West Tunnel Practice Lead

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued, respected, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work every day. HDR fosters a culture of inclusion across our company and communities, continually exploring our impact on the world.

This key leadership role functions in partnership with top water professionals. The Central/West Tunnel Practice Lead will lead the largest and most significant infrastructure projects across the Central and West Regions, focusing on hydraulic tunnel engineering and trenchless discipline.

• Direct involvement and oversight on select projects to manage tunnel related services.
• Advising on and review of alternatives analyses and feasibility studies related to tunnels.
• Risk Management and risk awareness of the WBG tunneling portfolio.
• Subconsultant vetting and working with teams for subconsultant risk management including required QA activities and scope provisions.
• Assessment and enhancement of HDR’s capabilities regarding tunnel construction and trenchless technologies including expertise with SEM and NATM.
• Collaboration with HDR’s WBG Tunnel Practice Lead and Geotechnical Cross Sector.
• Verify qualifications and training of field staff assigned to construction phase services related to tunnels.

• Cost Engineering support.
• Skills and bench-depth management for tunnel instrumentation, mechanical, civil, and mechanical consulting and design support for projects.
• Assessing terrestrial and marine construction capabilities.
• Numerical modeling to support tunnel projects including modeling of ground/structure interaction and underpinning of buildings and utilities.
• Technologies for coordination/production of design (calculations), design products, and contract documents.
• Site characterization and geotechnical evaluations.
• Construction Engineering support.
• Inspections and Condition Assessments.
• Resiliency, operations, and emergency response issues.

• Masters degree.
• Ability to communicate and coordinate work within an integrated multidisciplinary team.
• Applicable experience in U.S. focused tunneling design and construction.
• Leading the design and construction of tunnels and underground facilities for major projects.
• Rock mechanics, soil mechanics, and geotechnical engineering.
• Wide varieties of ground conditions.
• Applications of various approaches and technologies such as SEM, NATM, SCL, EPBM, and cut-and-cover techniques.
• Track record of industry facing publication and presentation of technical papers and active participation in professional organizations.
• Ph.D. in engineering or related field.
• Previous experience managing staff, clients and contracts, and hiring staff for an engineering consulting firm, is desired.
• Excellent marketing and business development skills in addition to contacts/relationships in respective business class discipline.
• Experience in numerical analysis such as FLAC, UDEC, PHASES2, PLAXIS 2D & 3D, MIDAS GTS, MODFLOW, etc. is a plus.
• Ground-structure-interaction modelling (FEM or similar).
• Experience in large scale underground projects, urban tunneling, tunnel rehabilitation.
• Prior working experience in construction or working for a contractor.
• Robust interpersonal skills and professional demeanor appropriate for interacting with clients, other design professionals and colleagues.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• 10 years related experience.
• Minimum 5 years project management experience.
• Professional engineering license (PE or P.Eng) recognized by the licensing board for the location offered.
• MS Office and MS Project experience (Access experience would be plus).
• Demonstrated leadership, business development and strategic planning skills.
• Active participation of our employee-owned culture is a must.

HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.

As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day. Our eight Employee Network Groups foster a sense of belonging and provide a supportive environment where everyone can engage and contribute.

The expected compensation range for this position is $116,802 - $231,750 depending upon skills, experience, education and geographical location.

• Primary
  
  Location:
  
  United States-Wisconsin-Madison
• Other Locations:
  United States-Oklahoma, United States-Texas-Round Rock, United States-South Dakota-Rapid City, United States-Minnesota, United States-Washington-Bellevue, United States-Wyoming-Cheyenne, United States-Missouri-Kansas City, United States-South Dakota-Sioux Falls, United States-Oregon, United…