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Geotechnical Engineer roles qualify for TN visa sponsorship under the USMCA's Engineer category, covering soil analysis, foundation design, slope stability, and subsurface investigation work. Canadian citizens can apply at the port of entry without a cap; Mexican citizens go through consular processing. Your degree in civil or geotechnical engineering must clearly support the role.
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Johnson Camp Mine | Cochise County, Arizona
Gunnison Copper
Full-Time | Salaried Exempt
Build Your Career Where Your Engineering Makes a Visible Difference
Gunnison Copper is seeking a Geotechnical Engineer to join our team at the Johnson Camp Mine in southeastern Arizona. This is a hands-on, site-based opportunity for an engineer who enjoys being close to the operation, solving real-world technical problems, and working collaboratively with mine operations, engineering, geology, leaching, safety, and external technical specialists. The Geotechnical Engineer will serve as the site's primary day-to-day geotechnical resource, with responsibility for monitoring and evaluating pit slopes, highwalls, heap-leach facilities, and other geotechnically sensitive areas. The role is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who has developed a solid technical foundation and is ready to take greater ownership of an operating mine's geotechnical surveillance and risk-management program.
In this role, you will:
- Manage and execute the site's geotechnical monitoring and surveillance program.
- Conduct routine inspections of pit walls, highwalls, catch benches, heap-leach facilities, slopes, crests, toes, and other geotechnically sensitive areas.
- Identify and evaluate potential ground-control concerns including cracking, rockfall, raveling, bulging, sloughing, erosion, seepage, ponding, settlement, and unusual deformation.
- Review and interpret geotechnical monitoring data from systems such as:
- survey prisms;
- piezometers;
- inclinometers;
- InSAR;
- LiDAR; and
- GPS/survey monitoring.
- Evaluate movement, deformation, and pore-pressure trends against established trigger levels.
- Administer applicable Trigger Action Response Plans (TARPs) and escalate conditions requiring increased monitoring, corrective action, engineering review, or access restrictions.
- Conduct event-driven inspections following significant rainfall, seismic activity, unusual deformation, seepage, cracking, ponding, or monitoring alarms.
- Evaluate highwall and catch-bench conditions and assist in improving rockfall and ground-control practices.
- Work with Mine Engineering and Operations to evaluate the geotechnical effects of blasting, excavation practices, mine sequencing, and changing ground conditions.
- Provide geotechnical support to heap-leach operations, including evaluation of seepage, slope conditions, water management, and side-slope leaching.
- Assist with planning and installation of additional geotechnical instrumentation where needed.
- Coordinate with Gunnison Copper's external Design Engineer and geotechnical consultants.
- Support geotechnical drilling, investigations, instrumentation installation, and technical studies.
- Track geotechnical recommendations and corrective actions through completion.
- Maintain accurate inspection, monitoring, photographic, and technical records.
- Prepare clear geotechnical reports, trending information, and performance metrics for mine leadership.
- Participate in Management of Change reviews where operational or engineering changes may affect geotechnical conditions.
What We're Looking For
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Geological Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Civil Engineering with a geotechnical emphasis, or a closely related engineering discipline.
- Approximately 3 or more years of relevant engineering experience.
- Working knowledge of slope stability, rock mechanics, ground control, and geotechnical risk management.
- Experience collecting, reviewing, and interpreting geotechnical field or instrumentation data.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to recognize developing field hazards and exercise sound technical judgment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to communicate technical issues effectively with engineers, supervisors, operators, contractors, and mine leadership.
- Willingness and ability to work regularly in an active open-pit mining environment and outdoor field conditions.
- Ability to complete required MSHA training and comply with all site safety requirements.
Highly Desired
We're particularly interested in candidates with:
- Experience in open-pit hard-rock mining.
- Copper mining experience.
- Experience with pit-wall or highwall monitoring.
- Experience with heap-leach facilities.
