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Senior Tunnel Design Engineer
City Hong Kong
Career Level
Category Tunnels
Description Job Description:
An important addition to our client’s Tunnel Design team the successful candidate would be working in a world leading engineering team supporting project dynamics and client's expectations. The Senior Tunnel Design Engineer would be a key team member and project lead (as necessary), focused on effective and reliable delivery with an additional focus on contribution, skill set and professional development.

Day-to-day responsibilities could include but not limited to:
• Project Management and coordination with other engineering disciplines including, Structural, environmental, mechanical and electrical engineers covering a range of project requirements from new build to modification, maintenance or refurbishment.
• Project scope dependent, potentially responsible for management of preliminary property protection (settlement) studies, Tunneling Methodology Report, cost estimates, feasibility studies, construction methods and coordination with systems and station consultants.
• Detailed design calculations and drawings for tunnel main bore and potential involvement in drawing productions, design feasibilities and interfaces between tunnels, shafts and ticket halls.
• Project dependent, manage numerical modelling analysis on the tunnel or underground works structure and related engineering.
• Support and potentially lead on Bid management assisting in tenders for a variety of Tunnel and underground work projects.
• Potential involvement in designing sprayed concrete lining, canopy tubes / spile canopy support, face support measures, lining footings, cross passage and niche junctions.
• Responsible for timely production and delivery of reliable design solutions, reports, specifications or drawings,
• Design engineering for preliminary and detailed design, horizontal alignment options, vertical alignment obstructions and predicted excavated material volumes.
• Become integral to the division’s operations and contribute to the business and the team’s technical development. Assist in the management of new graduate engineers supporting their development and capability.
• Comprehensive assessment of the structural condition of all the tunnel assets has been carried out.
• Carry out a feasibility study, looked at possible tunnelling methods and alignments
• Responsible for helping to organise, plan and execute many aspects of the assessment program including site testing and inspection, analysis, classification and reporting.

Candidate Specification:
Candidates will have relevant engineering qualifications and be chartered in an engineering discipline such as Tunnel / underground works. They will have design engineering experience and be able to demonstrate exceptional analytical, forecasting and Technical competences.

Successful Candidates are likely to have the following characteristics:

• Strong academic qualifications ideally a civil engineering (or equivalent) preferably with MEng or MA qualifications although not essential.
• Chartered engineer status is essential.
• Experience of working within a design consultancy on multiple concurrent commissions, and representing the company to clients.
• Design risk management, construction programming, tendering process and quality assurance management.
• Experience of project management processes, from feasibility and design through to construction and close-out.
• Experience of methods, tools and techniques for the design and assessment of tunnel designs supporting assessment to a range of project demands.
• Experience and knowledge of differing underground construction techniques including TBM bored tunnels, hand excavated tunnels, NATM and cut-and-cover works.
• Knowledge and experience in selection and design of tunnel linings in the construction of shafts and sprayed concrete lined tunnels preferably with UK design codes.
• Ideally detailed experience in structural design and understanding of basic soil or rock mechanics.
• Skills in structural engineering, geotechnics, and railway and metro engineering will all be highly valued and utilised.
• Ideally experience with both geotechnical and structural analysis programmes including CRISP, FLAC, Staad Pro.
• Good communication, team working and problem solving skills are essential.
• They should also have the necessary drive to achieve their goals and deliver commercial success.
• A personal drive to successfully conclude project specifics.

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