🚨 We're Hiring: Senior Engineering Geologist
📍 Location: Tiverton with site work based around the UK
🕒 Type: Full-time (37.5 hours/week)
💰 Salary: £34,400 - £40,000 DOE
🌍 About Us
Develop and expand your career by joining an award-winning consultancy where you’ll further develop your knowledge and experience through complex projects alongside fantastic training and development opportunities designed to support your professional growth.
At CGL, we pride ourselves on being exceptional. We are true experts in our field, and everything we do is guided by our values: Safe, Excellent, Reliable, People. If you’re looking for a place where values genuinely shape day-to-day work, you’ll thrive here.
As a Senior Engineering Geologist, you’ll play a pivotal role in every stage of the project from inception to completion, from managing clients and subcontractors, being on-site working with our team to complete testing and supervising and managing site investigation or working in our office to analyse data and complete accurate interpretive reports, no two days will be the same.
You will be working within a supportive and collaborative team across a wider range of geological settings and ground hazards, contributing to a diverse portfolio of projects across the UK. In this role, you’ll be able to develop your engineering and geology skills, whether that be going for a professional chartership or accreditation, or moving into managing large projects and teams – we’ll be here to support you and help you grow.
This role offers a mixture of office and site-based work based around the UK where no two weeks are the same. Your designated office base will be Tiverton, 30 minutes north of Exeter, with opportunities to work on sites across the UK.
Our dynamic team delivers projects of all shapes and sizes — from major infrastructure schemes to local commercial and residential developments — giving you the chance to broaden your experience and develop your skills.
🔍 What You’ll Be Doing
This is a hands-on, role where no two days are the same. You’ll join our expert team to:
- Manage intrusive investigations (e.g., drilling, sampling, in-situ testing)
- Log soils and rocks to BS standards
- Liaise and manage clients, subcontractors, and internal teams supporting our senior leaders to ensure our jobs run smoothly
- Keep detailed site records, complete RAMS, and manage H&S documentation
- Report writing and data interpretation skills
- Take ownership of site activities, with strong support from experienced mentors as well as mentoring graduates.
- Maintain accurate site records, logs, and daily reports
- Ensure works are carried out in accordance with specifications, standards, and method statements
- Data processing and report preparation as required
🙋 Who We’re Looking For
Enthusiastic, engineering technicians who:
- Have a relevant degree in geology, engineering or similar
- 4 + Years in ground investigations
- Thrive on working outdoors, independently and in teams
- Knowledge and understanding of safe working and SHEQ Culture
- Have a full UK driving licence and are happy to travel/stay away as needed
- Experience of direct exposure to site works, decision making, risk assessment, basic design and implementation of projects
You may also have:
✔ CSCS Card, First Aid, EUSR HSG47 CAT 1 & 2
✔ Awareness of environmental legislation or industry H&S best practices
✔ Desire to work towards a relevant chartership
💡 What We Offer
We value your time, energy, and growth. You’ll get:
✅ Overtime + site allowances (where applicable)
✅ Company bonus scheme
✅ Flexible working options when projects allow
✅ 25+ days holiday + volunteering days
✅ Pension with employer contributions
✅ Westfield Health cash plan, Cycle to Work, Perkbox, Life Assurance & more..
✅ Mentoring, training and the ability to progress at your rate
✅ A collaborative, close-knit team culture focused on learning and career progression
Ready to get stuck in and build the foundations of your career- literally?
Apply now and be part of projects that matter, with people who care. 🌱🌍
Email your CV to hr@cgl-uk.com
Unfortunately, we are unable to accept any applications that require VISA sponsorship at this time.
