Engineering Hydrogeologist Uk Wide

Jacobs; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as an Engineering Hydrogeologist, where you will contribute to significant geological projects across the UK. You will work within multidisciplinary teams, focusing on groundwater management and environmental assessments, while promoting innovative solutions. The role offers a hybrid working environment, allowing flexibility between office and remote work.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable track record of engineering hydrogeology projects.
• Experience in groundwater site characterization and quantitative assessments.

Responsibilities

• Support excavation dewatering and tunnelling projects.
• Produce groundwater reports for underground structures design.
• Liaison with contractors and regulators.

Skills

Collaboration

Technical Delivery

Groundwater Management

Hydrogeology

Education

Honours degree in earth sciences

Tools

SEEP/W

Groundwater Vistas

Job description

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At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery, and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

Playing a key part in our Water Catchment Management & Maritime capability team in the UK, you will be involved in the technical delivery of a wide scope of geological and hydrogeological projects. As part of a project-focused multidisciplinary team, you will also provide functional expertise to water resource management and environmental impact assessments.

About The Opportunity

In this newly created role, your remit will include:

• Supporting excavation dewatering projects, tunnelling projects, and assessments for large-scale infrastructure projects.
• Scoping, supervising, and interpreting ground investigations to support engineering design.
• Producing and interpreting groundwater reports to support underground structures design, groundwater management, and hydro-geomechanical behavior assessment.
• Working in collaborative multidisciplinary teams.
• Promoting the consideration of engineering hydrogeology to foster innovative project solutions.
• Liaison with contractors, laboratories, and regulators.

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations to enable them to deliver their best work.

Here's what you'll need

We would be delighted to hear from candidates with a blend of the following:

• Honours degree in earth sciences, or equivalent.
• Chartered with the ICE or Geological Society (or similar).
• Demonstrable track record of technical delivery of engineering hydrogeology projects.
• Experience of groundwater site characterization, site investigation supervision, and quantitative groundwater assessments.
• Exposure to supervising in situ testing including variable head tests, packer tests, pumping tests, etc.
• Experience in specifying and supervising the installation of groundwater monitoring instrumentation.
• A sound knowledge of numerical modelling (such as SEEP/W and/or Groundwater Vistas and/or other similar software).

The role will require you to work away from your base office from time to time.

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion, and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centered on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s – find out more about our employee networks here.

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility, please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates seeking flexible working and those who may not meet all the listed requirements.

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Seniority level

• Not Applicable

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Research, Analyst, and Information Technology

Industries

• Civil Engineering, Design Services, and IT Services and IT Consulting