Lead E⁣ Designer Location: Perth CBD
Employment: Contract or permanent opportunities considered
Discipline: Electrical, Instrumentation & Controls

The role An opportunity is available for an experienced Lead E⁣ Designer to join a growing engineering team based in the Perth CBD.

The role will suit a Lead designer who is comfortable remaining hands-on with design while also leading and coordinating others. You will manage a small local design team and work with additional offshore and remote design resources across a range of mineral processing projects, including gold, lithium and rare earths.

Responsibilities

- Lead E⁣ design activities across multiple projects and work packages.
- Coordinate and check work produced by local and offshore design teams.
- Provide technical direction and mentoring to designers and drafters.
- Produce and review electrical, instrumentation and controls drawings and documentation.
- Manage drawing registers, deliverables and design priorities.
- Work closely with electrical and controls engineers to develop practical design solutions.
- Review vendor drawings and technical documentation.
- Participate in design reviews and interdisciplinary coordination.
- Support brownfield modifications, site investigations and as-built updates where required.
- Maintain company and client drafting standards across project deliverables.

Experience required We are looking for someone with:

- Strong experience as a Lead or Senior E⁣,



Electrical or Instrumentation Designer.
- Previous experience leading or coordinating a small design team.
- Good understanding of electrical, instrumentation and controls design within mineral processing or resources projects.
- Experience across brownfield projects would be well regarded.
- Robust ability to check drawings and maintain design quality.
- Experience coordinating work across multiple offices or offshore design teams.
- Working knowledge of common electrical design and CAD platforms.
- Ability to work directly with engineers, project personnel and other disciplines.
- Australian mining, minerals processing or industrial project experience.

Relevant technical experience in the available candidate material includes AutoCAD, MicroStation, Bentley Connect/OpenBuildings/BRCM, Navisworks and SPI/SPEL/InTools, along with E&I; design, 3D modelling, brownfield work and design checking.

What’s on offer

- Perth CBD location.
- Lead position with genuine responsibility for design delivery and coordination.
- Mix of hands-on design and team leadership.
- Exposure across gold, lithium, rare earths and other mineral processing projects.
- Opportunity to work within a smaller engineering environment rather than a large EPCM structure.

Apply now if you are an experienced Lead E⁣ Designer looking for a Perth-based role with a mix of technical design, checking and team leadership.

📌 Lead Electrical Designer (Perth)
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