West Tunnel Practice Lead

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At HDR, our employee‑owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected. Our culture is inclusive, collaborative, and centered on delivering innovative solutions for public health, environmental sustainability, and infrastructure resilience.

• 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

• 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
• A minimum 5 years project management experience
• Requires professional engineering license recognized by the licensing board for the location of the position offered. Example:
  Professional Engineer (PE or P.Eng) license.
• MS Office and MS Project experience (Access experience would be plus)
• Demonstrated leadership, business development and strategic planning skills
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee‑owned culture is a must

The expected compensation range for this position is $116,802 – $231,750 depending upon skills, experience, education and geographical location. (Stated benefits are for full‑time regular positions. Temporary and part‑time roles eligible for limited benefits.)

United States – Wisconsin – Madison

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