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Technical Director (Tunnels)

Technical Director (Tunnels)

COWI • London
29 days ago
Job type
  • Permanent
Job description

Technical Director (Tunnels)

Bristol / Derby / Glasgow / London / York

Permanent

Office/Home Hybrid Working

Do you want to design a more sustainable future? Can you lead on complex tunnel and underground space projects? Then, this could be the next adventure in your career.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow

We are looking for a Technical Director with extensive tunnelling expertise to be based at any of our UK offices. Working alongside our team of experts, you will be a tunnel design engineer, with a civil, structural, geotechnical engineering or engineering geology background working in the development of underground space, and will be able to lead on some complex and challenging projects.

Your role in our team will be to provide technical delivery leadership on projects, assist with business development activities and bids/tenders, act as client liaison and support the engineering teams involved on a variety of tunnelling and underground space projects. Where required, you'll act as the leader for technical elements of complex projects, giving advice to the client and their representatives whilst also overseeing, reviewing, and approving designs and monitoring progress.

Your key responsibilities will be:

  • Delivering highly complex technical expertise to concept through to design and construction of projects, with particular emphasis on soft ground and hard rock tunnelling.
  • Overseeing the technical management and delivery performance of a portfolio of projects
  • Ensuring that design, assessments and checking of assessments, designs and calculations are in accordance with the current industry standards, codes of practice, and company quality procedures.
  • Support in the management and coordination of work undertaken by external sub-contractors, designers and design checkers.
  • Planning and development of tunnelling expertise across the UK&I business.
  • Supporting the management of teams of engineers and engineering geologists.
  • Liaison with clients including identifying business development opportunities where appropriate.
  • Preparation of bids and tenders when required.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you’ll:

  • Hold a chartered status (CEng);
  • Possess extensive experience of design and construction in a consulting or contracting environment on tunnelling and underground space projects;
  • Demonstrate high level technical skills in the application of soil and rock mechanics, groundwater behaviour and soil / structure interaction in connection with shafts, large excavations, hard and soft ground tunnels, foundations;
  • Have several years experience working for D&B contractors or have experience of working closely with them as clients;
  • Be an accomplished team leader, with the ability to support, mentor and develop less experienced engineers.
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