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Lead Geotechnical Engineer
VINCI Construction·Retford, England, United Kingdom·Hybrid·Full-time
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Summary
the pitchJoin NUVIA UK as a Lead Geotechnical Engineer, where you will play a crucial role in defining, integrating, and assuring the geotechnical design basis for the STEP Prototype Plant. You will be responsible for ensuring foundation performance, ground stability, and soil-structure interaction for safety-classified and non-safety-classified structures. This position offers a hybrid work model and the opportunity to contribute to some of the UK's most innovative and strategically important programs in the nuclear, defense, and energy sectors.
Role
posted by companyKey Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the geotechnical design basis and parameters, aligned with STEP safety functional requirements and classification.
- Assess and manage liquefaction, total and differential settlement, bearing capacity and slope stability risks for the SPP site.
- Develop and assure ground improvement strategies appropriate for large, heavily‑loaded, vibration‑ and seismic‑sensitive nuclear structures.
- Provide authoritative input to:
- Seismic hazard response and load transfer
- Blast and extreme event assessments
- Soil–structure interaction modelling
- Integrate geotechnical data, models and assumptions into the STEP digital twin, supporting lifecycle change control and traceability.
- Support safety case authors by providing defensible geotechnical arguments, limits and claims.
- Interface with civil, structural, seismic, safety, CDM and construction teams to ensure design integration and buildability.
- Identify geotechnical risks to programme, safety or cost and support optioneering to reduce uncertainty at early design stages.
Key responsibilities
- Evaluar y gestionar los riesgos de licuefacción, asentamiento total y diferencial, capacidad de carga y estabilidad de taludes para el sitio del SPP.
- Desarrollar y asegurar estrategias de mejora del terreno apropiadas para estructuras nucleares grandes, pesadas y sensibles a las vibraciones y sismos.