Senior Rock Mechanics Engineer Mining

Lead rock mechanics studies for WSP from Vancouver, Calgary, or Saskatoon, applying geotechnical expertise to underground and open pit mining projects.
As a Senior Rock Mechanics Engineer, you will provide technical leadership within WSP's Mine Stability and Water team. You will address geotechnical challenges across mining life cycles, from early studies through operations. Your work will support excavation stability, risk management, and resilient operations.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead rock mechanics and geotechnical studies across mining projects
Develop characterization, design criteria, support recommendations, and stability assessments
Guide kinematic, empirical, and numerical analyses for client decisions
Lead field programs, monitoring, testing, and laboratory interpretation
Manage scope, budgets, schedules, deliverables, and technical quality
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in mining, geological, geotechnical, or related engineering
Professional Engineer designation or Canadian registration eligibility
Eight-plus years of rock mechanics or mining geotechnical experience
Underground mining experience and geotechnical risk management capability
Numerical modelling experience using RS2, RS3, FLAC3D, EX3, or Rocscience
Apply rock mass characterization, stability analysis, and technical leadership to advance safer mining projects with WSP.