# Senior Engineer - Rock Mechanics

**Company**: WSP India
**Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As a Senior Engineer – Rock Mechanics, you will be part of the Switzerland GCC Tunnel Team in WSP India, based in Bengaluru.

The role will support a diverse portfolio of underground infrastructure, mining, and geo-energy projects in Switzerland and internationally.

## Responsibilities

### Rock Mechanics & Geotechnical Engineering

- Contribute to the planning, design, and delivery of geotechnical and rock mechanics services for tunnels, caverns, shafts, underground structures, and related infrastructure.

- Undertake rock mass characterisation through the interpretation of geological, geotechnical, laboratory, borehole, and field investigation data.

- Apply rock mass classification systems, including Q-System, RMR, and GSI, and associated empirical design methods.

- Develop geological and geotechnical ground models, including 3D geological and structural models using software such as Leapfrog Geo.

- Perform geotechnical assessments and stability analyses for underground excavations, tunnel portals, caverns, shafts, drifts, stopes, and rock slopes.

- Design and assess ground support systems, including rock bolts, cable bolts, shotcrete, mesh, steel ribs, and other support elements.

- Support tunnel and underground excavation design for Drill & Blast, NATM/SEM, and TBM excavation methods.

- Conduct rock mass stability assessments using empirical, analytical, and numerical modelling techniques.

- Carry out numerical modelling using industry-standard software, including FLAC2D / FLAC3D, DIPS, PLAXIS 2D / 3D, and Rocscience Suite.

- Evaluate excavation behaviour and optimise support systems based on project requirements and engineering analyses.

### Team & Project Environment

- Work within the GCC Switzerland Tunnel Team, collaborating with multidisciplinary specialists and WSP’s global ground engineering network.

- Contribute to projects across underground infrastructure, tunnel and cavern engineering, shaft sinking, and the energy sector, including underground gas storage, salt caverns, hydropower, and geothermal developments.

- Support clients in delivering sustainable and future-ready solutions, with consideration of industry challenges such as decarbonisation and resource optimisation.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or Geotechnical Engineering, Engineering Geology, or a related discipline. Masters Preferred.

- Minimum 8 years of professional experience in rock mechanics, geotechnical engineering, or tunnel engineering.

- Experience in geotechnical investigations and rock mass characterisation.

- Proficiency in numerical modelling software, including FLAC2D/3D, DIPS, 3DEC, PLAXIS 2D/3D, and Rocscience Suite.

- Strong technical report writing and communication skills.

- Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary and international project teams.

## Skills

### Required
- rock mechanics
- geotechnical engineering
- tunnel engineering
- Q-System
- RMR
- GSI
- Leapfrog Geo
- FLAC2D/3D
- DIPS
- PLAXIS 2D/3D
- Rocscience Suite

### Nice to have
- embodied carbon reduction in design

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