West Tunnel Practice Lead

HDR is committed to an inclusive environment where employee-owners are valued and empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. This role focuses on hydraulic tunnel engineering within HDR’s Water Business Group, leading large-scale trenchless projects in the Central and West Regions. The Central/West Tunnel Practice Lead will partner with top water professionals, oversee trenchless discipline work, support client relations, and participate in project development and contract document preparation.

Regular travel may be required to support project execution, business development, and stakeholder engagement.

• Primary Responsibilities
  • 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 Quality Assurance activities and scope provisions
  • Assessment and enhancement of HDR’s capabilities regarding tunnel construction and trenchless technologies including expertise with Sequential Excavation Method (SEM) and the New Austrian Tunneling Method (NATM)
  • Collaboration with HDR’s WBG Tunnel Practice Lead our Geotechnical Cross Sector
  • Verify qualifications and training of field staff assigned to construction phase services related to tunnels
• Secondary Responsibilities
  • 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

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a strategic and technical expert. The role supports the tunnel practice focusing on execution, supervision and planning of tunneling projects and manages client relationships. Regular travel may be required to support project execution, ongoing business development, and to meet with internal and external stakeholders.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• 10 years related experience
• A minimum 5 years project management experience
• Requires professional engineering license recognized by the licensing board for the location of the position offered (e.g., PE or P.Eng)
• MS Office and MS Project experience (Access would be a plus)
• Demonstrated leadership, business development and strategic planning skills
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture

• 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 publications and professional involvement
• Ph.D. in engineering or related field
• Experience managing staff, clients and contracts in an engineering consulting firm
• Excellent marketing and business development skills and professional network in the discipline
• Experience with numerical analysis tools (e.g., FLAC, UDEC, PHASES2, PLAXIS 2D/3D, MIDAS GTS, MODFLOW) is a plus
• Ground-structure-interaction modelling (FEM or similar)
• Experience in large-scale underground projects, urban tunneling, tunnel rehabilitation
• Prior experience with construction or contractor environments

What We Believe and Our Commitment: HDR is committed to employment equity and is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide a comprehensive benefits package and compensation details are available in the posting.

Primary

Location:

United States-Wisconsin-Madison. Other locations listed reflect HDR’s nationwide opportunities.

Industry: Water |

Schedule:

Full-time | Employee Status:
Regular

This position is subject to HDR’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy. We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.