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The Opportunity

This is a people leadership role that sits at the intersection of engineering excellence, project delivery discipline, and commercial rigour. As Engineering Manager, you will hold end-to-end accountability for engineering governance, project execution, and contract management across the Fabrication business unit — reporting directly to the General Manager.

This is a genuinely broad role. You will lead a team of approximately five direct reports across mechanical, electrical, and design engineering disciplines, while driving delivery standards, customer outcomes, and quality systems across a diverse, engineered-to-order portfolio. If you are a hands-on engineering leader who is equally comfortable on the workshop floor and in a commercial negotiation, this role was built for you.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• People Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of approximately five engineers. Drive coaching, clear performance expectations, and effective resource allocation across concurrent projects.

• Workshop Collaboration: Partner with workshop leaders to optimise designs for build efficiency and quality. Improve handover and communication routines between design, procurement, workshop, and commissioning teams.

• Engineering Governance: Own engineering standards, documentation discipline, and technical governance across the team — ensuring design outputs meet customer specifications, statutory codes, and quality expectations with minimal rework.

• • Project Delivery: Lead concurrent projects from contract award through to handover, on time, within budget, and to specification. Oversee planning, scheduling, and cross-functional coordination across engineering, workshop, procurement, and site teams.

• Contract & Commercial Management: Manage contractual obligations from award to close-out. Lead variation management and dispute resolution, protect margin, and ensure invoicing and milestone discipline across the portfolio.

• Quality Assurance: Ensure ISO 9001 compliance. Capture lessons learned and embed improvements into standards and processes to reduce rework and lift repeatability.

• Customer Engagement: Build and maintain strong customer relationships. Represent engineering and delivery functions credibly in technical and commercial discussions — domestically and internationally as required.

• Safety Leadership: Champion health, safety, and wellbeing across all engineering and project delivery activities. Embed safety principles into design, workshop execution, and on-site commissioning.

What We’re Looking For

Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Mechatronics, or similar); electrical/automation exposure advantageous

• Minimum 5+ years relevant design experience in fabrication or manufacturing, plus 5+ years in a people leadership or management role

• Proven track record delivering complex, engineered-to-order projects from award through to handover

• Strong commercial acumen — contract negotiation, variation management, dispute resolution, and margin protection

• ISO 9001 / quality management system experience

• CPENZ registration preferred — candidates who are eligible and working towards registration are also encouraged to apply

• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as required

Attributes & Style

• Hands-on, visible leader who builds trust and accountability through presence and clear standards

• Strong technical credibility — able to influence engineering direction and challenge assumptions constructively

• Rigorous delivery mindset: disciplined planning, scheduling, and governance habits

• Effective communicator across all levels — workshop floor through to customers and senior leadership

• Continuous improvement orientation — standardisation focus that lifts repeatability and reduces rework

• Calm under pressure in dynamic, multi-project environments; able to balance competing technical and commercial priorities

MHM Group is seeking an experienced and forward‑thinking Group Safety & Quality Manager to champion a culture of safety, quality, and operational excellence across our growing organisation. This is a pivotal role responsible for shaping, implementing, and continuously improving the systems that keep our people safe, our operations compliant, and our customers confident in the quality of our work.

Reporting directly to the COO, you will lead the development and execution of the Group’s Safety and Quality strategy, ensuring alignment with legislative requirements and recognised standards including HSWA 2015, ISO 45001, ISO 9001, and ISO 14001 (where applicable).

You will work closely with senior leaders, site managers, and frontline teams to embed consistent safety practices and quality standards across all operations. Your work will directly influence incident prevention, operational discipline, and continuous improvement across the Group.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of health, safety, and quality management systems.
• Drive a strong safety culture, conduct regular audits, and implement risk mitigation strategies to ensure compliance with all relevant standards (OSHA, ISO 45001, ISO 9001, etc.).
• Investigate workplace incidents and near-misses, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Develop and deliver safety and quality training programs for employees at all levels.
• Monitor and report on safety, quality, and environmental performance to ensure compliance and continuous improvement.

About You:

• Experience in a senior health & safety, quality, or compliance role within a manufacturing, industrial, or operational environment.
• Knowledge of HSWA 2015, ISO 45001 (Health & Safety), ISO 9001 (Quality), and ISO 14001 (Environmental) standards, desirable.
• Proven track record in leading safety culture transformation, risk management, and quality assurance initiatives.
• Experience in conducting incident investigations (e.g., ICAM, Root Cause Analysis, or similar methodologies) and implementing corrective actions.
• Previous experience in training, coaching, and engaging teams on safety and quality best practices.
• Expertise in risk assessment, hazard identification, and control implementation.
• Strong understanding of auditing, compliance, and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Ability to analyse safety and quality performance data to drive continuous improvement.
• Familiarity with Lean, Six Sigma, or other process improvement methodologies is desirable.
• Proficiency in safety management systems (SMS), quality management systems (QMS), and environmental management systems (EMS).
• Competency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), incident reporting systems, and data analysis tools.

We Can Offer:

• A competitive remuneration
• A great team environment
• The opportunity to be part of a very progressive, growing and successful organisation

MHM Automation has 5 product centres of excellence across Australia and New Zealand. Despite our diversity and business breadth we are small enough for each person to make a difference through our values – we are bold, we are aspirational, we are in it together, we stand by it.

If this sounds just what you have been looking for, please apply on-line.