LNT/CTM/1718221

- HCI-Heavy Civil Infrastructure
- Chennai

- Posted On 02 May 2026

- End Date 29 Oct 2026

- Required Experience20 - 30 years

Skills

Knowledge & Posting Location

TBM & Tunnel (Civil) TBM & Tunnel (Electrical) TBM & Tunnel

Minimum Qualification

Bachelors Program Civil Engineering

Job Description

Strategic & Technical Leadership

- Provide overall technical authority and leadership for all tunneling activities, including EPB TBM drives, cross passages, shafts, and associated underground works.
- Define tunneling strategies, methodologies, and sequencing optimized for mixed ground and hard?rock conditions.
- Ensure alignment between design intent, construction methodology, and site execution.
- Lead decision?making for complex geotechnical, operational, and TBM performance challenges.

Management of Multi?TBM Operations

- Oversee the simultaneous operation of multiple EPB TBMs, ensuring productivity, reliability, and safety.
- Review and approve TBM performance parameters, ground conditioning strategies, cutterhead interventions, and recovery plans.
- Monitor key KPIs related to advance rates, downtime, consumptions, and machine utilization.

Safety, Quality & Risk Management

- Establish and enforce a robust safety culture across all tunneling operations, aligned with international underground construction standards.
- Ensure effective identification, assessment, and mitigation of geotechnical and construction risks.
- Oversee compliance with quality assurance systems,



segment installation standards, and ground control requirements.
- Provide leadership during critical activities such as hyperbaric interventions and emergency situations.

Contractual, Commercial & Stakeholder Interface

- Support project management in contractual administration, claims, and change management related to tunneling works.
- Interface with Client, PMC, Designers, TBM suppliers, and specialist subcontractors at senior level.
- Contribute to cost control, forecasting, and schedule recovery strategies.

Leadership & Capability Development

- Lead, mentor, and develop a diverse, multinational tunneling team, including STMs and TSMs.
- Transfer international best practices and lessons learned to strengthen local project capability.
- Promote effective communication, collaboration, and performance discipline across shifts and departments.

Key Skills and Competencies

- Extensive expertise in EPB TBM tunneling, preferably in urban metro environments.
- Strong experience in mixed?ground and hard?rock conditions, including complex geological interfaces.
- Proven ability to manage large, multi?machine tunneling programs.
- Hands?on experience with hyperbaric works, geotechnical risk management, and TBM performance optimization.
- Deep understanding of international tunneling standards, HSE systems, and quality management frameworks.
- Excellent leadership, decision?making, and cross?cultural communication skills.

📌 Tunnel Head (India)
🏢 Larsen and Toubro
📍 India