Hill InternationalSenior Tunnel Construction Engineer
AI in this role
- Provide technical leadership and construction oversight for bored tunnels and underground cavern works.
- Ensure alignment with client's standards for safety, quality, sustainability, and digital delivery.
- Maintain program, cost, and operational objectives throughout the underground works lifecycle.
- Oversee TBM excavation, cavern construction, breakthrough, decommissioning, and site demobilization.
- Work closely with the PMC/client team, design consultants, and construction contractors.
- Manage contractor governance and construction risk.
- Coordinate temporary works and demobilization processes.
- Ensure environmental compliance in large-scale projects.
- Stay updated with ITA guidelines, Saudi Arabia Codes, Eurocodes, and NEOM requirements.
- Bachelors' degree in Civil, Mining, or Tunnelling Engineering.
- Minimum 15 years of experience in bored tunnel and underground cavern construction.
- Demonstrated expertise in TBM tunnelling (EPB, slurry, or hard rock) and cavern construction (SEM/NATM or drill & blast).
- Experience in TBM breakthrough and decommissioning.
- Prior experience in PMC, EPC, or client-side roles is preferred.
- Advanced knowledge of TBM operations, recovery, and dismantling.
- Strong understanding of underground logistics, heavy lifting operations, and ground control systems.
- Familiarity with construction risk, contract interfaces, and temporary works processes.
- Knowledge of environmental compliance standards for large-scale projects.
- Excellent leadership, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.
How we rate this
Senior Tunnel Construction Engineer at Hill International rates 38 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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