In-the-Tunnel Engineer

Boring Company; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Boring Company is seeking a Tunnel Engineer to own one or two TBM subsystems and support equipment, ensuring reliability and availability for production. You will troubleshoot field issues, analyze downtime drivers, and report subsystem health to guide improvements.

The role involves hands-on work in underground environments and collaboration with operations teams. You will investigate recurring failures, optimize maintenance procedures, and participate in upgrades to increase safety and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field.
• Experience supporting, troubleshooting, maintaining, or improving heavy equipment or production systems.
• Ownership mindset with ability to become the technical owner of subsystems.
• Use of data, maintenance history and operator feedback to identify trends and drive corrective actions.
• Hands-on field work in industrial or underground environments, including shift work as needed.

Responsibilities

• Own one or two tunnel boring machine or support equipment subsystems and act as the primary engineering contact.
• Troubleshoot equipment issues, resolve downtime drivers, and support operations to keep systems running.
• Investigate recurring failures and performance trends using field data and operator feedback.
• Own subsystem reporting on health, downtime drivers, failure modes, and improvement priorities.
• Review and improve maintenance procedures, guides, and documentation for owned subsystems.
• Lead or support equipment upgrades and cross-functional improvement projects.

Skills

Hands-on field experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Civil Engineering, or related technical field

Job description

The Boring Company was founded to solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic by creating an underground network of tunnels. Today, we are creating the technology to increase tunneling speed and decrease costs by a factor of 10 or more with the ultimate goal of making Hyperloop adoption viable and enabling rapid transit across densely populated regions.

Tunnel Engineers support machine and boring operations by taking ownership of one or two critical tunnel boring machine or support equipment subsystems. This hands-on role is responsible for keeping assigned subsystems reliable, maintainable, and available for production through field troubleshooting, maintenance support, performance monitoring, technical reporting, procurement of spares, consumables, and upgrade parts, and equipment improvement work. The engineer will identify failure modes, address maintenance needs, improve procedures, support system upgrades, and minimize downtime to keep tunneling operations running safely and efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Own one or two tunnel boring machine or support equipment subsystems, serving as the primary engineering point of contact for subsystem performance, reliability, maintenance support, and reporting.
• Support daily tunneling operations by troubleshooting equipment issues, resolving downtime drivers, and working closely with operations and maintenance teams to keep systems running.
• Investigate recurring failures, abnormal performance trends, and maintenance issues using field observations, equipment data, downtime history, and operator feedback.
• Own subsystem-specific reporting, including system health, downtime drivers, failure modes, corrective actions, open issues, and reliability improvement priorities.
• Review and improve maintenance procedures, troubleshooting guides, inspection checklists, operating practices, and technical documentation for owned subsystems.
• Lead or support equipment upgrades, modifications, testing, and cross-functional improvement projects to increase reliability, maintainability, safety, and production efficiency.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Civil Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience supporting, troubleshooting, maintaining, or improving mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, controls, heavy equipment, or production systems.
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to become the technical owner for one or more equipment subsystems.
• Ability to use data, maintenance history, field observations, and operator feedback to identify trends, solve problems, and drive corrective actions.
• Comfortable working hands-on in field, industrial, construction, underground, or production environments, including rotating shifts or off-shift support as needed