West Tunnel Practice Lead

Pay

Base pay range: $/yr - $/yr

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, empowering us to bring our authentic selves to work every day. We focus on inclusion and impact, especially in the Water Business Group, where you will help shape how communities manage water for generations to come, supporting public health, environmental sustainability, and infrastructure resilience.

This key leadership role functions in partnership with top water professionals, leading large infrastructure projects in the Central and West Regions with a focus on hydraulic tunnel engineering.

• 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 and the 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

• Master’s degree
• Ability to communicate and coordinate work within an integrated multidisciplinary team
• U.S.
  
  -focused tunneling design and construction experience
• Lead design and construction of tunnels and underground facilities for major projects
• Rock mechanics, soil mechanics, and geotechnical engineering expertise
• Wide variety of ground conditions experience
• Applications of SEM, NATM, SCL, EPBM, and cut-and-cover techniques
• Track record of industry-facing publications and presentations; active professional organization participation
• Ph.D. in engineering or related field
• Experience managing staff, clients, and contracts; hiring staff for an engineering consulting firm
• Excellent marketing and business development skills with industry contacts
• Experience in numerical analysis (FLAC, UDEC, PHASES2, PLAXIS 2D & 3D, MIDAS GTS, MODFLOW, etc.)
• Ground-structure interaction modeling (FEM or similar)
• Experience in large-scale underground projects, urban tunneling, and tunnel rehabilitation
• Prior experience in construction or as a contractor
• Robust interpersonal skills and professional demeanor for client interaction

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
• 10 years of related experience
• Minimum 5 years of project management experience
• Professional engineering license (PE or P.Eng.) recognized for the location
• MS Office and MS Project experience (Access experience a plus)
• Demonstrated leadership, business development, and strategic planning skills
• Commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture

We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, health, performance, and success, including medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus, and tuition reimbursement. HDR is our company; together we build on each other's experiences and perspectives to make great things possible…