West Tunnel Practice Lead

Central / West Tunnel Practice Lead – HDR

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Each role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. As part of our Water Business Group, you’ll help shape how communities manage water for generations to come—delivering safe drinking water, treating wastewater responsibly, developing sustainable supplies, and protecting lives through flood control. This is a key leadership role that functions in partnership with the best and brightest water professionals across the industry, overseeing the largest and most significant infrastructure projects in the Central and West Regions, with a focus on hydraulic tunnel engineering.

• 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 QA activities and scope provisions
  • Assessment and enhancement of HDR’s capabilities regarding tunnel construction and trenchless technologies, including SEM and NATM expertise
  • 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
• 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 ground/structure interaction and underpinning of buildings and utilities
  • Coordinating and producing 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
• Applicable experience in U.S. focused tunneling design and construction, leading design and construction of tunnels and underground facilities for major projects, rock and soil mechanics, wide variety of ground conditions, and technologies such as SEM, NATM, SCL, EPBM, cut‑and‑cover
• 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 with 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 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 experience would be a plus)
• Demonstrated leadership, business…