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Do you want to help shape the transport networks of the future and contribute to some of the most challenging tunnels and infrastructure projects in Denmark and internationally? Would you like to be part of a large, highly skilled team of tunnel and geotechnical experts and have the opportunity to contribute to important projects? If so, we would like to hear from you.\nCOWI is a global consulting group that delivers innovative and sustainable solutions to complex challenges within transport, energy, environment, water, industry, buildings, and urban planning. Together with our 7,500 skilled employees, we advance engineering design worldwide.\nOur geotechnical and tunnel engineering team in Denmark consists of more than 120 highly skilled professionals and offers a full range of high-level skills within geotechnical engineering and tunnel design. Combined with solid local presence and international experience, this enables us to take on some of the world's most challenging infrastructure projects.\nWe work across a broad range of disciplines, contributing to projects including highways, metros, railways, bridges, tunnels, buildings, stormwater systems, energy infrastructure, and ground investigations. We cover all phases of the project lifecycle - from concept and design to construction, supervision, operation, and maintenance.\nCreate the solutions that will enable a better tomorrow\nAs a Senior Tunnel Engineer, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality solutions as part of a highly professional team providing consultancy, design, and project management services.\nYour responsibilities will include:\nTaking technical ownership of tunnel and underground structures design scopes, ensuring robust engineering solutions across all project phases.\nLeading the design and review of TBM tunnel systems, segmental lining design, launch and reception arrangements, and construction methodologies.\nContributing to the planning and design of NATM/SEM tunnels, temporary and permanent support systems, excavation sequences, and risk mitigation measures.\nLeading and reviewing rock engineering assessments, including rock mass characterization, excavation support design, rock reinforcement systems, stability analyses for rock slopes and underground openings, and construction risk assessments.\nCoordinating multidisciplinary interfaces between civil, structural, geotechnical, MEP, and construction teams.\nProviding technical leadership, mentoring junior engineers, and conducting technical reviews to ensure high-quality project delivery.\nAssisting the tunnelling teams with strategic bids.\nPerforming and reviewing advanced engineering analyses, including numerical modelling and geotechnical assessments using industry-standard software.\nAdvancing to a technical point of contact for clients, contractors, authorities, and project stakeholders, communicating technical solutions, risks, and project opportunities clearly.\nYour skills. Our team. Together we design the future.\nYou are an experienced tunnel engineer with a solid technical background in underground construction, tunnelling methods and rock engineering. You take responsibility for your work, thrive in multidisciplinary project environments, and enjoy mentoring colleagues while delivering technically robust and buildable solutions.\nYou combine advanced analytical capabilities with practical construction understanding and have extensive experience in tunnel and underground infrastructure projects across soil and rock conditions, from feasibility and design through construction and commissioning.\nIn addition, you have:\nA Bachelor's, Master's, or equivalent degree in Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Rock Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related discipline.\nMinimum 10 years of experience in tunnel engineering, underground structures, and geotechnical engineering.\nPractical experience with TBM tunnelling projects, including tunnel lining design, construction methodology, and geotechnical interface management.\nExperience with NATM/SEM tunnelling, underground stations, caverns and temporary support systems.\nExperience leading/working in multidisciplinary design teams and coordinating complex technical interfaces.\nExperience and understanding of the needs and approaches to the engineering consultancy and design markets, including relationships with clients, work planning and commercial management.\nExtensive experience with numerical modelling and design software such as PLAXIS 2D/3D, FLAC, RS2/3, Rocscience, GeoStudio, or equivalent tools, with a clear understanding of their capabilities and limitations.\nStrong expertise in Eurocodes and other relevant industry standards.\nEffective report writing skills with the ability to self-check and produce accurate work.\nGood communication skills and confidence to liaise with clients. Danish language skills are considered an advantage.\nA place to work and so much more\nAt COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity - and sometimes even our courage - to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.\nWe value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.\nWith offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.\nGot more questions?\nIf you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Head of Discipline for Tunnels and Deep Excavations, Ganesh Kale, .\nGet to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.\nBefore you apply\nAll you need to include in your application is your CV - no photo or application letter. At an interview, you can tell us everything we need to know about why you’re interested in joining COWI. 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