Principal Engineer - Tunnelling & Underground Structures

AECOM; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development opportunities

Flexible hybrid working model

Technical practice networks

Volunteering days

Job summary

A leading global infrastructure consulting firm is seeking a Principal Tunnelling Engineer to join their team in the UK. This role involves leading design efforts on major tunnelling projects, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating directly with clients. Ideal candidates should have a degree in Civil or Structural Engineering and extensive experience in underground structures. The firm offers a flexible hybrid working model and a supportive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Broad experience as a designer in reinforced concrete to Eurocodes.
• Good familiarity with geotechnical engineering principles and soil-structure interaction.

Responsibilities

• Act as a Design Lead for project elements, liaising with clients.
• Manage junior engineers in the design of infrastructure elements.
• Provide input to project development.

Skills

Design Lead

Civil Engineering

Structural Engineering

Geotechnical Engineering

Education

Degree in Civil or Civil & Structural Engineering

MSc/MEng in Soil Mechanics/Geotechnical/Tunnelling Engineering

Job description

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We’re one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Are you ready to join a team of talented engineers and shape the future of Tunnelling & Underground Structures? If you want to work on some of the largest and most rewarding tunnelling projects, in a team with a best‑in‑class working culture, then we would love to hear from you!

AECOM provides a full range of tunnelling and underground structure design and management services serving clients in both the public and private sectors. We offer one‑stop access to services ranging across project and construction management, feasibility studies, concept, basic and detailed design, and risk management for all types of tunnelling and underground works.

We’re looking for a Principal Tunnelling Engineer to work on Major Civils projects of a tunnelling nature at all levels to join our teams across the UK. With an exciting and growing project portfolio, there is no better time to join us!

What can we offer?

You’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most rewarding Civil Infrastructure/Tunnelling projects across both the UK and abroad such as:

• Snowdonia Cable Tunnel
• London Power Tunnels
• Pumped Storage schemes for Electrical Power Generation
• Major Road tunnels

Although advertised as a full‑time role, part‑time options will also be considered.

Responsibilities

• Deliver: Act as a Design Lead for elements of a project, liaising directly with clients and the wider design team for day‑to‑day design development while being guided by a Technical Lead/mentor.
• Provide Expertise: Manage more junior engineers in the design of infrastructure elements.
• Deliver: Provide input to the project development.

Qualifications

• You are ideally educated to degree level in Civil or Civil & Structural Engineering, and/or have an MSc/MEng in Soil Mechanics/Geotechnical/Tunnelling Engineering, with or working towards a professional membership.
• You have broad experience as a designer in Reinforced Concrete to Eurocodes in relation to underground structures such as secant piles, capping beams, segmental shaft linings, in‑situ concrete structural elements, D‑Walls, shafts and tunnels.
• As a Civil or Structural Engineer you have good familiarity of Geotechnical Engineering principles as they apply to soil‑structure interaction.

Benefits

And let’s not forget about the perks at AECOM. You’ll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well‑being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work‑life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Most employees also enjoy a wide array of compensation, benefits and well‑being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families.

Equal Opportunity

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. AECOM is a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long‑term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. If you require reasonable accommodation, please contact [e-mail].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.