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 setting 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

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.

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📌 Principal Project Engineer - SMP (Brisbane City)
🏢 Xenco Services
📍 Brisbane City