Tunnel Head - Technical and Strategic Leader for Tunneling Operations

Tunnel Head

Strategic & Technical Leadership

• Provide overall technical authority and leadership for all tunneling activities, including EPB TBM drives, cross passages, shafts, and associated underground works.
• Define tunneling strategies, methodologies, and sequencing optimized for mixed ground and hard?rock conditions.
• Ensure alignment between design intent, construction methodology, and site execution.
• Lead decision?making for complex geotechnical, operational, and TBM performance challenges.

Management of Multi?TBM Operations

• Oversee the simultaneous operation of multiple EPB TBMs, ensuring productivity, reliability, and safety.
• Review and approve TBM performance parameters, ground conditioning strategies, cutterhead interventions, and recovery plans.
• Monitor key KPIs related to advance rates, downtime, consumptions, and machine utilization.

Safety, Quality & Risk Management

• Establish and enforce a strong safety culture across all tunneling operations, aligned with international underground construction standards.
• Ensure effective identification, assessment, and mitigation of geotechnical and construction risks.
• Oversee compliance with quality assurance systems, segment installation standards, and ground control requirements.
• Provide leadership during critical activities such as hyperbaric interventions and emergency situations.

Contractual, Commercial & Stakeholder Interface

• Support project management in contractual administration, claims, and change management related to tunneling works.
• Interface with Client, PMC, Designers, TBM suppliers, and specialist subcontractors at senior level.
• Contribute to cost control, forecasting, and schedule recovery strategies.

Leadership & Capability Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop a diverse, multinational tunneling team, including STMs and TSMs.
• Transfer international best practices and lessons learned to strengthen local project capability.
• Promote effective communication, collaboration, and performance discipline across shifts and departments.

Key Skills and Competencies

• Extensive expertise in EPB TBM tunneling, preferably in urban metro environments.
• Strong experience in mixed?ground and hard?rock conditions, including complex geological interfaces.
• Proven ability to manage large, multi?machine tunneling programs.
• Hands?on experience with hyperbaric works, geotechnical risk management, and TBM performance optimization.
• Deep understanding of international tunneling standards, HSE systems, and quality management frameworks.
• Excellent leadership, decision?making, and cross?cultural communication skills.