Tunnel Practice Lead
🔍 United States, Nebraska, Omaha
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HDR has an immediate career opportunity for a Tunnel Practice Lead with a focus on hydraulic tunnel engineering and will be responsible for leading HDR’s risk awareness and management of the WBG tunneling portfolio, influencing the firm’s geotechnical and tunneling/underground engineering practice, and participating in the development and implementation of HDR’s strategic direction for our tunneling practice. The selected candidate will also lead overall quality control, manage project delivery risk and participate in HDR’s go/no go process during the project pursuit phase.
The Tunnel Practice Lead will work to assemble/leverage existing capabilities to enhance HDR’s tunneling capabilities to provide service to external and internal clients in primary and secondary focus areas including:
- 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 Transportation Business Group Practice Lead and 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
- 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
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