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Senior Ground & Tunnel Engineer
AECOMSpainfull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 May 2025
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<h3>Company Description</h3><p><strong>Work with Us. Change the World.</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. 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.</p><p>We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.</p><p> </p><p><strong>About Enterprise Capabilities</strong></p><p>Enterprise Capabilities is a service-led organization within AECOM enabling access to a global talent pool. With offices in India, China, Spain, Poland, Romania, South Africa and the Philippines, our teams of technical professionals provide around the clock project support helping AECOM teams around the world to deliver faster, smarter and better. EC supports AECOM’s ability to work as one global team by standardizing design processes, deploying collaboration technologies, and utilizing a connected network of technical expertise. By joining EC, you have the unique opportunity to work on AECOM’s monumental projects located around the world, contributing to our mission of delivering a better world. Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p>We are currently recruiting a <strong>Senior Ground and Tunnelling Engineer</strong>, to be based in the Spain Enterprise Capabilities Office in Madrid. This position offers a flexible hybrid work arrangement, incorporating a combination of both in-office and remote working schedules”, as outlined below.</p><p>The selected candidate will join our busy and expanding experienced team. The team provides assessment, concept, feasibility, preliminary and detailed designs on a wide range of Transportation and Water Projects across the globe. Our internal clients work for private and public sector and include long term Framework Agreements with numerous Local Authorities together with Design and Build commissions for many major Contractors.</p><p>Our group has an established track record of successfully delivering design packages for many years, throughout the USA and Australia, not to mention Canada or Middle East. You may have the opportunity to work on some of the most iconic Transportation projects, being part of a diverse and multicultural team.</p><p>The responsibilities of this role include:</p><ul><li>Works as part of a ground and tunnelling engineering team with other engineers at the same functional level that can be from different EC offices (Poland, Spain, India..).</li><li>Performs specific and moderate portions of a broader assignment of an experienced engineer.</li><li>Gathers and correlates basic engineering data using established and well-defined procedures.</li><li>Works on detailed or routine engineering assignments involving calculations and relatively simple tests.</li><li>Proposes approach to solve new problems encountered using modifications of standard procedures or methods developed in previous assignements.</li><li>Identifies discrepancies in results.</li><li>Provides guidance to entry level engineers.</li><li>Performs work in accordance with agreed upon budget and schedule with little supervision.</li><li>Independently performs all the tasks necessary to complete primary design elements for engineering works.</li><li>Performance at this level requires developmental experience in a professional position.</li></ul><p> </p><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><strong>Minimum Requirements</strong></p><ul><li>Proven track record of working on ground and tunneling engineering designs and collaborating with international and multi-cultural teams (+8 years) for Transportation and Water Projects.</li><li>Experience with international regulations and standards.</li><li>Proficiency in the use of specific ground engineering and tunnelling software as Geoestudio / Plaxis (2D/3D) / Rocscience. Others as FLAC / Midas GTS NX will be considered favorably.</li><li>Experience in the design of C&C tunnels and shafts</li><li>The candidate should be familiarized with retaining and ground improvement systems. Experience on tunnelling construction methods will be considered favorably.</li><li>Proven commitment with Quality Control Policy and Quality Management System.</li><li>Experience working in the North America region / Australia will be considered favorably.</li><li>Fluent in Eng
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