# Lead Underground Paste Backfill Engineer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Salt Lake City, UT
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking a Lead Underground Paste Backfill Engineer to join their Salt Lake City, UT office. The role involves providing technical leadership, management, and delivery of underground paste backfill scope for mining projects.

**Job Summary** The Lead Underground Paste Backfill Engineer will be responsible for the overall technical leadership, management, and successful delivery of the underground paste backfill scope. The role serves as the primary interface between the surface paste plant, underground mining operations, engineering disciplines, construction, commissioning, and the Owner's team.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of all underground paste backfill engineering activities.

- Manage multidisciplinary engineering teams, consultants, and specialist resources.

- Monitor engineering progress, budgets, forecasts, schedules, and deliverables.

- Coordinate interfaces between mining, process, mechanical, piping, electrical, controls, geotechnical, civil, and construction teams.

- Serve as the technical authority for underground paste backfill systems, including distribution piping, boreholes, valves, pumping systems, barricades, and stope delivery infrastructure.

- Establish and maintain design criteria, operating philosophies, and technical standards.

- Lead design reviews, constructability reviews, HAZOPs, and risk assessments.

- Ensure integration between the surface paste plant and underground distribution network.

- Provide technical guidance during construction, installation, and underground infrastructure development.

- Review RFIs, contractor submittals, field changes, and design modifications.

- Support field inspections, walkdowns, and verification of construction against design intent.

- Lead underground paste system commissioning and startup activities.

- Develop commissioning strategies, test plans, and acceptance criteria.

- Coordinate integrated testing between surface facilities and underground infrastructure.

- Support operator training, startup troubleshooting, performance testing, and handover to operations.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor’s degree in mining engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or related discipline.

- PE or P.Eng. designation preferred.

- 8+ years of mining project experience and experience involving underground mining and paste backfill systems.

- Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams on major capital projects through study, detailed design, construction, and commissioning.

- Strong understanding of EPCM project delivery models and multidisciplinary engineering management.

- Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills.

- Demonstrated high-level of self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, and prioritization of responsibilities in a dynamic work environment.

- Works independently with minimal oversight and provides guidance and leadership to junior team or project members.

- Highly proficient with technical writing, office automation, load calculations, discipline-specific design software, technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Deep experience with underground paste backfill systems, reticulation networks, and mine infrastructure.

- Experience on large underground gold, copper, or polymetallic mining projects.

- Experience leading engineering and field support during construction and commissioning.

- Commissioning plans, performance test procedures, and turnover packages.

- Monthly engineering progress, forecast, and risk reports.

## Skills

### Required
- mining engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- EPCM project delivery models
- multidisciplinary engineering management
- technical writing
- office automation
- load calculations
- discipline-specific design software

### Nice to have
- underground paste backfill systems
- reticulation networks
- mine infrastructure
- commissioning plans
- performance test procedures
- turnover packages

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