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CHIEF SPECIALIST FOR GROUND ENGINEERING

Location:
Lyngby, Denmark
Closing date:
23/05/2014
​Every day at COWI, you will get a golden opportunity to use your world-class knowledge to solve the most challenging problems and deliver 360° solutions to our customers. With us, your knowledge will make a difference.
For our office in Lyngby, Denmark we are currently looking for a Chief Specialist within ground engineering for our Department for Marine and Foundation Engineering. Our main market areas are offshore wind, marine terminals, ports and coastal engineering and, within ground engineering, also tunnels and bridges. We are a part of COWI's major business line, Bridge, Tunnel and Marine Structures, and work in a highly international environment with projects all over the world.
The department currently employs 90 dedicated employees and is divided into four sections, two of which focus on ground engineering. Our 40 geotechnical engineers and geologists are part of a unique professional and international environment with more than 120 employees working with ground engineering in COWI's offices worldwide. COWI's ground engineering specialists are linked together in an effective and active technical network cutting across organisational and national boundaries.
You will be part of the management team in the department with specific responsibility for maintaining a high technical level of services ahead of current demands in our key markets.
Our team of geotechnical engineers and geologists work as an integrated part of our projects in all phases from feasibility studies and conceptual design to detailed design and construction supervision.

Your knowledge

  • Strong theoretical and practical knowledge of core disciplines within ground engineering
  • Experience from working in one or more of our key market segments
  • International working experience
  • Able to find practical and sustainable solutions to complex problems
  • Great communication skills in English (oral and written).

Your personality

  • You are able to maintain an overview in a complex environment.
  • You integrate people and knowledge.  
  • You are able to work across disciplines and to manage cultural differences.
  • You enjoy acting as sparring partner and mentor for young colleagues.
  • You are able to handle customer relations and participate in technical meetings.

POWERING YOUR 360° SOLUTIONS

COWI is a leading consulting group that creates value for customers, people and society through our unique 360° approach. Based on our world-class competencies within engineering, economics and environmental science, we tackle challenges from many vantage points to create coherent solutions for our customer.
With offices all over the world, we combine global presence with local knowledge to take on projects anywhere in the world – no matter how large or small. At any given moment, we are involved in more than 17,000 projects.
We have more than 80 years of experience in the business, and COWI is a leader within its field because our more than 6,200 employees are leaders within theirs. Together with our customers, we create coherence in tomorrow's sustainable societies.

SEND APPLICATION

​Please send your application by 23 May 2014 torihi@cowi.dk