Senior/Principal Sediment Dynamics Engineer

Our client is a major design, engineering and project management consultancy who has been rapidly growing within various sectors and who is looking for multiple experienced professionals to join them on permanent basis. This role is for a Senior/Principal Sediment Dynamics Engineer based in Epsom, London or Glasgow.  

Job Description:  

Your day-to-day role may include the following activities:  

- Acting as technical lead for seabed mobility and scour assessments.  

- Development of our Client's seabed mobility and scour assessment capability, including presenting to key clients, business development activities and proposing technical investment and capability enhancement activities.  

- Providing technical input to bids for seabed mobility and scour assessment scopes of work.  

- Acting as a champion for sediment dynamics within our Client's Marine Geoscience team.  

- Undertaking seabed mobility and scour assessments for offshore wind farm and subsea cables projects.  

- Calibrate models throughout the lifetime of the project.  

- Integration and analysis of metocean, hydrodynamic, hydrographic and geotechnical data.  

- Numerical sediment dynamics modelling of the seabed throughout the lifetime of the engineered infrastructure (offshore wind farms and cable routes).  

- Working closely with marine geophysicists & geoscientists, engineering geologists, geotechnical engineers, and engineering geomorphologists on offshore renewables and subsea cable projects.

- A strong academic background with a relevant degree (ideally MSc or equivalent) with geoscience or civil engineering content.  

- Experience of acting in a relevant role within the offshore renewables industry, interconnector or telecommunications cables industries or a related field.  

- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.  

- Excellent interpersonal and technical skills and the ability to work independently or as part of a team on sediment dynamics scopes of work.  

- Ability to undertake statistical assessment of sediment mobility from bathymetric data.  

- Experience in performing scour and bed shear stress analysis.  

- Ability to undertake hydrodynamic and sediment dynamics modelling using applicable software such as Mike21, Delft3D or equivalent.  

- Excellent report writing skills with the ability to self-check and produce accurate work.  

The following qualities are desirable -  

- Working towards chartership with the Society for Underwater Technology (SUT), Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) or Geological Society of London (GSL).  

- Experience in the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software (ArcGIS, QGIS or similar).