Principal Project Engineer - SMP

Who Are We

Xenco provides businesses with executive and operational level support that significantly improves productivity, efficiencies, and company profitability. We pride ourselves on our ability to develop a rapid understanding of business issues, formulate an achievable plan, and execute it to deliver improvements to our clients’ bottom line.

 

The Opportunity

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Project Engineer – Structural, Mechanical & Piping (SMP) to join our team, working directly with a tier-one mining client on the delivery of major capital projects at an operating minerals processing site in regional Australia. This is a consulting role, not a permanent site position – you’ll be engaged on assignment as part of the client’s owner’s team, providing client-side SMP engineering leadership and technical oversight of an EPC Contractor from design through to commissioning.

This role suits an experienced client-side, EPC or EPCM SMP engineer looking to make the switch into consulting, or an existing consultant, bringing genuine hands-on project delivery and field engineering experience in a brownfield or operating environment into a client advisory setting.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Providing senior technical and project engineering leadership for civil and SMP delivery on behalf of the client
• Providing technical governance over the EPC Contractor’s structural, mechanical and piping engineering, including review and approval of models, drawings, specifications and technical queries
• Monitoring EPC Contractor performance against project requirements, engineering standards, quality and schedule
• Supporting constructability reviews, execution planning and field delivery of SMP works
• Providing senior SMP technical support through construction, pre-commissioning and commissioning, including timely resolution of field issues
• Overseeing owner-managed procurement and construction packages, including technical input into packages, vendor data reviews and contractor interfaces
• Managing engineering and delivery risks and ensuring compliance with applicable codes, standards and site requirements
• Supporting the management of scope, cost and schedule, and preparing project reporting for a wide range of stakeholder groups
• Providing technical direction to a multidisciplinary project team, including design, EI&C, metallurgy and operational readiness
• Building strong working relationships with client stakeholders, from EPC engineering and construction teams through to operations, maintenance, procurement and project leadership
• Working cross-shift across roster handovers to maintain continuity of project delivery
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of Xenco’s project delivery and engineering consulting methodologies, tools and frameworks

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical preferred; other relevant engineering disciplines considered)
• Extensive experience in SMP engineering for minerals processing or heavy industrial projects, genuine site-based construction and commissioning experience is essential
• Experience in client-side, EPC or EPCM roles, including reviewing engineering deliverables, managing technical risk and overseeing contractors
• Demonstrated experience resolving engineering and construction issues in an operating or brownfield environment
• Strong technical judgement and risk-based decision-making, with a practical, delivery-focused approach in a construction environment
• Comfortable operating as an external advisor within a client owner’s team, building trust and credibility quickly and influencing EPC contractors and internal stakeholders
• Strong capability across quality and safety management, contractor and stakeholder interface management, and technical report writing
• Excellent communication, coordination and issue-resolution skills, with a high level of accountability and ownership
• Willingness and ability to work a site-based roster, including handovers across shifts
• Current Australian driver’s licence

 
Why Join Us?

• Be part of a global leader with the resources and reputation to get things done.
• Enjoy a unique role where you can directly influence project outcomes, engineering standards and delivery.
• Potential for long-term opportunities.

We are looking for people that are ambitious and able to use their initiative to drive outcomes. In line with this, the role will pay competitive rates and provide people with rapid and diverse experience. If you’re an accountable, seasoned professional ready to bring value and tackle challenges head-on, apply today!