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Senior Geotechnical Tunnelling Engineer

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Job Title: Senior Geotechnical Tunnelling Engineer

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Geotechnical Tunnelling Engineer to join our team at Knight Piésold Consulting. As a key member of our design team, you will be responsible for providing technical design and engineering expertise for underground projects.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Design management, resource management, budget/cost control, and design quality control.
  • Tender and detailed design of portals, access adits, tunnels, and intersections, ventilation shafts, and other underground structures.
  • Supervise junior engineers and engineering geologists.
  • Prepare and review sections of the Geotechnical Baseline Report.
  • Prepare and review various sections of the Geotechnical Interpretive Report.
  • Review Geological Factual Report, site investigation plan, and in-situ and laboratory tests plan.
  • Undertake numerical analysis; provide geotechnical suggestions for tunnel concrete lining design, design parameters, and load cases; prepare and/or review design reports and calculations.
  • Prepare and review tender and construction drawings for the underground works.
  • Compile Tender documents/Contract documents, Project Specifications, measurement and payment items, and bills of quantity for various sections, tunnel excavation, and support.
Requirements:
  • BSc. Eng/B Eng (Civil) and professionally registered at an internationally accredited engineering council/body, PrEng preferred.
  • Minimum 15 years of experience in hard rock mechanics, detailed design, and construction supervision of large tunnels and underground structures.
  • Familiar with FIDIC Emerald book and Red book contract forms.
  • Familiar with International design guidelines and technical specifications, i.e., ASTM, BS, Eurocode, SANS, IS, Austrian standard (ÖNORM), ISRM, ITA.
  • Proficient in soil/rock mechanics and tunnel geotechnical design.
  • Ground investigation studies, rock lab, and rock in-situ testing, interpretation, and preparing GFR and GIR.
  • Proficient in geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring, back analysis, and interpretation of data; laboratory and in-situ rock/soil tests, and Hydrofracture stress measurement in-situ test.
  • Proficient in NATM design and CCM, design of tunnel primary lining and support/final lining using analytical and numerical methods, i.e., CCM (convergence confinement method) and FEM (Finite Element Method); assessment of various ground behaviors and prediction of system behavior and support utilization; design of tunnel intersections/junctions.
  • Proficient in numerical analysis, finite/distinct element methods, plane strain/axisymmetric, and hardening/softening material properties.
  • Proficient in tunnel portal design and slope stability analysis-LEM & FEM-strength reduction method.
  • Experience in hard rock TBM geotechnical design and TBM penetration prediction models.
  • Experience with TPC TBM software, Tunnelsuit, Tilos, 3GSM software AutoCAD, and Civil 3D is a must.
  • Must know Rock Mechanics/Geotechnics software, Plaxis 2D/3D, Rocscience (Phase2, Unwedge, Swedge, RocPlane Slide, etc), and Flac 2D.
  • A valid driver's license is required.

If you possess the above requirements and are looking to work with an exceptional technical team, please send your detailed CV and motivation letter to our Talent Acquisition Specialist, Odessa Chinasamy, at Knight Piésold Consulting.

Due to the expected volume of applications, we will only respond to shortlisted candidates.