Job Title: Senior Tunnel Manager
Overview:
We are seeking an accomplished Senior Tunnel Manager with a minimum of 15 years of skilled experience, including at least 10 years in Hydel and/or Metro tunnelling projects. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership and strategic oversight for complex underground infrastructure projects, ensuring secure, economical, and constructible tunnel solutions. This role involves managing multidisciplinary teams, interfacing with clients and authorities, and guiding projects from concept through construction and commissioning.

Responsibilities
Provide overall technical leadership and management for tunnelling projects, including hydropower tunnels, metro tunnels, shafts, caverns, cross passages, and associated underground structures.
Lead and review geotechnical and tunnel design activities, including ground characterization, rock mass classification, support philosophy, lining systems, and construction methodology selection.
Oversee and approve design basis reports, calculations, drawings, and technical specifications,



ensuring compliance with project requirements, international standards, and best industry practices.
Guide the application and interpretation of advanced numerical modelling and analytical studies (FEA / FEM / FDM) for ground–structure interaction, construction staging, and risk-critical scenarios.
Manage and coordinate multidisciplinary teams comprising geotechnical, structural, construction, and BIM engineers to achieve integrated and optimized tunnel designs.
Lead geotechnical risk assessments, constructability reviews, and value engineering exercises, and develop mitigation measures for adverse ground conditions and geological uncertainties.
Provide strategic input on tunnelling methods (TBM, NATM / SEM, drill and blast, cut-and-cover) and temporary works in consultation with construction teams and contractors.
Act as the primary technical interface with clients, independent en

📌 Senior Tunnel Engineer Chennai
🏢 LT-Larsen & Toubro
📍 Chennai