WSP

Senior Rock Mechanics Engineer

WSP$122K — $162K *
Energy & Utilities
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in mining, geological, geotechnical, or related engineering discipline.
  • Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation or eligibility for registration in Canada.
  • 8+ years of relevant rock mechanics or mining geotechnical experience, particularly in underground mining projects.
  • Strong skills in rock mass characterization, geotechnical investigations, excavation stability, ground support design, and risk management.
  • Proficient with numerical modelling and stability analysis tools like RS2, RS3, or FLAC3D.
  • Experience with large underground operations or open pit slope designs is advantageous.
  • Excellent ability to lead field programs, produce technical reports, and coordinate multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead geotechnical studies to enhance safety and stability across mining projects.
  • Deliver rock mass characterization and stability assessments for various excavation types.
  • Guide analyses that transform geological data into actionable decisions.
  • Manage field programs including core logging and testing to ensure data integrity.
  • Oversee project scope, budgets, and timelines in collaboration with various engineering teams.
  • Develop trusted relationships with clients to facilitate project success.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on diverse and impactful global mining projects.
  • Collaborative work environment with multidisciplinary teams.
  • Exposure to advanced tools and methodologies in rock mechanics.
  • Potential for professional growth and development in a reputable firm.
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Opportunity

Turn Ground Insight into Safer Mining

Help solve complex geotechnical challenges across the mining lifecycle. Your expertise will shape practical, defensible solutions that improve excavation stability, manage risk, and support safer, more resilient operations.

Based in Toronto, Sudbury, or Montréal, you will contribute as a Senior Rock Mechanics Engineer within WSP's Mine Stability and Water team. You will provide technical leadership across a growing global portfolio of underground and open pit mining projects, working with multidisciplinary teams and clients throughout early studies, feasibility, detailed engineering, construction, and operations.

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Your Impact

  • Lead rock mechanics and geotechnical studies that improve safety, stability, and operational performance across underground and open pit mining projects.


  • Deliver rock mass characterization, design criteria, ground support recommendations, and stability assessments for excavations, stopes, headings, raises, shafts, crown pillars, mass excavations, and open pit slopes.


  • Guide kinematic, empirical, and numerical analyses that turn complex geological and geotechnical data into practical decisions for clients.


  • Advance safe, high-quality field programs encompassing core logging, televiewer surveys, packer testing, instrumentation, monitoring, and laboratory data interpretation.


  • Drive project success by managing scope, budgets, schedules, deliverables, technical quality, and multidisciplinary collaboration across mining, geology, hydrogeology, and engineering teams.


  • Grow trusted partnerships.


The Skills That Set You Apart

  • A bachelor's degree in mining, geological, geotechnical, or a related engineering discipline.


  • Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation or eligibility for registration in Canada.


  • 8+ years of relevant rock mechanics or mining geotechnical experience, including strong involvement in underground mining projects.


  • Demonstrated capability in rock mass characterization, geotechnical investigations, excavation stability, ground support design, and geotechnical risk management.


  • Experience applying numerical modelling and stability analysis tools such as RS2, RS3, FLAC3D, EX3, or other Rocscience software.


  • Experience with block cave, sub-level cave, large underground operations, open pit slope design, or slope performance evaluation is an asset.


  • Proven ability to lead field programs and developing professionals, produce clear technical reports, advise clients, and coordinate multidisciplinary project delivery.


  • Ability to travel to client sites as required; French language capability is considered an asset.


Compensation

  • AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $135,200 - $179,100


  • MB & ON: $123,300 - $169,800


  • NB, NL, NS, PE & QC: $122,100 - $162,200


Disclosure: The final salary awarded for this role may vary from the above range based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. The wage range provided in this job posting may be subject to change for business purposes.

Make Every Excavation More Resilient

Bring together field insight, advanced analysis, and sound engineering judgement to help mining clients manage uncertainty and create safer, stronger operations.

Shape confidence from the rock outward.

About WSP

WSP is a Canadian engineering consulting firm that provides services to transform the built environment and restore the natural environment. The firm's expertise ranges from environmental remediation and urban planning, to engineering iconic buildings and designing sustainable transport networks, to developing the energy sources of the future and enabling new ways of extracting essential resources. It has approximately 54,000 employees, including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors, program and construction management professionals, and various environmental experts. WSP has offices in more than 40 countries and territories around the world.
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