Tunnel Ventilation Engineer

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Tunnels and underground structures form an increasingly important part of modern-day infrastructure. This infrastructure provides economic, societal, and environmental benefits through the facilitation of the efficient and rapid movement of people below-ground. This may be in mass transit systems, high-speed rail lines or in highway tunnels.

As a tunnel ventilation engineer, you will:

• Design and analyse tunnel ventilation systems for both normal and emergency operations.
• Assess the related elements such as fire and life safety systems following client specifications and worldwide standards.
• Work on a range of underground facilities and tunnels, including metro systems, railway stations, road tunnels, cable tunnels and more.
• Plan, design and install ventilation systems for tunnel projects.
• Ensure tunnels are safe through various systems.
• Plan and oversee commissioning, operation, refurbishment, and upgrade of tunnel infrastructure.
• Conduct on-site inspection and performance testing of tunnel ventilation systems.
• Apply fluid mechanics and thermodynamics for fire and ventilation modelling.
• Implement fire safety engineering, risk analysis and evacuation analysis.

We are looking for:

• Good experience in engineering road and rail tunnel ventilation design, fire and life-safety design, gained in road, rail and/or metro tunneling schemes.
• Excellent technical skills and numeracy skills acquired during your academic background.
• Understanding of fire dynamics, heat transfer and smoke behaviour principles in enclosed environments.
• Advanced user of 1D design tools such as IDA for Road and SES for rail.
• Computational Fluid Dynamics modelling and visualisation using programs such as FDS, Pyrosis and Smoke view or others.
• Movement Modelling Analysis evacuation and crowd simulations using computational models such as Pathfinder.
• Up to date knowledge of current legislation and standards applicable in tunnel ventilation design.
• Demonstrating technical expertise, providing in-depth knowledge whilst proactively coaching and developing graduate/early career professionals.
• High motivation to succeed, and to progress and develop your career.
• Personality compatible with a high degree of collaborative and teamwork in multi-disciplinary and international projects.
• Communication and writing skills which can produce clear and concise reports or presentations.
• Willingness to travel on short assignments within the UK and overseas for dealing with challenging projects or participation in reputed conferences.

Why work for AtkinsRéalis? We are ranked as one of LinkedIn's Top 25 Companies, where UK professionals want to work and stay once they join. We have also made the Times Top 50 employers for women. Our Infrastructure team uses innovation, new approaches and the power of data to help our clients deliver end-to-end projects and programmes for essential future infrastructure. As the work becomes ever more complex, our employees continue to challenge the status quo. We are committed to engineering better for people and our planet, from our global Engineering Net-Zero programme to creating social value through EDAROTH community housing. We are proud of our active employee networks creating awareness and allyship for our under-represented groups. Not to mention programmes supporting communities outside AtkinsRéalis, including schools, charities, ex-forces and professionals returning after career breaks. At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.