Location: Sydney, Newcastle, or Brisbane
Contract Duration: 12 months
About the Role
An experienced Senior Mechanical Engineer is required to support a diverse portfolio of sustaining capital and brownfield engineering projects across multiple mining operations on the East Coast of Australia. This role offers the opportunity to work across a wide range of commodities and operational environments, providing practical mechanical engineering solutions for plant upgrades, reliability improvements, and ongoing operational support. The position is suited to a driven and adaptable engineer who thrives in a consulting or project-driven environment and enjoys working within multidisciplinary teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver detailed mechanical engineering designs, specifications, and calculations for sustaining capital and brownfield projects.
- Provide technical input and engineering judgement across a wide variety of mining and processing infrastructure.
- Support concept, prefeasibility, and feasibility study stages as well as execution and commissioning activities.
- Work collaboratively with internal disciplines, site personnel, and external stakeholders to progress project objectives.
- Develop scopes of work, technical documentation, and engineering reports with a focus on cost-effective and practical solutions.
- Ensure engineering deliverables comply with relevant standards, safety requirements, and project quality expectations.
- Oversee and monitor engineering packages across multiple projects simultaneously, managing priorities, timelines, and stakeholder expectations.
- Participate in design reviews, risk assessments, constructability assessments, and reliability studies.
- Provide technical support during installation, shutdowns, and plant upgrade activities where required.
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (RPEQ or CPEng accreditation is highly advantageous).
- Minimum 5 years of engineering experience, ideally within consulting, EPCM, or project engineering environments in the mining/resources sector.
- Strong background in sustaining capital, brownfield modifications, or plant upgrade projects.
- Exposure to a broad range of commodities such as iron ore, coal, base metals, lithium, gold, or other resource operations is desirable.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver practical, efficient, and safe engineering solutions in operational mine or processing environments.
- Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience managing multiple work scopes of varying size and complexity, maintaining quality and schedule across concurrent projects.
ALL APPLICANTS MUST HAVE PERMANENT RESIDENCY OR CITIZENSHIP WITHIN AUSTRALIA.
For more information on the role, the client or the project please click 'APPLY NOW', or contact Yvonne Boczula on yvonne@techresources.com.au or call 0455 961 073 .