- Familiarity with prisms, piezometers, inclinometers, InSAR, LiDAR, or similar monitoring technologies.
- Experience working with geotechnical TARPs.
- Geotechnical drilling or instrumentation-installation experience.
- Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certification.
- Experience with Rockscience software such as Dips, Slide2/Slide3, RS2/RS3, or comparable geotechnical applications.
- Experience with AutoCAD/Civil 3D, GIS, Excel, or other engineering/data-analysis tools.
The Candidate Who Will Thrive Here
The strongest candidate will combine solid technical fundamentals with practical mine-site judgment. You should be comfortable spending time in the field, identifying potential problems early, analyzing monitoring data, working directly with operating teams, and escalating issues when conditions warrant. This position is well suited for an engineer who wants more responsibility than a traditional junior engineering role and is ready to own a site-level geotechnical program while continuing to develop under experienced external design and technical specialists. You should be someone who is:
- Safety focused.
- Curious and analytical.
- Comfortable making field observations and technical recommendations.
- Organized and detail oriented.
- Proactive rather than reactive.
- Able to influence people without relying on formal authority.
- Comfortable working across engineering and operating disciplines.
- Willing to speak up when conditions present potential risk.
Location & Work Environment
This position is based at the Johnson Camp Mine in Cochise County, Arizona. The role requires regular work in an active open-pit mining environment, including exposure to uneven terrain, slopes, highwalls, mining equipment, and outdoor desert conditions. Appropriate PPE and compliance with MSHA and Gunnison Copper safety requirements are mandatory. This is primarily a day-shift position; however, occasional response outside normal working hours may be required when significant geotechnical conditions or events warrant timely assessment.
Why Gunnison Copper?
Gunnison Copper offers the opportunity to work in a growing copper mining organization where engineers can have a meaningful and direct impact on operational performance, safety, risk management, and the future development of the business. At Johnson Camp, this is not a desk-only engineering position. You'll work directly with the people operating the mine, see the results of your recommendations, and have the opportunity to help shape and strengthen the site's geotechnical program.
Join Our Team
If you are a geotechnical, geological, mining, or civil engineer with a strong interest in open-pit mining, slope stability, ground control, and operational geotechnics, we encourage you to apply.
Gunnison Copper is an equal opportunity employer.
Geotechnical Engineer
Johnson Camp Mine | Cochise County, Arizona
Gunnison Copper
Full-Time | Salaried Exempt
Build Your Career Where Your Engineering Makes a Visible Difference
Gunnison Copper is seeking a Geotechnical Engineer to join our team at the Johnson Camp Mine in southeastern Arizona. This is a hands-on, site-based opportunity for an engineer who enjoys being close to the operation, solving real-world technical problems, and working collaboratively with mine operations, engineering, geology, leaching, safety, and external technical specialists. The Geotechnical Engineer will serve as the site's primary day-to-day geotechnical resource, with responsibility for monitoring and evaluating pit slopes, highwalls, heap-leach facilities, and other geotechnically sensitive areas. The role is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who has developed a solid technical foundation and is ready to take greater ownership of an operating mine's geotechnical surveillance and risk-management program.
In this role, you will:
- Manage and execute the site's geotechnical monitoring and surveillance program.
- Conduct routine inspections of pit walls, highwalls, catch benches, heap-leach facilities, slopes, crests, toes, and other geotechnically sensitive areas.
- Identify and evaluate potential ground-control concerns including cracking, rockfall, raveling, bulging, sloughing, erosion, seepage, ponding, settlement, and unusual deformation.
- Review and interpret geotechnical monitoring data from systems such as:
- survey prisms;
- piezometers;
- inclinometers;
- InSAR;
- LiDAR; and
- GPS/survey monitoring.
- Evaluate movement, deformation, and pore-pressure trends against established trigger levels.
- Administer applicable Trigger Action Response Plans (TARPs) and escalate conditions requiring increased monitoring, corrective action, engineering review, or access restrictions.
