Description
We are seeking a Senior Structural Engineer to join our team in Sudbury, Ontario. As a Senior Structural Engineer, you will provide senior structural engineering leadership for mining and heavy industrial projects across Northern Ontario.
You will lead complex design, guide multidisciplinary decisions, mentor developing professionals, and help establish the technical standard for a growing local team. You will strengthen WSP’s Sudbury delivery capability while connecting with multidisciplinary mining specialists across Canada and around the world.
Your Impact
- Lead structural scope for studies, basic engineering, detailed design, and construction support on mining and industrial facilities.
- Develop and review design criteria, calculations, models, specifications, drawings, reports, and technical memoranda.
- Design and assess steel, reinforced concrete, and foundation systems for process buildings, equipment supports, platforms, conveyors, underground infrastructure, and existing facilities.
- Serve as structural technical lead or Engineer of Record where assigned and appropriate, and direct inspections, condition assessments, field investigations, and brownfield modification planning.
- Coordinate structural interfaces with mechanical, electrical, process, geotechnical, architectural, and construction teams while supporting constructability and risk reviews.
- Resolve complex field issues, perform senior technical reviews, mentor engineers and designers, and support proposals, estimates, and client relationships.
The Skills That Set You Apart
- A bachelor’s degree in civil or structural engineering.
- Professional Engineer registration in Ontario, or eligibility to obtain registration.
- Extensive structural engineering experience in mining, minerals processing, heavy industrial, or comparable facilities.
- Strong knowledge of Canadian structural design codes and the practical design of steel, reinforced concrete, and foundation systems.
- Experience leading technical teams, reviewing multidisciplinary deliverables, and translating field conditions, operating constraints, and client needs into safe, constructible solutions.
- Clear technical writing, client communication, decision-making, mentoring, and collaborative leadership skills.
- Experience with brownfield industrial facilities, equipment supports, conveyor galleries, crane structures, or underground mine infrastructure is preferred.
- Experience with structural analysis and design software for industrial facilities, together with field engineering, construction support, or site inspections, is preferred.
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