Job Description

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- Hands-on technical leadership within a high-performing design team.

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- Coach and guide engineers and drafters through projects.

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- Build processes and drive efficiency in a fast-paced environment.

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Good engineering looks one way on paper. Great engineering shows in the fabrication, assembly, and the finished product.

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Step into a role where you won't just design, you'll lead, shape, and influence how engineering is delivered across a quick-moving manufacturing business.

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ADE Power is growing due to high demand for its precision-engineered acoustic and modular enclosures, with and that growth comes complexity and a sustained pipeline of opportunity.

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This role is to coach and guide your team to strengthen capability, improve delivery, and set the foundation for the next phase of growth.

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You'll sit within the Design Engineering team, working closely with production, procurement, and the workshop to ensure designs are practical, manufacturable, and delivered at speed.

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You'll need to work autonomously, make decisions confidently, and keep projects moving without over-engineering solutions.

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What makes this role stand out is the opportunity to build.

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Build processes, build capability, and build a high-performing engineering function that can scale with the business.

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What you'll be responsible for:

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You'll carry the technical authority for mechanical design, owning the review and approval of drawings, calculations, and specifications, and making sure what leaves engineering is workshop-ready.

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Alongside the technical work, you'll be the person that graduate engineers and draftspersons look to for feedback, development, and direction. That's not a side responsibility; it's a core part of why this role exists.

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- Leading mechanical design activities across manufacturing, assembly, and installation,



ensuring compliance with Australian Standards, safe design principles, and client specifications.

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- Producing and reviewing detailed drawings, calculations, and documentation that are accurate, practical, and optimised for manufacture.

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- Managing design timelines to align engineering outputs with production schedules, providing technical clarification and resolving issues quickly.

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- Building standard designs, processes, and structured ways of working to improve consistency, reduce rework, and support repeatable delivery.

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- Conducting design risk assessments, engineering change reviews, and root cause investigations as required.

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- Providing technical input to project managers, clients, and suppliers – supporting effective decision-making across the project lifecycle.

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What you'll bring:

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You'll be a credible mechanical engineer first – someone with the design depth to lead technical decisions and the practical sense to know when a solution is good enough to build.

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The mentoring dimension is just as important: if developing junior engineers doesn't come naturally to you, this isn't the right role.

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A background in manufacturing or heavy industrial environments is essential; CPEng or progress toward it is an advantage.

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- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent, with 5+ years' experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.

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- Strong mechanical design capability:



able to produce and review detailed, build-ready drawings and calculations independently.

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- Demonstrated ability to mentor graduate engineers and technical staff, with a genuine interest in developing others.

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- Sound knowledge of Australian Standards, safe design principles, and quality management requirements.

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- A practical mindset – designing for manufacture, avoiding unnecessary complexity, and resolving issues at the source.

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- Strong communication skills and confidence working across engineering, production, procurement, and external stakeholders.

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- CPEng or working towards registration (desirable).

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What's on offer:

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ADE Power is at a point in its growth where the right Senior Mechanical Engineer will have a visible and lasting impact on how the engineering function operates.

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You'll inherit a capable graduate team that is ready to be developed, a business that genuinely values engineering quality, and enough autonomy to introduce the processes and standards you believe in.

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This isn't a role where you'll be maintaining someone else's system – you'll be building the next one.

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- Real influence over engineering processes, standards, and ways of working – with the backing to implement them.

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- A graduate team with ability and appetite for development, ready to be coached and lifted.

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- Strong growth trajectory, with the opportunity to step into broader technical or engineering leadership as the business scales.

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- A hands‐on environment where your engineering decisions connect directly to what gets built.

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- Competitive salary aligned to experience, with flexibility for the right individual.

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- Permanent, full‐time position based on‐site at Hexham.

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