Join our team of intelligent and collaborative Changemakers and make your mark on tomorrow!
In this Perth-based role, you’ll work with the Mine Waste Manager and wider Mine Waste team as a Senior Tailings Engineer. Provide technical direction and/or provision of input to tailings design studies and related analyses.
Our Mining team helps clients optimise performance, boost profitability, and operate responsibly. We have a comprehensive understanding of the mining industry and current issues including decarbonisation and understand future ready strategies are critical to countering these issues, capitalising on opportunities, and adding value to businesses.
What you’ll do:
Provide technical direction or provision of input to tailings design studies and related analyses.
Fulfill Engineer of Record and Deputy Engineer of Record roles.
Liaise with specialists from other disciplines or offices within WSP.
Provide senior technical input to project teams and ensure that appropriate technical standards are developed and maintained.
Assess and understand credible failure modes and how they apply to specific tailings storage facilities.
Provide leadership of multi-disciplinary project teams on local, regional and international consulting assignments.
Provide technical guidance and mentoring for staff in the regional team and review their project work.
Deliver best practice consulting services to clients in Australia and overseas.
Provide recommendations in area of tailings and mine waste management to clients.
Maintain effective client relationships and generate consulting business.
Build and maintain business networks.
Project management, budgeting and quality control for tailings, mine waste, heap leach and similar assignments.
About you:
Bachelor Qualification in Civil/Mining Engineering or similar.
Proven working experience on tailings/mine waste related projects locally or internationally, ideally in a consulting environment.
Ability to work independently and within multi-disciplinary project teams.
Hold a current manual drivers’ licence.
About WSP
WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms, bringing together approximately 4,300 talented people across 14 offices in Australia. We have committed to halving the carbon footprint of our designs and advice by 2030. Our sustainable solutions and Future Ready™ projects will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.
Our vibrant workplace culture is an important part of what makes this a great place to work. It is supported by our Guiding Principles:
We value our people and our reputation.
We are locally dedicated with international scale.
We are future focused and challenge the status quo.
We foster collaboration in everything we do.
We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable.
WSP prioritises the health and wellbeing of our people by offering flexible working, 12 weeks parental leave, opportunities for global mobility, purchased additional leave, and competitive remuneration among many more benefits designed to help you shine. We are committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and equal opportunity workplace. We promote Indigenous voices and are actively delivering a ‘Stretch’ level Reconciliation Action Plan. Accredited by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as an Employer of Choice, we also support the LGBTQI+ community, and encourage all employees to bring their whole selves to work.
Think this could be the opportunity for you? Apply now to begin your journey with WSP.
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