WSP

Senior Rock Mechanics Engineer

WSP$123K — $169K *
Energy & Utilities
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 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, particularly in underground mining projects.
  • Strong skills in rock mass characterization, geotechnical investigations, excavation stability, and ground support design.
  • Experience with numerical modelling and stability analysis tools like RS2, RS3, FLAC3D, or Rocscience software.
  • Familiarity with block cave, sub-level cave operations, or open pit slope design is an asset.
  • Proven leadership in field programs, technical reporting, and multidisciplinary project management.

Responsibilities

  • Lead geotechnical studies for improved safety and operational performance.
  • Deliver comprehensive rock mass characterization and stability assessments.
  • Guide analyses transforming geological data into client solutions.
  • Advance field programs including core logging and monitoring activities.
  • Manage project scope, budgets, schedules, and coordination among teams.
  • Grow partnerships with clients and stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Contribute to innovative mining projects that prioritize safety and stability.
  • Work within a collaborative, multidisciplinary team environment.
  • Gain exposure to a growing global mining portfolio.
  • Opportunity for professional growth and development in a leading engineering firm.
  • Work in major Canadian cities with the potential for travel to diverse locations.
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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