We have been making polyurethane lined equipment since ****. Our Specthane® lined pipe spools, bends, chutes, cyclones, wear parts and mill liners go into mine sites and mineral processing plants around Australia and overseas, where they run in slurry duties that chew through steel.
Ballina is our home plant and where we do the lot ourselves: engineering, fabrication, welding, moulding, casting and finishing. Some of our clients include Fortescue, Glencore Technology, Metso and Mineral Technologies.
About the role
We are after a mechanical engineer early in their career. If you have a year or two behind you and want more scope than you are getting now, this will suit. Recent graduates are also encouraged to apply.
You will be based at our Ballina plant and work alongside our production, fabrication, quoting and QA people from day one.
You will start on drafting and modelling, then pick up your own jobs as you find your feet. How fast you take on full ownership is up to you, but we would expect you to be running projects end to end, from client enquiry through to dispatch, inside your first couple of years.
This is an immediate need, so we are moving quickly on the right person.
What you will be doing
Model parts, moulds and assemblies in Autodesk Inventor and produce manufacturing drawings
Design mould tooling, mostly sheet metal fabrications with flat patterns and weldments
Design and detail lined equipment, from chutes and cyclones to wear parts and piping spools
Reverse engineer worn or undocumented components from 3D scan data and site measurements
Help develop our 3D printing capability for tooling and casting aids
Work with production on manufacturability, tolerances and QA documentation




Answer client technical questions and prepare drawings, data packs and reports
What you will need
A bachelor degree in mechanical engineering, or something close to it (manufacturing, mechatronics, materials)
Working knowledge of a 3D CAD package. Inventor is what we use, but SolidWorks, Creo or similar is fine
A decent grounding in materials, tolerances, GD&T; and manufacturing processes
Willingness to have a crack at a job, and to ask when you are unsure
Clear written English. You will be writing reports and emails that go to clients
Willingness to put on boots and PPE and get out onto the factory floor and client sites
A current driver licence and the right to work in Australia
Also useful
A year or two in a design, manufacturing or heavy industry environment
3D printing, particularly printing functional tooling rather than just models
Working with point clouds and scan data for reverse engineering
Hands on project work at uni, in a workshop, or on a farm. We rate this highly
An interest in polymers, elastomers or wear materials
What you get
Direct mentoring from senior engineers
A clear path from drafting work to running your own projects, and a pay review to match as you take more on
Variety. Mill liners, pump liners, cyclones, piping spools and new mould concepts, often in the same month
The full loop. Scan a worn part on site, model it, design the mould, then watch it get fabricated, cast and finished in our own workshop. Very few engineering roles let you see a job the whole way through
The Northern Rivers. Ten minutes to the beach, half an hour to Byron
A secure, profitable Australian manufacturer that has been doing this for over 30 years
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📌 Junior Mechanical Engineer (Graduates Considered) (Ballina)
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