- South East Brisbane based role. Perm Opportunity with strong career progression.
- Own the Design Engineering function of an exciting renewables organisation.

About Our Client

Our client is an engineering driven clean tech company that converts bio-waste into valuable products such as fuel and fertilizer pellets, helping industries reduce waste, emissions, and disposal costs.

Job Description

Key responsibilities

- Own the process design basis and lead development of our commercial-scale reference plant - PFDs, heat and mass balances, P&IDs;, equipment specification, control and operating philosophy.
- Direct and develop our process engineering team, and embed decades of operating knowledge into the design.
- Lead safety in design - HAZID/HAZOP participation and close-out of process actions.
- Establish the performance and acceptance basis for client-facing plant guarantees.
- Support client feasibility studies and plant projects together with our technical sales team.
- Contribute to the longer-term technology roadmap as the company grows.
- Lead the design and development of engineering solutions and systems.
- Conduct technical reviews and provide recommendations for improvement.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
- Analyse and resolve design challenges to achieve project objectives.
- Support the mentoring and development of junior engineers.
- Maintain thorough documentation of design processes and project outcomes.

The Successful Applicant

Must have

- 15+ years in design,



mechanical/electrical or chemical engineering within process industries (waste, bioenergy, water, food, minerals, chemicals or similar).
- Must have owned the process design basis and lead development of a commercial-scale plant design
- Demonstrated pilot-to-commercial scale-up experience - you have owned or been a lead author of a design basis or process design package that was subsequently built and commissioned.
- Hands-on plant fluency - as comfortable on the tools at a demonstration plant as defending a heat and mass balance in a design review.
- Experience specifying and managing external engineering consultancies and/or interfacing with EPC contractors.
- HAZOP/HAZID participation experience and a strong safety-in-design mindset.
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Mechanical or Design Engineering (or equivalent).
- Based in, or willing to work predominantly from, greater Brisbane; the right to work in Australia; current Australian driver's licence.

Good to have

- RPEQ registration (Queensland) or eligibility.
- FOAK industrial design experience
- Drying, dewatering, densification/pelletising, sludge or organic-waste processing experience.
- Experience in a technology licensor, OEM or scale-up workplace.
- HAZOP facilitation; capital cost estimating (AACE class 3-4).

What's on Offer

- Competitive salary ranging from $170,000 to $180,000 AUD base + super + bonus.
- Equity in the company as part of the package.
- Permanent position.

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📌 Lead Process & Design Engineer (Queensland)
🏢 Michael Page Australia
📍 Queensland