Geotechnical Advisor

• 30 days of leave with full-time employment, with the possibility to buy or sell extra days.
• Employees may use the NS business card for private use free of charge.
• Additional arrangements regarding partner parental leave and paid parental leave.
• Possibility for hybrid working, facilitated by an appropriate home office allowance and a professionally equipped workspace at home.
• Good pension scheme with the Dutch Pension Fund (HNPF), where Arcadis pays the largest part of the premium.
• Opportunities to follow courses and training, access to our extensive Arcadis Learning Experience Platform (LXP).

Arcadis is the global partner at the forefront of the most impactful projects of our time. We help our clients make sustainable choices through the combination of digital innovation, expertise, and future-oriented skills in areas such as environment, energy, water, buildings, transport, and infrastructure. We take that extra step to offer our clients tailored solutions for design, engineering, and consultancy. By utilizing data-driven insights, we shape the natural and built environment together.

With more than 34,000 people, we pool global expertise and tackle challenges such as climate, affordable energy, and livable cities together. We improve quality of life through our presence in more than 30 countries.

As a Geotechnical Advisor, you will be part of multidisciplinary teams working on hydraulic engineering, infrastructure, and utility projects, both domestically and abroad. Geotechnics forms the foundation of all these projects, both literally and figuratively. With us, you will have the opportunity to be involved in diverse and complex geotechnical challenges. You will primarily focus on structural geotechnics, such as retaining walls, foundations, and reinforced soils. Think of designing dike reinforcements, deep excavation pits, and quay walls. As a geotechnical advisor, you are responsible for defining, supervising, and interpreting soil investigations to establish basic principles based on standards and guidelines. You will perform design calculations and prepare advisory reports using geotechnical software. In your designs, you will take into account economic optimization, feasibility, environmental impact, and safety. Additionally, you will utilize your digital skills to further standardize and automate the work and design process.

Within our company, geotechnics plays an important role in various project phases, ranging from advising during the planning phase for clients to geotechnical supervision during execution in collaboration with contractors within tender consortia. Some high-profile projects that we have been working on or have worked on recently include:

• Fraser River Tunnel in Vancouver, CA

• Zuidasdok Amsterdam Renovation of the Afsluitdijk

• New Terneuzen Sluice

• Ringweg Zuid Groningen

• Aziëhaven Amsterdam Quay Wall

• Replacement and renovation issues in the Netherlands

Your entrepreneurial and professional attitude ensures that you feel at home in a result-oriented environment. Here, your innovative solutions and advice will truly shine. You are a true team player, but can also work excellently independently. You also have an eye for the digital developments taking place within the geotechnical advisory world. Furthermore, you possess:

We achieve our goals by enabling everyone to get the best out of themselves. We believe that everyone's contribution matters. That is why we pioneer with an approach based on your skills and build a 'Skills Powered Organisation'. With your unique experience and expertise, you will map out your own career path. Together we maximize impact! Your work makes the difference. Whatever role you play, you help provide sustainable solutions for a healthier planet. Leave your mark on your career, your colleagues, clients, your life, and the world around you. On our website, you can read the blogs of Arcadians to find out how we do this.

Arcadis offers you a position with a lot of freedom to independently shape your work in an ambitious and driven team. In addition to a great work culture, we have also included excellent employment conditions, including:

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion, and belonging:

We want you to be your best self every day. We take equality and inclusion very seriously and we hold ourselves accountable for our actions. We want to be an employer of choice and offer everyone a great workplace.

Recruitment, secondment, and HR agencies do not need to respond; acquisition following this vacancy is not appreciated.

An assessment and/or pre-employment screening may be part of the application procedure.