- Conduct event-driven inspections following significant rainfall, seismic activity, unusual deformation, seepage, cracking, ponding, or monitoring alarms.
- Evaluate highwall and catch-bench conditions and assist in improving rockfall and ground-control practices.
- Work with Mine Engineering and Operations to evaluate the geotechnical effects of blasting, excavation practices, mine sequencing, and changing ground conditions.
- Provide geotechnical support to heap-leach operations, including evaluation of seepage, slope conditions, water management, and side-slope leaching.
- Assist with planning and installation of additional geotechnical instrumentation where needed.
- Coordinate with Gunnison Copper's external Design Engineer and geotechnical consultants.
- Support geotechnical drilling, investigations, instrumentation installation, and technical studies.
- Track geotechnical recommendations and corrective actions through completion.
- Maintain accurate inspection, monitoring, photographic, and technical records.
- Prepare clear geotechnical reports, trending information, and performance metrics for mine leadership.
- Participate in Management of Change reviews where operational or engineering changes may affect geotechnical conditions.
What We're Looking For
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Geological Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Civil Engineering with a geotechnical emphasis, or a closely related engineering discipline.
- Approximately 3 or more years of relevant engineering experience.
- Working knowledge of slope stability, rock mechanics, ground control, and geotechnical risk management.
- Experience collecting, reviewing, and interpreting geotechnical field or instrumentation data.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to recognize developing field hazards and exercise sound technical judgment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to communicate technical issues effectively with engineers, supervisors, operators, contractors, and mine leadership.
- Willingness and ability to work regularly in an active open-pit mining environment and outdoor field conditions.
- Ability to complete required MSHA training and comply with all site safety requirements.
Highly Desired
We're particularly interested in candidates with:
- Experience in open-pit hard-rock mining.
- Copper mining experience.
- Experience with pit-wall or highwall monitoring.
- Experience with heap-leach facilities.
- Familiarity with prisms, piezometers, inclinometers, InSAR, LiDAR, or similar monitoring technologies.
- Experience working with geotechnical TARPs.
- Geotechnical drilling or instrumentation-installation experience.
- Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certification.
- Experience with Rockscience software such as Dips, Slide2/Slide3, RS2/RS3, or comparable geotechnical applications.
- Experience with AutoCAD/Civil 3D, GIS, Excel, or other engineering/data-analysis tools.
The Candidate Who Will Thrive Here
The strongest candidate will combine solid technical fundamentals with practical mine-site judgment. You should be comfortable spending time in the field, identifying potential problems early, analyzing monitoring data, working directly with operating teams, and escalating issues when conditions warrant. This position is well suited for an engineer who wants more responsibility than a traditional junior engineering role and is ready to own a site-level geotechnical program while continuing to develop under experienced external design and technical specialists. You should be someone who is:
- Safety focused.
- Curious and analytical.
- Comfortable making field observations and technical recommendations.
- Organized and detail oriented.
- Proactive rather than reactive.
- Able to influence people without relying on formal authority.
- Comfortable working across engineering and operating disciplines.
- Willing to speak up when conditions present potential risk.
Location & Work Environment
This position is based at the Johnson Camp Mine in Cochise County, Arizona. The role requires regular work in an active open-pit mining environment, including exposure to uneven terrain, slopes, highwalls, mining equipment, and outdoor desert conditions. Appropriate PPE and compliance with MSHA and Gunnison Copper safety requirements are mandatory. This is primarily a day-shift position; however, occasional response outside normal working hours may be required when significant geotechnical conditions or events warrant timely assessment.
Why Gunnison Copper?
Gunnison Copper offers the opportunity to work in a growing copper mining organization where engineers can have a meaningful and direct impact on operational performance, safety, risk management, and the future development of the business. At Johnson Camp, this is not a desk-only engineering position. You'll work directly with the people operating the mine, see the results of your recommendations, and have the opportunity to help shape and strengthen the site's geotechnical program.
