Tunnel Head

1. Operations Planning & Coordination

• Oversee TBM procurement, assembly, commissioning, and launch sequences.
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• Develop daily and weekly work plans, coordinating with civil, mechanical, electrical, slurry, and survey teams.
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• Liaise with subcontractors, OEMs, geotechnical experts, and project engineers.
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2. Technical Oversight

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• Monitor all TBM components: cutter head, main drive, slurry pumps, screw conveyors, segment erector, gantries.
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• Ensure cutter head interventions in hyperbaric and standard conditions.
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• Supervise slurry circuit—pressure, flow, pipelines, mucking—and manage surface slurry treatment.
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3. Performance & Maintenance

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• Implement preventive and corrective maintenance regimes to maximize TBM uptime.
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• Maintain critical spares, consumables, and liaise with OEM support for troubleshooting.
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• Track KPIs: advance rate, downtime, slurry consumption, cutter wear.
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4. Safety & Quality Compliance

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• Enforce safety protocols (e.g., lockout/tagout, confined space, slurry pressure safety).
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• Conduct regular safety inspections, toolbox talks; handle emergencies and evacuations.
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• Ensure excavation quality—for cutter alignment, over-excavation control, slurry pressure—to protect tunnel face integrity.
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5. Team Leadership & Training

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• Manage, mentor, and supervise multidisciplinary crews including engineers, foremen, pump/electric/mechanical operators.
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• Recruit and train TBM team members; supervise performance, coordinate tasks, and ensure efficiency.
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6. Reporting & Documentation

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• Maintain daily logs: progress, breakdowns, maintenance, safety incidents, slurry metrics.
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• Prepare weekly summaries, technical evaluations, deviation notices, and liaise with senior management.