Principal Mechanical Engineer

Job Details

• Brisbane

The Role

Work for a maritime-orientated high-end design house and technical consulting firm driven by a passion for solving complex, real-world problems.

About Us: 

We deliver design, engineering and consulting excellence in a world of ever-increasing change: growing compliance, new global competitors, the pressure to do more with less, ever-faster innovation cycles and less time to exploit market positions or new technologies. 

Our purpose is to help navigate some of the most important and impactful engineering challenges of our time, creating an environment where people with outstanding technical knowledge strive to deliver a safer, more efficient, more effective, and sustainable future. 

With around 1,300+ professionals located in 27 offices in the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe, we draw upon a wide range of experience and expertise to provide high-quality, high-value products and capabilities. 

We are wholly owned by our people. Our Employee Benefit Trust status guarantees our independence, giving our people the freedom to think without limits and create ground-breaking solutions. ownership for employees.

Learn more about your next company - (Welcome to BMT)  

We are currently seeking a Principal Mechanical Engineer is to undertake Engineering and technical tasks of advanced scope and complexity, working with other business leaders to share knowledge and advance the business. The Principal Engineer will act as a work winning consultant, Project Manager and, lead project teams to deliver successful projects and to maintain our brand reputation for superior quality technical work with a high customer focus. 

In this role you will:       

• Perform professional technical work involving considerable independence in approach, and a high degree of originality, ingenuity and judgement. 
• Serve as a technical specialist for the organisation in the application of advanced concepts, principles and methods in an assigned area.
• Act as a work winning champion of new or existing clients including key account management, developing bids and proposals and liaising with BMT Program Managers.
• Give technical advice to management and business units and directs or advises on use of equipment or material.
• Supervise and review the work of Engineers designers/drafters, and technicians.
• Share knowledge and act as mentor within area of expertise or across the business.
• Adhere to, and actively promote, quality, safety and environmental procedures/standards.
• Liaise with clients, potential and current, for the purposes of service delivery, networking and business development.
• Contribute to thought leadership activities through your work and/or by authoring papers and presenting at events, seminars and conferences.
• Possibly act as Project Manager on a range of projects, managing projects to scope and within time, cost and quality requirements.

Specific tasks may include:

o   Review and audit of the design of machinery and associated structures and components.
o   Concept and detailed design of machinery and associated structures and components.
o   Testing, Measurement and Stress analysis of machines, machine components and machine structures, using various techniques including Space Gass, Finite element modelling, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and Discrete Element Modelling (DEM).
o   Failure and fatigue analysis involving machines and structural components.
o   Develop and maintain specialist software including SolidWorks, Ansys and the like.
o   Preparation of reports, manuals, drawings and documentation.
o   Promotion of the capabilities of the company to clients and fellow BMT employees.
o   Perform and lead inspection of machinery including mining and ports related equipment.

Relevant Education, Experience, and Skills: 

• Experience with machinery such as stackers, reclaimers, excavators, minerals processing plant, mobile mining machinery, underground mining, draglines, belt conveyors, rolling stock, ship loaders, port machinery, cranes etc.
• A thorough knowledge of both local and international governing design codes for the above equipment such as AS4324.1, AS1418, ISO 5049 & FEMII.
• Practical on-site knowledge of maintenance & operational issues.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other relevant area of study.
• Minimum 15 years’ experience post-graduation.
• Relevant registration with recognised engineering/environmental body, preferably with CPEng, RPEQ & RPEV (or ability to obtain).
• Demonstrated experience in sales and business development. 
• Have an existing customer network or previous experience in developing key customer relationships.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organisation skills with strong attention to detail.
• Demonstrates initiative and takes a proactive approach to tasks.
• Client focused and commercially aware.
• Results orientated.
• Experience working within a multi-site organisation.
• Experience working within the engineering or resources sector.

Our Benefits –

Our employee benefits are designed to ensure you have the resources you need to thrive. We value your contribution by offering the following benefits –

• Competitive salary offering
• A performance-related bonus scheme based on personal, and company performance.
• Learning and Development opportunities to support you in achieving your business and personal objectives and releasing your full potential

Where possible, our benefits are globally harmonised to ensure equality and consistency across our collaborative teams; we also tailor benefits to ensure they remain competitive with the local geographies in which we operate.

Notice to Recruitment Agency & Related Services - Please note BMT receive job applications exclusively via our ATS system only. BMT do not warrant or agree to any unsolicited CVs submitted via any contact method including physical hard copies left with any employee at BMT or within our operational teams. We will not progress CVs shared on a speculative basis by email, and you accept our right to pursue such candidates with no obligation to third-party terms and conditions or liability to a fee.