Engineering Geology Lead | Offshore Ground Modelling Specialist

Key Skills

• Marine Geohazards
• Identify and Communicate key issues
• Offshore Renewables
• Assessment of entry to new operational areas
• Delivering Ground modelling
• Geohazards Assessments
• Very shallow (e.g. cables) settings
• Shallow (e.g. foundation) settings

Engineering Geology Lead | Offshore Ground Modelling Specialist Geo Hazard Specialist

Key Accountabilities/ Responsibilities:

• Provide geohazards expertise across offshore wind portfolio from bid through development to operations.
• Ensure geohazard identification, assessment and mitigation, for appropriate depths of interest (e.g. cable or foundation), by avoidance or by design at windfarm sites, cable routes, landfalls and onshore facilities, during site investigation and project design and execution.
• Work within an integrated geoscience team to build fit-for-purpose ground models for wind farm engineering.
• Quantify and present risks to relevant customers to ensure they are understood, controlled and continuously reduced across the business.
• Ensure safe and cost-efficient design and integrity management throughout asset life in accordance with industry technical practices and standards.
• Maintain relationships with third party suppliers, contractors, and other partners.
• Actively contribute to technology development and to the wider geohazards and geophysics communities of practice to share knowledge and findings.

Qualification & Education:

1. Degree in Geology, Geoscience, Engineering, or related field.

2. Excellent understanding of the impact of Marine Geohazards issues to operational safety and integrity in delivery of the organizational vision.

3. Ability to rapidly identify and communicate key issues in support of the growth of Offshore Renewables - especially in relation to the assessment of entry to new operational areas.

4. Extensive industry experience in delivering Ground modelling and Geohazards Assessments across a variety of international settings, for very shallow (e.g. cables) and shallow (e.g. foundation) settings.

5. Excellent interpersonal skills both oral and written.

6. Proven experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams and major projects with minimal technical supervision

7. Expert user of industry standard project and engineering software.

Beneficial Skills:

• PhD/MSc on Geohazards related subject.
• Excellent network across the global geoscience technical community.
• Membership of relevant industry panels or standards organizations (e.g. SUT, OGP, ISO etc).