Tunnel Operations and Maintenance Head

Tunnel Head

1. Operations Planning & Coordination

• Oversee TBM procurement, assembly, commissioning, and launch sequences.
• Develop daily and weekly work plans, coordinating with civil, mechanical, electrical, slurry, and survey teams.
• Liaise with subcontractors, OEMs, geotechnical experts, and project engineers. 

2. Technical Oversight

• Monitor all TBM components: cutter head, main drive, slurry pumps, screw conveyors, segment erector, gantries.
• Ensure cutter head interventions in hyperbaric and standard conditions. 
• Supervise slurry circuit—pressure, flow, pipelines, mucking—and manage surface slurry treatment. 

3. Performance & Maintenance

• Implement preventive and corrective maintenance regimes to maximize TBM uptime. 
• Maintain critical spares, consumables, and liaise with OEM support for troubleshooting. 
• Track KPIs: advance rate, downtime, slurry consumption, cutter wear.

4. Safety & Quality Compliance

• Enforce safety protocols (e.g., lockout/tagout, confined space, slurry pressure safety). 
• Conduct regular safety inspections, toolbox talks; handle emergencies and evacuations. 
• Ensure excavation quality—for cutter alignment, over-excavation control, slurry pressure—to protect tunnel face integrity. 

5. Team Leadership & Training

• Manage, mentor, and supervise multidisciplinary crews including engineers, foremen, pump/electric/mechanical operators. 
• Recruit and train TBM team members; supervise performance, coordinate tasks, and ensure efficiency.

6. Reporting & Documentation

• Maintain daily logs: progress, breakdowns, maintenance, safety incidents, slurry metrics. 
• Prepare weekly summaries, technical evaluations, deviation notices, and liaise with senior management.