What Tunnels construction roles does Amundson Group recruit for?

We place every level of role in Tunnels construction: superintendents, project managers, estimators, chief estimators, foremen, general foremen, field engineers, project engineers, schedulers, surveyors, QC managers, and executive-level positions including VPs, Operations Directors, and Chief Estimators.

Which U.S. markets does Amundson Group cover for Tunnels construction?

We recruit nationally in Tunnels with deep Sun Belt focus including Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville. Our team specializes by role and territory, so a Tunnels search goes to a recruiter already inside that specific market.

How fast can Amundson Group fill a Tunnels construction role?

Our average time from brief to first qualified candidate is 7 hours. Field-level roles typically close in 2–4 weeks, mid-level roles in 3–6 weeks, and senior / executive roles in 6–10 weeks. Tunnels is one of our core specialties, so we maintain an active candidate bench.

Does Amundson Group offer retained search for Tunnels leadership roles?

Yes. Our retained search puts a first qualified resume in front of you in 7 hours on average and a vetted shortlist in 7 days. For senior Tunnels roles (Chief Estimator, VP Operations, Preconstruction Director, Operations Manager), retained search is typically the right path.

What makes Amundson Group different from other Tunnels recruiters?

Three differentiators: (1) we recruit exclusively in construction — our team is inside the industry all day, every day; (2) we specialize by role and geography, so every search is handled by a specialist; (3) we back our retained work with one named recruiter, a first qualified resume in 7 hours and a shortlist in 7 days. Veteran-owned, Inc. 5000 2024 and 2025.

What are current Tunnels construction salaries?

See our 2026 Construction Salary Guide and sector-specific salary reports. Salary ranges vary significantly by market, experience level, and employer size — our research team publishes updated benchmarks every quarter.

Tunnel Construction headhunters

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1,200+ construction placements to date for 250+ construction companies.

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Our average time from job intake to first qualified resume is 7 hours.

90,000+ Professionals in Network

We recruit from a network of 90,000+ construction professionals, most of them working today.

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1,200+

construction placements to date

7 Hours

Average time to resume

90,000+

construction professionals in our network

250+

construction companies served across the United States

About Us

The construction recruiter tunnel builders call first

Amundson Group recruits the leaders who deliver tunnel and underground work: superintendents, project managers, tunnel engineers, TBM and shaft specialists, schedulers and estimators for the contractors building it. We are construction-only, headquartered in Houston and placing nationwide, with 1,200+ construction placements to date, a network of 90,000+ construction professionals and an average of 7 hours from job intake to first qualified resume.

Tunnel Construction Headhunters

We place Tunnel Construction Professionals across a range of roles, including:

Project Controls

Track budgets, schedules, and resources so projects hit targets without surprises.

Fleet Services

Keep equipment moving, maintained, and cost‑effective so projects stay on schedule and on budget.

foremen

Keep crews moving, quality high, and the job site running smoothly every day.

Project MANAGEMENT team

Keep schedules tight, budgets intact, and crews firing on all cylinders.

Superintendents

Run the field, own the safety plan, and hit the milestones – every time.

Estimators

Nail the numbers so you win profitable work and protect your margins.

Survey Team

Lay out the groundwork with precision to keep every phase of construction on point.

Hse

Lead safety on site, protect crews, and make sure every job finishes without incident.

Field team

Solve technical challenges in real time to keep progress (and grade) on target.

Hiring for tunnel construction? Amundson Group is a construction-only recruiter. First qualified resumes in 7 hours. Send us the role or call (832) 558-7982.

Tunnel Construction Recruiting Resources

Salary Data

Where We Recruit

The tunnel work we recruit for

Pressurized face and open face tunnel boring machine drives for transit, water conveyance and combined sewer overflow tunnels.
Sequential excavation and conventional mined tunnels, shafts and cross passages, including the ground improvement that goes ahead of them.
Microtunneling, pipe jacking, auger boring and horizontal directional drilling for utility crossings under highways, rail and rivers.
Tunnel rehabilitation, lining and inspection programs for water, sewer and transit owners.
The shaft, portal, slurry and segment plant work that supports a drive, and the civil packages around it.

Tunnel construction is the smallest labor pool Amundson Group recruits in, and the one where the right person matters most: a tunnel superintendent who has brought a machine through bad ground, or a shift engineer who has run the survey and guidance on a drive, cannot be trained up in a season. The firm’s placement record in heavy civil, water and wastewater and underground utility construction is where most of its tunnel candidates come from, because those are the companies that build tunnels, and the 90,000+ professional network reaches the people who have moved from drive to drive across the country.

The roles we fill on a tunnel job

Tunnel superintendents and general superintendents, project managers and project executives, tunnel and shift engineers, project engineers, estimators and chief estimators who price mined and trenchless work, schedulers, safety managers with underground experience, quality managers, surveyors and guidance specialists, equipment and plant managers, and the foremen and crew leads who run a shift. Hourly tunnel crews are placed alongside the salaried seats when a client asks. Every role is construction; Amundson Group does not recruit outside it.

What tunnel contractors are paying at placement

Amundson Group’s Construction Placement Pay Index reports the base salary its placements were hired at across every sector it serves. The October 2026 release puts the national median at $112,500 for a project manager, $112,200 for a superintendent, $93,340 for a project engineer, $87,200 for a foreman and $118,750 for an estimator. Tunnel seats sit at the upper end of those ranges for the same title, because the pool is small and the drives are long, and most tunnel roles carry per diem or a rotation on top of base. The index publishes a role only with 9 or more placements in the window, so it reports the market as a whole rather than a tunnel cut; the live index carries every figure that clears the bar.

How a tunnel search runs

Intake the same day: the drive, the machine or method, the ground, the schedule, the pay and travel terms.
First qualified resumes in 7 hours on average, from people with a completed drive behind them, drawn from the firm’s placement record and targeted outreach.
A vetted shortlist within 7 days: every candidate interviewed by a recruiter who speaks the trade, underground experience checked against the job rather than the resume, references confirmed.
Interviews around the shift pattern, an offer built to close, a check in after mobilization.

Fees are agreed before the search starts and are owed only when you hire. Because tunnel talent travels, the firm screens for rotation, per diem and relocation terms before a resume reaches you, and it is honest when a candidate will not move for the job.

Where the tunnel work is

Transit and water tunnels in the large coastal and Great Lakes cities, combined sewer overflow programs across the Midwest and Northeast, water conveyance and storage tunnels in the Southwest and Texas, and the utility crossings that every highway, rail and pipeline program needs. Amundson Group is headquartered in Houston and recruits for tunnel work nationwide from there, as it does for the heavy civil, rail and wastewater programs the same contractors build.

Questions we hear on this market

Which tunnel construction roles are hardest to fill?

Tunnel superintendents and shift engineers with a completed tunnel boring machine drive behind them, and estimators who can price mined and trenchless work. The pool is a few thousand people nationally, and most are already on a drive, so the search is a matter of knowing who is finishing when.

Do you place hourly tunnel crews or only salaried staff?

Both. Superintendents, engineers, project managers and estimators are the core of the firm’s tunnel placements, and crews, operators and foremen are placed alongside them when a client asks for a shift.

Do tunnel construction roles pay more than other heavy civil work?

For the same title, tunnel seats sit at the upper end of the ranges in the Placement Pay Index, where the national median superintendent placement is $112,200 and the median project manager is $112,500, and most tunnel roles add per diem or a rotation on top of base.

How quickly can Amundson Group staff a tunnel project?

First qualified resumes in 7 hours on average and a vetted shortlist within 7 days per role, with travel and rotation terms confirmed before you see a resume.