficiency in Python, MATLAB, or similar programming environments, with the ability or interest to develop digital engineering solutions.
• Show a keen interest in automation, digitalisation, and the continuous improvement of engineering processes and workflows.
• Be capable of working independently, effectively structuring both short- and long-term objectives, priorities, and processes.
• Thrive in collaborative environments, communicating fluently in English and working closely with colleagues and specialists through open feedback and knowledge-sharing practices.

Responsibilities

• Deliver geotechnical engineering analyses, interpretation, assessments, and design support for offshore wind projects.
• Perform advanced numerical modelling and geotechnical analyses using tools such as PLAXIS.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance engineering tools, scripts, and automated workflows using Python, MATLAB, and similar technologies.
• Support the adoption of automation, AI, and digital engineering solutions within geotechnical processes.
• Support the efficient management, analysis, and visualisation of geotechnical data to improve project outcomes.
• Collaborate with geotechnical, structural, and digital specialists across disciplines, while contributing to technical development initiatives and knowledge sharing within the Offshore Geotechnics team.

Education

MSc in Geotechnical Engineering

PhD (preferred)

Tools

PLAXIS

Python

MATLAB

Geotechnical software

Job description

Do you want to help shape the future of offshore wind through digital innovation in geotechnical engineering? Can you solve complex engineering challenges while developing smarter tools and automated workflows? Then, join COWI’s Offshore Geotechnics team and help deliver some of the world’s most exciting offshore wind projects.

Create the solutions that will enable a better tomorrow

At COWI, you will become part of our Offshore Geotechnics team and contribute across the full project lifecycle of major offshore wind developments, from site investigations and geotechnical interpretation to foundation design, advanced analysis, and lifetime extension. As the industry continues to grow in scale and complexity, you will be part of a team exploring smarter ways of working through digital tools, automation, and innovative engineering solutions. You will have the opportunity to solve complex engineering challenges, contribute to the digital transformation of geotechnical engineering and work alongside a collaborative and highly international team, helping shape how engineering is delivered and supporting the future of offshore renewable energy.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Deliver geotechnical engineering analyses, interpretation, assessments, and design support for offshore wind projects.
• Perform advanced numerical modelling and geotechnical analyses using tools such as PLAXIS.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance engineering tools, scripts, and automated workflows using Python, MATLAB, and similar technologies.
• Support the adoption of automation, AI, and digital engineering solutions within geotechnical processes.
• Support the efficient management, analysis, and visualisation of geotechnical data to improve project outcomes.
• Collaborate with geotechnical, structural, and digital specialists across disciplines, while contributing to technical development initiatives and knowledge sharing within the Offshore Geotechnics team.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways, but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you will have:

• Hold an MSc or PhD in Geotechnical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related discipline, with approximately 5 years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrate solid geotechnical engineering fundamentals, analytical capabilities, and experience with numerical modelling and geotechnical software.
• Possess proficiency in Python, MATLAB, or similar programming environments, with the ability or interest to develop digital engineering solutions.
• Show a keen interest in automation, digitalisation, and the continuous improvement of engineering processes and workflows.
• Be capable of working independently, effectively structuring both short- and long-term objectives, priorities, and processes.
• Thrive in collaborative environments, communicating fluently in English and working closely with colleagues and specialists through open feedback and knowledge-sharing practices.

Experience from offshore wind, offshore foundations, marine geotechnics or related sectors, as well as other geotechnical disciplines applied within offshore renewable energy.

A place to work and so much more

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in Scandinavia, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Diversity is fundamental to COWI, inclusion is key.

We are committed to creating a respectful and fair work environment where all employees have a sense of belonging and equitable opportunities to thrive and grow. We ensure that our leaders are role models for inclusive leadership by cultivating a culture where diverse perspectives and thoughts are seen as strengths. And we take diversity and inclusion into account in all relevant decisions and processes and when setting teams and fora. We do it because it is part of our values and because it is simply the right thing to do.