Lead Engineer - Civil, Structural and Geotechnical Works

Somebody has to close the loop between the ground study and the layout

We usually know a great deal about the ground before engineering starts. The investigation has been done and the report exists.

What is not guaranteed is that the manufacturer’s engineers design to it, or that what they hand back finds its way into the layout.

Somebody has to close that loop. Ground study into supplier design, supplier design back into the layout, and then every consequence that follows for piling, drainage, access and cable routes.

Closing it is the job.

Technica works as EPC-M contractor on utility-scale solar, wind and battery storage projects across Europe, currently including a ground-mount solar farm of around 130 MW in Ireland.

On the ground and structures side you would scope the geotechnical investigation, specify the pile test regime and interrogate what comes back, then hold the substructure suppliers to it: their foundation design, their mechanical design for it, module mounting and installation tolerances, and the structural review of inverter and MV station foundations and substation civils. On the works side you would own earthworks and grading, drainage and surface water management, access tracks, haul and crane routes, trench design and cable route civils, fencing and boundary works, temporary works, and the planning and permitting conditions that constrain all of it.

The detailed design of foundations and structures sits with consultants and suppliers. Your job is to define what they need to deliver, to judge whether the result is actually buildable, and to hold the line when a layout optimisation quietly creates a drainage or an access problem.

The interfaces are where this role earns its keep. Cable routes, station positions and duct runs are electrical and control decisions that land in your drawings. Your grading and drainage decisions land back in theirs. If you enjoy that negotiation, you will enjoy this role. If you would rather receive a frozen layout and design to it, you will not.

This role is hard in specific ways, and we would rather say so now:

- You will have to get a supplier’s engineering team to engage properly with a ground report they would rather apply their standard solution to. That is as much a persuasion problem as a technical one.

- Merging a revised foundation design back into a layout means reopening work that other disciplines already consider finished, and being the person who asks for that.

- You will have to say no to layout changes that look free and are not.

- A real part of the week goes into drawing review, registers and comment sheets.

- The role involves being on site, in weather, at the moments when it matters.

At Technica you will join a young, fast-growing company working across photovoltaic, wind and battery energy storage projects throughout Europe. We are part of the renewable energy transition, but we are not here to write reports about it from a distance. We develop projects, solve problems, take responsibility and move things forward.

You will work directly with senior decision-makers, clients, utilities, suppliers and experienced project teams. Short decision paths, real ownership, and no expectation that you stay inside the lane your job title suggests. If you also have strength in electrical works or control systems, there is room here to use it rather than hand it off.

You may come from civil or structural consultancy, EPC or contracting, infrastructure, geotechnical engineering, ports, roads, wind foundations or heavy industrial construction. Mechanical engineers who have worked on steel structures and installation methodology are equally relevant. Solar experience is welcome and not required. What matters is that you have designed or reviewed groundworks and structures that were then actually built, and that you went back and saw what happened.

Candidates would typically have something like seven to ten years of engineering experience behind them. That is a centre of gravity, not a cut-off. If you can do the work, we are not going to count years.

The role can be based in Ikast, Køge (Copenhagen) or Athlone. Remote work is possible as much as reasonable for the role and project needs. The role involves travel to project sites and to external design partners in Europe: not constant, but real. Our working language is English. Danish is useful and not required.

Apply via the link on this page with a short introduction and your CV.

And tell us about a time the ground did not behave the way the design assumed, and what it cost.