Senior Tunnelling Engineer

Overview

As a Senior Tunnelling Engineer at AECOM, you will lead design elements for major tunnelling projects within a global infrastructure portfolio. You will collaborate with clients and the design team to drive robust, compliant solutions from concept through to delivery. The role challenges you to mentor junior engineers and shape project budgets and schedules. You’ll work on high-profile tunnels like Snowdonia Cable Tunnel and London Power Tunnels, contributing to sustainable, large-scale infrastructure. This is a chance to influence critical underground projects and grow within a supportive, innovative culture.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working model
• career development opportunities
• AECOM University
• volunteering days
• well-being programs
• global collaboration

Responsibilities

• Act as Design Lead for project elements, coordinating with clients and design team under guidance from Technical Lead
• Mentor and manage junior engineers in infrastructure design
• Contribute to development of engineering budget and programme to meet project requirements

Key requirements

• Degree level in Civil or Civil & Structural Engineering (Bachelors or higher)
• MSc/MEng in Soil Mechanics/Geotechnical/Tunnelling Engineering (or working towards)
• Professional membership (targeted)
• Experience as a designer in Reinforced Concrete to Eurocodes for underground structures (secant piles, capping beams, segmental shaft linings, in situ concrete elements, D-Walls, shafts, tunnels)
• Familiarity with geotechnical engineering principles and soil-structure interaction

• Leadership and people management
• Client liaison and communication
• Collaborative teamwork
• Tunnelling and underground works design
• Reinforced concrete design to Eurocodes
• Geotechnical engineering principles, soil-structure interaction

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