Join Our Team
If you are a geotechnical, geological, mining, or civil engineer with a strong interest in open-pit mining, slope stability, ground control, and operational geotechnics, we encourage you to apply.
Gunnison Copper is an equal opportunity employer.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding TN Visa Sponsorship as a Geotechnical Engineer
Align your credentials with USMCA definitions
The TN visa Engineer category requires a qualifying degree in engineering. Make sure your Canadian or Mexican transcript lists a recognized engineering discipline. A geotechnical specialization within a civil engineering degree satisfies this, but a geology degree alone typically does not.
Target employers with active geotechnical project pipelines
Infrastructure, energy, and transportation firms with recent visa filings are far more prepared to support TN sponsorship than general contractors. Target employers experienced with work visa sponsorship when applying for Geotechnical Engineer roles—their familiarity with visa processes means they're more likely equipped to write the required support letter and understand TN requirements.
Clarify the support letter scope upfront
Your employer's TN support letter must describe the geotechnical engineering duties specifically, not just your job title. CBP officers at the port of entry review this document directly, so vague language about general engineering work can trigger denial.
Prepare your P.Eng. credentials for CBP review
Canadian applicants with a Professional Engineer designation should bring their P.Eng. certificate to the port of entry. While not required, it reinforces that your qualifications meet U.S. specialty occupation standards and can resolve officer questions about degree equivalency on the spot.
Use Migrate Mate to find TN-ready geotechnical employers
Filtering by visa sponsorship history saves significant time at the job search stage. Migrate Mate surfaces geotechnical engineering roles from employers already familiar with TN filing requirements, so you're not educating hiring managers about the process from scratch.
Confirm Mexican TN processing timelines before accepting offers
Mexican citizens must schedule a consular interview at a U.S. embassy or consulate, which adds weeks to the timeline. Factor this into your offer negotiation and start date, and notify your future employer before signing so they can plan project assignments accordingly.
Geotechnical Engineer TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Geotechnical Engineer role qualify for the TN visa?
Yes. Geotechnical Engineers qualify under the TN visa's Engineer category, which covers civil and geotechnical engineering work including soil testing, foundation analysis, slope stability assessments, and subsurface investigations. Your degree must be in a recognized engineering discipline. A civil engineering degree with geotechnical coursework satisfies this requirement. A geology or environmental science degree without an engineering designation typically does not.
How does the TN visa compare to H-1B for Geotechnical Engineers?
The TN visa has no annual lottery, no cap for Canadians, and can be approved at the port of entry the same day for Canadian citizens. H-1B visa is subject to an annual lottery with a 65,000 cap and requires employer sponsorship months in advance. For geotechnical roles, TN is generally faster and more predictable, though it does not lead directly to permanent residence the way H-1B can.
How can I find Geotechnical Engineer jobs with TN visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is designed specifically for professionals seeking U.S. jobs with visa sponsorship, including TN. You can search for geotechnical engineering roles from employers with documented sponsorship history, which avoids the friction of approaching companies that have never navigated TN requirements. Filtering by sponsorship readiness at the search stage significantly shortens your job search timeline.
What documents do I need at the port of entry as a Canadian Geotechnical Engineer?
Canadian citizens applying for TN status at the port of entry should bring a valid Canadian passport, a formal job offer letter or employer support letter describing geotechnical duties in detail, degree transcripts and diploma, and any professional engineering credentials such as a P.Eng. certificate. CBP will review these documents and, if approved, stamp your passport to grant TN status on the spot.
Can I work for multiple employers on a TN visa as a Geotechnical Engineer?
You can hold TN status with multiple employers, but each employer relationship requires its own separate TN approval. Canadian citizens can apply for an additional employer's TN at the port of entry or through USCIS. Mexican citizens must go through consular processing for each employer. Concurrent TN approvals are legally permitted, which is relevant for geotechnical consultants working across project-based contracts.