Tunnel Practice Lead

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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

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a strategic and technical expert. This person will drive our tunnel practice focusing on execution, supervision and planning of various tunneling projects and will support teams in managing client relationships. Regular travel can be expected to support project execution, ongoing business development endeavors and to meet with internal and external stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications