Head of Subsidence Diagnosis

This is a role for someone who is passionate about solving domestic property subsidence issues to the highest technical standard. The role covers all aspects of Engineering for our residential subsidence repair business. It is a hands-on role in all aspects, including site visits and being personally responsible for deliverables including supporting our Global businesses.

Key tasks include: Accurately diagnosing subsidence properties both structurally and geotechnically and creating technically correct treatment plans, Feasibility of schemes, design, design checking, quality assurance of all residential designs, quote quality checking and advising the operations department on engineering matters.

• Training of Area Managers
• Designing a suitable repair for buildings that have suffered from subsidence
• Proactive customer work to educate the market
• Developing feasibility schemes
• Checking of internal design in accordance with in house design guidelines
• Signing off Certificates of Structural Adequacy.
• Working with operations to learn how designs perform on site
• Visiting properties in person (20%)
• Checking the quality of quotations in lines with in house quoting guidelines
• Supporting Head of Social Housing and Head of New insurance business in business development
• Supervising retreatment works on site
• Creating designs

• Ideally coming from a contracting and / or consulting business and / or loss adjusting and / or building control with experience in building / foundation engineering and repair. This role requires someone who is used to dealing with multiple tasks at a time with strong ICT skills, preferably Salesforce. Experience of dealing directly with both customers and internal stakeholders. They will have a good knowledge of building techniques and design.
• Ability and willingness to carry out virtual inspections of residential dwellings to diagnose the problem
• Member of ICE / IStructE
• Operates with high integrity, is resilient and takes ownership of their objectives. This person should be knowledgeable, highly organized, dynamic and flexible in their approach and should be of a strong character and have the ability to challenge performance and be challenged.
• Strong team player and excellent communicator.
• A track record of designing geotechnical solutions, preferably in domestic subsidence space
• IT skills across multiple platforms - Google Suite/MS Office/Salesforce/Plaxis
• Experience in retaining wall analysis and design.
• c10 years experience in engineering
• Diagnosing properties
• Ability to work with speed to issue design and QA approvals
• Hands-on individual who is used to working in a fast paced changing environment. Someone who can work under pressure, solve problems and is a good team player.
• Educated to degree standard in Civil & Structural Engineering, M Eng / MSc (Eng) preferable
• Visiting properties online (80%)

We prioritise our values and provide a place where you can be yourself and thrive. Geobear offers opportunities for development, growth, and a remarkable career.

Culture: We foster a growth mindset culture where every team member has an opportunity to harness their skills and experience and to develop their professional skills to advance in the company if they perform well over time.

If you are hungry for growth, enjoy targets and are open-minded about new ways of thinking and doing things, you will find it great working for Geobear. Our job is to solve problems for our clients, so the more proactive a problem solver you are, the better you will fit into our team of dedicated colleagues. We strive to keep our clients' world running with our proven technology which saves time, money and the impact on the world.

• Overseas support during holiday periods