Senior Geotechnical Engineer

Application deadline

31 July 2026

Recruitment type

Full-Time, Permanent

Country

Ireland

Location

Dublin

Req. ID

61245

Senior Engineer (Geotechnical)

Dublin

Permanent

Office/Home Hybrid Working

Do you want to work together with our customers to shape a sustainable world? Can you play a key role in delivering technically excellent and innovative solutions across major infrastructure projects? Are you a Chartered Senior Geotechnical Engineer? Then, this is the place to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow

Create Solutions That Enable a Better Tomorrow

To our geotechnical team, we are looking for a Senior Engineer to join us. Working on a diverse portfolio of infrastructure, you’ll deliver technically robust and sustainable solutions on projects across the Ireland and the UK.

Your Key Responsibilities will be:

Support the management of project risk through interdisciplinary design reviews and resolution of technical findings

Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to junior engineers

Ability to take ownership of complex geotechnical challenges from concept through to delivery

Lead the production and delivery of geotechnical analyses, calculations, drawings, specifications, and reports

Lead soil–structure interaction analysis for a range of infrastructure projects, with a particular focus on bridge foundations, substructures and retaining walls

Review and approve technical outputs, ensuring compliance with industry standards and COWI best practice

Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams, particularly bridge and structural engineers, to deliver integrated design solutions

Ensure adherence to COWI’s Integrated Management System for quality, health & safety, and environmental performance

Contribute to resolving complex geotechnical challenges across a range of projects

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’ll have:

MSc or MEng in Civil Engineering or a related discipline

Chartered Engineer (CEng) status

Strong experience in geotechnical design within a consultancy environment

Proficiency in geotechnical software such as GeoStudio (Slope/W, Seep/W) and/or PLAXIS

Demonstrated ability to interpret ground investigation data and apply current standards and best practice

Experience leading design elements and supporting junior staff development

Excellent communication skills with the ability to produce clear, high-quality technical reports

Site experience is desirable

Full driving licence

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 the Nordic region, the UK, Ireland, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer:

To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.

Some of our benefits include:

28 days' holiday plus bank and public holidays

Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities

Private health care

Flexible and hybrid working conditions

Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Got more questions?

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Ciaran Gilfedder at CIGI@COWI.COM.

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.

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