Senior Engineer - Underground Structures

About the role

Egis Group is looking for a Senior Underground Design Engineer (minimum 10+ years of experience) who understands geotechnical and structural principles. The engineer plays a key role in designing underground structure projects, ensuring their integrity, safety and functionality, and contributes to infrastructure development.

Key responsibilities

• Take part in the planning, design and modification phases of projects and act as technical advisor to the team.
• Develop design procedures that lead to high-quality, cost-effective solutions.
• Take part in interdisciplinary reviews of project deliverables and in bids, estimating technical effort.
• Review design calculations and drawings for quality control.
• Prepare technical reports such as Technical Specifications and Design Basis reports.
• Ensure timely delivery of design outputs and track progress against timelines.
• Train and develop team members and help them optimise their daily design work.
• Lead design teams, handle multiple projects and work in diverse teams across locations.

Required profile

• Master of Engineering degree (or equivalent) in an appropriate engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in geotechnical engineering.
• Experience through the full life cycle of a design project in a highway or railway environment.
• Able to work in a diverse team across locations, solve problems and propose alternatives.

Required skills

• Complete design of underground structures (stations, shafts, cut-and-cover, TBM tunnels).
• Design of retaining structures such as diaphragm walls, secant piles and micro pile walls.
• Geotechnical assessments, stability, buoyancy, embedment and crack-width calculations.
• TBM tunnel design and interpretation of instrumentation and monitoring data.
• Software: PLAXIS 2D, Rocscience, Staad, Robot, Oasis.
• Application of Eurocodes and AASHTO design codes.