Senior Mechanical Engineer

Senior Project Engineer (Mechanical)
Mining Capital Projects | Sustaining Capital | Mining/Resource Sector

Location: Booragoon with Site Travel (SOR)
Rate: $100 to 130 p/hr Plus Super (Dependent on Experience)
Contract Duration: 12 Months with strong possible extensions thereafter

Chandler Macleod is partnering with a leading global resources organisation to recruit an experienced Senior Project Engineer (Mechanical) to deliver a portfolio of mining capital projects, sustaining capital works and infrastructure upgrades across a large-scale operational environment.

This opportunity is ideally suited to a Mechanical Engineer with experience delivering brownfield capital projects, mining infrastructure projects, materials handling upgrades, water infrastructure projects and multidisciplinary engineering packages from concept through to commissioning.

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About the Role
As a Senior Project Engineer, you will be responsible for managing the full project lifecycle, including:

• Project scoping and definition
• Business case development and capital approval submissions
• Engineering design and design management
• Procurement and contractor management
• Construction and commissioning activities
• Cost, schedule and risk management
• Stakeholder engagement across operations, maintenance and project teams
• Project closeout and handover

You will work across a diverse portfolio of projects involving both process plant and non-process infrastructure (NPI) assets.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver mechanical engineering and capital projects safely, on time and within budget
• Develop scopes of work, technical specifications and project execution plans
• Coordinate engineering consultants, contractors and vendors
• Lead project meetings, risk reviews and contractor interfaces
• Support shutdown planning and execution activities
• Manage project budgets, forecasts and schedules
• Ensure compliance with site standards, Australian Standards and engineering best practice
• Drive project outcomes through all project phases from concept, feasibility and design through to construction and commissioning

About You To be successful, you will have:
Essential

• Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Experience delivering capital projects within mining, resources, heavy industry or minerals processing environments
• Demonstrated experience managing projects through design, procurement, construction and commissioning phases
• Strong contractor management and stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience working within brownfield operating environments
• Strong commercial, risk management and project controls capability

Highly Regarded Experience with any of the following:

• Bulk materials handling systems
• Conveyors, crushers, feeders and transfer stations
• Water infrastructure projects
• Pumping systems and pipelines
• Mechanical plant upgrades
• Fuel, utilities and non-process infrastructure projects
• Port, rail or mining infrastructure
• Owner's team, EPCM or client-side project delivery
• Sustaining capital project portfolios

Why Apply?

• Join a recognised leader within the resources sector
• Diverse portfolio of mining and infrastructure projects
• Strong pipeline of sustaining capital and expansion projects
• Collaborative engineering and project delivery environment
• Competitive salary package 

At Chandler Macleod, we are committed to fostering a diverse workforce where everyone is welcome. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, neurodiverse, people living with a disability and the LGBTIQA+ community.

You can read more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion at https://www.chandlermacleod.com/diversity-and-inclusion.