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Joseph Gallagher Limited
Design engineer
Posted: 9 July
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Location: Leeds

Contract: Full time

Hours: 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday

Salary: Competitive (DOE)

Benefits: Discretionary bonus, life Assurance (x4 salary), generous pension, best practice awards / vouchers, employee assistance programme, an array of perks via Perkbox, 31 days annual leave (inc bank holidays)

Role Summary

The role will require you to develop designs for tunnels and shafts construction in the UK and internationally. You will have a fundamental understanding of Geotechnical properties for underground construction as well structural design capability. All tunnel design requires an assessment of the impact of tunnelling activity on other third-party assets and thus require third party approvals. Good report writing skills is expected with a sound understanding of the design processes to report and present designs to statutory authorities such as National Highways or Network Rail and the like.

You will be capable of assessing the ground structure interaction analysis techniques for tunnel design, and for a wide range different form of tunnelling, and trenchless utility installation methods such as Microtunnelling, HDD, Augerbore, Pipe ramming or Headings.

You will be supported by our small but dynamic team of engineers based in our Georgian style design office in central Leeds, once a former Bank.

For those who have the will and determination to work hard and seek to learn, we will support your professional development to progress you to a chartered engineer.

Typical application


* shaft design, including buoyant stability, jacking collars, reinforced concrete bases, tremie plugs, cover slabs opening support structures
* Tunnel designs for Timber Headings, Microtunnelling/Pipejacking,
* HDD design.
* Thrust walls, head walls, launch frames, pipeline proof loads
* Excavation Stability and support, with a thorough understanding of geotechnical principals for shoring techniques and design of sheet piles & frames, PC modular units, king post etc
* Earth work stability slope stability analysis, soil nailing
* Crane platforms.
* Tunnelling impact assessments

Prerequisite Requirements:

* Education
o GCSE English, Maths and Physics
o A Level English Maths and Physics
o Batchelor or Master level in a Civil / Geotechnical or Geology based engineering
* Work Experience
o 3-8 years' min
* Interpersonal skill
o Enthusiasm
o Willingness to learn and be helpful,
o Seeks challenges
o Hard working
o Integrity
Duties & Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* Produce Geotechnical and structural Design
* Report writing
* Progress reports
* All manner of assistance for the Senior management team
* Work as part of team
* Mentor junior members of the team

Company Background

The Joseph Gallagher Group is a family owned Civil Engineering business that delivers expertise whilst putting client satisfaction at the core of the business. Built on a personal reputation for honesty and quality, we understand the actions we take affect the communities and environments we operate in.

LIFE Culture

We're promoting a culture change within the industry and demonstrating initiatives to dramatically improve Health, Safety and Wellbeing. In 2014, we launched our award-winning cultural safety programme (LIFE) which is deeply embedded into the company’s DNA and core values.

Disability Confident Committed

We are a disability confident employer and we're committed to providing equal opportunities in employment. All individuals will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation.

Reasonable Adjustments

We want to make our recruitment processes accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you to enable you to be the best you can, please contact the HR team at HR@josephgallagher.co.uk.

We are one of the UK's leading civil engineering and tunnelling contractors, offering a wide range of construction and specialist services.


Seniority level

* Seniority level

Mid-Senior level


Employment type

* Employment type

Full-time


Job function

* Job function

Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries

Civil Engineering

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