Geotechnical Discipline Lead

Join Ferrovial: Where Innovation Meets Opportunity

Are you ready to elevate your career with a global leader in infrastructure solving complex problems and generating a positive outcome on people’s lives? At Ferrovial, we are not just a company; we are a community of innovators and trailblazers. Listed on three major stock markets: Nasdaq (US), Euronext Amsterdam (Netherlands) and IBEX 35 (Spain), we are also member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and FTSE4Good. We operate in more than 15 countries and have a workforce of over 24,000 professionals worldwide., including Highways, Airports, Construction, and Energy.

Ferrovial Construction is internationally recognized for its capacity to design and build civil engineering and construction projects, mainly in large transportation infrastructure. Its track-record to date includes more than 304 miles of tunnels, 11,930 miles of roads (including 2,485 miles of highways), 2920 miles of railroad lines (including 434 miles of high-speed railroads) and 16,994 miles of road maintenance and repair.

Why Ferrovial?

• Global presence, local impact: Be part of a company that is shaping the future of infrastructure worldwide, with challenging roles and projects that make a real difference.
• Collaborative excellence: Work alongside talented professionals in a collaborative environment where your ideas and contributions are valued.    
• Inclusive Culture: Thrive in an innovative and respectful workplace that values every voice, celebrates what makes us unique and turns differences into innovation.
• Career growth: Benefit from global and cross-business unit mobility, with development processes designed to ensure your professional growth.
• Compelling benefits and employee wellbeing: Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that rewards your hard work and dedication and take advantage of initiatives designed to support your physical and psychological health.
• Productivity tools: Utilize cutting-edge tools like Microsoft Copilot to enhance your productivity and efficiency.

Job Description:

• Functionally responsible for leading the geotechnical, geology and I&M technical teams across the programme
• Provide specialist technical expertise to support each project within the programme, leading technical resolution to significant geotechnical challenges with a “best-for-project” mentality, accounting for contract requirements, cost, schedule, risk, etc
• Drive progressive technical assurance of construction-stage technical closeout of items such as the ground risk registers, geotechnical feedback reports and monitoring reports, ensuring technical quality is in accordance with client expectations
• Ensure timely delivery of construction-stage technical documentation from design consultants to enable handover in accordance with schedule needs and key dates
• Ownership of programme-wide standard details and contract requirements (technical) within the area of responsibility
• In collaboration with the projects’ technical leads, ensure the timely delivery of remaining geotechnical designs
• Lead the team in effectively managing relevant commercial and contractual communications (TQs, EWs, EIs, CEs, etc.) associated with area of responsibility with suppliers and client
• Relationship owner and focal point for the client’s geotechnical subject matter experts to enable a productive and collaborative working relationship within the discipline
• Lead by example and promote good practice relating to geotechnical, geology and I&M, sharing learning across the programme

Department: Technical Function

Reports to:  Technical Disciplines Director

Management Responsibility: Lead Geologist, I&M Manager and Geotechnical Design Managers (functionally)

JV Organisation: EKFB

Key Skills and qualifications

• Degree qualified and experienced in technical earthworks design and construction support roles
• Chartered (e.g. CEng MICE) professional qualification desired
• Excellent knowledge of relevant earthworks design standards and its applicability for the design
• Ability to lead and manage a team with competing priorities with a focus on what is ‘best for project’
• Management of commercial/contractual aspects of projects with suppliers and client
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience of influencing and negotiating with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders and the ability to extract key points and communicate this to others

Key relationships include: Project Technical Leads, Earthworks Delivery Teams, Design Consultants and Client Subject Matter Experts.

*Please note that this job description does not represent a comprehensive list of activities and employees may be requested to undertake other reasonable duties.

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