# Principal Engineer- Hoisting and Headframe

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

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Engineer- Hoisting and Headframe to lead the technical delivery and coordination of shaft fit-out and permanent shaft infrastructure packages for underground mining projects. You will take package ownership from studies and design development through procurement support, construction, and commissioning, working with multidisciplinary engineering teams, clients, contractors, and equipment suppliers.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead hoisting, headframe, and shaft fit-out engineering packages through feasibility, basic engineering, detailed design, and construction support.

- Develop and maintain design criteria, design bases, calculations, technical specifications, reports, and drawings.

- Lead or review hoisting studies, hoist duty calculations, production checks, and system selection.

- Define skip, cage, and counterweight arrangements, including conveyance sizing and operating requirements.

- Develop rope, sheave, guide, and fleet angle arrangements in coordination with the selected hoisting system.

- Coordinate the layout and technical requirements for headframes, backlegs, hoist houses, collar structures, and associated foundations.

- Lead the design integration of shaft furniture, buntons, guides, services, station steelwork, and loading and unloading arrangements.

- Manage interfaces with shaft stations, loading pockets, ore bins, material handling systems, and surface infrastructure.

- Coordinate structural, mechanical, electrical, controls, civil, mining, and construction inputs into the package.

- Identify and manage technical interfaces, design risks, assumptions, and battery limits.

- Plan and lead design reviews, constructability reviews, and technical risk workshops.

- Review calculations, drawings, models, and specifications prepared by internal teams, consultants, and suppliers.

- Prepare procurement packages and support tender clarification, technical bid evaluation, and vendor document review.

- Provide technical support during fabrication, installation, shaft conversion, commissioning, and operational readiness.

- Support project managers with work planning, programs, budgets, progress reporting, and change management.

- Mentor engineers and designers and provide technical guidance across the wider shaft engineering team.

**Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related discipline.

- Approximately 10-15 years of relevant experience in mine hoisting, shaft engineering, or heavy industrial infrastructure.

- Demonstrated experience delivering hoisting, headframe, or shaft fit-out packages on underground mining projects.

- Experience taking engineering packages through more than one project stage, including detailed design or construction support.

- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary design teams and specialist equipment suppliers.

- Chartered Engineer, Professional Engineer, or equivalent professional registration is preferred.

**Required Technical Knowledge:**

- Friction and drum hoisting systems.

- Hoist duty calculations, cycle times, payloads, operating speeds, and production requirements.

- Skips, cages, counterweights, and associated conveyance systems.

- Hoisting ropes, balance ropes, sheaves, and rope handling requirements.

- Fixed and rope guide systems and shaft clearance requirements.

- Headframe and hoist house layouts, load paths, and equipment interfaces.

- Shaft furniture, supports, services, and installation requirements.

- Loading, unloading, spillage, overrun, and shaft bottom arrangements.

- Design safety, maintainability, operability, and constructability.

- Engineering specifications, procurement support, and vendor document review.

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mining Engineering
- Structural Engineering
- Hoisting systems
- Headframe design
- Shaft fit-out
- Underground mining projects
- Multidisciplinary engineering teams
- Procurement support
- Construction support
- Commissioning

### Nice to have
- Chartered Engineer
- Professional Engineer
- Deep shaft projects
- Shaft sinking
- Shaft deepening
- Shaft rehabilitation
- Potash mining
- Hard rock mining
- Metalliferous mining
- Bulk commodity mining
- Construction supervision
- Installation support
- International projects

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