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Tunnelling Technical Director/ Team Lead

Birmingham, gb🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-02-18 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead the Tunnelling and Underground Structures team in Birmingham, managing design projects for major rail and transit agencies while driving business development and technical delivery.

Role type

Senior Technical Director / Team Lead

Builds

Tunnelling and underground structures for transportation, energy, and utility schemes

Domain

Civil Engineering / Geotechnical Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure

Required skills

Tunnelling team leadership, rock and soft ground engineering, multi-disciplinary project management, commercial proposal development, safety culture management, stakeholder relationship building

Preferred skills

Chartered Engineer status, post-graduate experience in leadership roles, experience with deep excavations and shafts

Technologies

None explicitly listed

Responsibilities

Ensure safety culture and performance across office and site operations, coordinate work winning and business development activities, lead production of proposals for new commissions, define and influence workplace culture, foster collaboration and inclusive environment

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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