# Principal Rock Mechanics Engineer - Underground & Mass Mining

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Vancouver, BC, BC
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $200,880 annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Rock Mechanics Engineer - Underground & Mass Mining to join our team. In this role, you will provide senior technical leadership on deep, high-stress, and mass-mining projects in Canada and internationally.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Leading underground rock mechanics and geotechnical studies for deep, high-stress, and mass-mining projects

- Developing geotechnical design criteria for mine development, production areas, major excavations, and critical underground infrastructure

- Directing complex numerical modelling programs to evaluate excavation stability, stress interactions, sequencing strategies, subsidence, and ground response

- Assessing rockburst potential, seismicity, brittle rock behaviour, spalling, and squeezing conditions

- Guiding the development of ground-support systems, rehabilitation programs, monitoring approaches, and Ground Control Management Plans

- Integrating geotechnical recommendations into mining-method selection, mine layouts, infrastructure design, sequencing, and operational planning

- Providing technical leadership on multidisciplinary studies and projects while mentoring engineers and geoscientists and strengthening technical practices

- Building trusted client relationships by delivering clear guidance, sound judgment, and innovative solutions to complex underground mining challenges

The ideal candidate will have:

- A Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering, Geological Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related discipline

- Significant experience in mining rock mechanics or geotechnical engineering supporting underground mine studies, design, and/or operations

- Demonstrated expertise in deep and high-stress underground mining environments, including rock mass characterization, excavation stability, and ground-support design

- Advanced capability with numerical modelling tools such as FLAC3D or equivalent continuum and discontinuum modelling software

- Experience integrating geotechnical recommendations into mining methods, mine layouts, infrastructure design, production sequencing, and operational decision-making

- Proven ability to lead complex technical assignments, review deliverables, and effectively communicate geotechnical risk to clients and multidisciplinary project teams

- Experience with block cave, panel cave, or sub-level cave mining projects is strongly preferred

- Willingness and ability to travel to mine sites and client locations, including international destinations, as project requirements demand

We offer a competitive salary starting from $200,880 annually, as well as a range of benefits and opportunities for professional growth and development.

## Skills

### Required
- Mining Engineering
- Geological Engineering
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Numerical Modelling
- FLAC3D

### Nice to have
- Block Cave Mining
- Panel Cave Mining
- Sub-Level Cave Mining

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