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Lead Mechanical Designer

Melbourne, Victoria💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead Mechanical Designer responsible for producing project drafting deliverables, developing conceptual designs for materials handling and process plants, and leading a team of designers.

Role type

Lead Mechanical Designer (Plant Layout & Design)

Builds

Mechanical design drawings, plant layouts, and conceptual designs for minerals dry plants and materials handling systems.

Domain

Resources, infrastructure, and industrial processes (Minerals dry plant design)

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Mechanical design and drafting leadership, full plant layout design, minerals dry plant design expertise, fabrication and construction techniques knowledge, MicroStation 2D/3D proficiency, AutoDesk Plant 3D proficiency, project schedule and budget management, Australian and International standards compliance

Preferred skills

Experience managing mechanical design resources, collaboration across business units

Technologies

MicroStation 2D/3D, AutoDesk Plant 3D

Responsibilities

Producing industry standard models and design drawings from engineer calculations, managing mechanical design resources to meet deliverable dates and budgets, ensuring design compliance with standards, producing plant layouts from preliminary data, reviewing vendor drawings, maintaining progress details for supervised drawings

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership

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