Chartered/Senior Tunnel Engineer

AtkinsRéalis; The Wells; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in the UK is looking for enthusiastic chartered/senior engineers specialized in tunnelling. The ideal candidates will have a solid academic background and proven project management experience in engineering consultancy. Key responsibilities include assisting with strategic bids and mentoring early career team members. This role offers flexible and remote working options to maintain work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible working policy

Inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• Chartered status in civil or structural engineering is a requirement.
• Proven tunnelling design experience in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience with numerical modelling software for dynamic soil-structure interaction.

Responsibilities

• Assisting the Tunneling team with strategic bids.
• Developing business contacts in tunnelling.
• Mentoring early career team members.

Skills

Technical project management

Interpersonal skills

Tunnelling design experience

Report writing

Education

MSc or equivalent in civil or structural engineering

Tools

FLAC

PLAXIS

Robot

STAAD

Revit

Job description

Our specialist Tunnelling team works across a range of engineering disciplines and applies advanced analysis techniques, combined with practical design, operational and site experience. We provide support to Clients throughout the project life cycle, from the planning and feasibility stages through to commissioning, operation, refurbishment and upgrade of tunnel infrastructure. We are a close-knit specialist team, and we love what we do. We work hard to ensure an inclusive and mutually respectful environment which fosters collaboration and innovation. Our open mindset unlocks creativity and helps us to deliver better outcomes both for our clients and the users of the infrastructure we design. We love challenges, and routinely explore new ways of delivering value. Why work for AtkinsRéalis? We're ranked as one of LinkedIn's Top 25 Companies, where UK professionals want to work and stay once, they join. We've also made the Times Top 50 employers for women. Our Infrastructure team uses innovation, new approaches and the power of data to help our clients deliver end-to-end projects and programmes for essential future infrastructure. And as the work becomes ever more complex, our employees continue to challenge the status quo. We're committed to engineering better for people and our planet, from our global Engineering Net-Zero programme to creating social value through EDAROTH community housing. We’re proud of our active employee networks creating awareness and allyship for our under-represented groups. Not to mention programmes supporting communities outside AtkinsRéalis, including schools, charities, ex‑forces and professionals returning after career breaks.

• Candidates should have the right flare and ability that will help us develop and expand our tunnelling capability. We want to build on the existing portfolio of our rapidly expanding, flexible and outward looking team that can tackle work across a broad spectrum of sectors.
• We are looking for enthusiastic chartered/senior engineers with a proven technical and project management track record.
• Assisting the Tunneling team with strategic bids.
• Developing your own network of business contacts to contribute to the growth of the Tunnelling disciplines.
• Integrating the team to our technical discipline and market leads.
• Mentoring of early career team members.

Candidates should have:

• A good academic background with a degree (ideally MSc or equivalent) with Chartered status in civil or structural engineering (is a requirement).
• Excellent interpersonal and technical skills and the ability to develop and lead tunnelling design teams.
• Project management - experience and understanding of the needs and approaches to the engineering consultancy and design markets, including relationships with clients, work planning and commercial management.
• Proven tunnelling design experience in a fast-moving engineering consultancy environment and advanced constitutive soil models and experience of numerical modelling software (FLAC or PLAXIS). Use in relation to dynamic soil‑structure interaction problems would be a benefit.
• Proven experience using advanced structural analysis and experience of numerical modelling software (Robot or STAAD). Use in relation to BIM‑integrated workflows to exchange data with Revit would be a benefit.
• Application of CDM Regulations. Excellent communication skills and confidence to liaise with clients.
• Excellent report writing skills with the ability to self‑check and produce accurate work. A willingness to travel on short assignments both within the UK and overseas.

We’re passionate about what we do, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Simply put, this a great place to be. So, when it comes to your life outside of work, ask us about our flexible and remote working policies designed to help you get the most out of life. Tunnels and underground structures form an increasingly critical part of modern‑day infrastructure. This infrastructure provides economic, societal and environmental benefits through the facilitation of efficient and rapid movement of people below‑ground. This may be in mass transit systems, high‑speed rail lines or in highway tunnels. We are expanding our team to meet growing demands from our extensive Client base, particularly in the infrastructure and energy sectors. Current areas of demand include nuclear new build, carbon capture & storage, renewable energy (hydropower), and other low carbon engineering. At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world‑class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.