Senior Mechanical and Piping Engineer

As an Australian owned engineering company specialising in the energy sector, Momentum has shown resilience and adaptability since our founding in 2005. Our workplace is different from many others, offering cross-functional opportunities and flexibility not afforded by larger organisations. We work hard to achieve outcomes for our customers that make us a preferred partner, and we celebrate our achievements.  

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are seeking a Senior Mechanical and Piping Engineer to join our dynamic team in Perth, Western Australia. This position plays a critical role in delivering high-quality engineering work, including calculations, design reviews, and documentation. They support project planning, liaise with clients and suppliers, and contribute to progress tracking and procedural improvements. The role ensures engineering outputs meet required standards for safety, quality, schedule, and budget within a collaborative project environment.  

You will work on client projects critical to current and future energy needs including:

• Brownfield modifications of offshore assets to ensure future reliable operation
• Renewable hydrogen project development
• Compression stations to ensure Australian energy grid resilience
• LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) developments to boost energy security

Ours is a fun, flexible working environment with a fully co-located team, where you will receive competitive benefits including the opportunity to work from home two days per week.

ABOUT YOU

• Safety Focus: Prioritizes safety in design and execution, adhering to relevant standards and procedures and actively contributes to risk assessments and HAZOP/HAZID reviews.
• Stakeholder Management: ability to liaise with clients and suppliers.
• Communication: Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills for working with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.
• Decision-Making: Applies sound engineering judgement in balancing safety, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Attention to Detail: Maintains accuracy and consistency in design work, documentation, and reporting. Commitment to accuracy, compliance, and technical integrity with authority to sign off on deliverables.
• Project Delivery: Manages tasks efficiently and contributes to meeting project milestones and budgets.
• Adaptability: Responds positively to changing project requirements and environments, including fieldwork.
• Problem Solving: Capable of identifying issues and developing practical, safe, and cost-effective solutions.
• Technical Literacy: conversant across engineering disciplines; can challenge, integrate and make informed decisions.
• Continuous Improvement: embeds lessons learned and enhances procedures/templates in line with Momentum’s Quality Management System.
• Teamwork: Works collaboratively and respectfully within diverse teams to achieve shared goals.
• Values Alignment: you align with and consistently demonstrates Momentum’s values in behaviours and decisions — Expertise, Integrity, Drive, Collaboration, Relationships.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Prepare, check and sign off technical documentation, including design calculations, datasheets, equipment specifications, and material requisitions.
• Prepare and review Material Take-Offs (MTOs),Technical Bid Evaluations (TBEs), and technical specifications.
• Engineering input, checking and sign off for design deliverables (documents and drawings)
• Ensure designs comply with relevant codes, standards, and project requirements (ASME B31.3, ASME VIII, API, ISO, etc.).
• Assist Lead Engineer in completing budget and schedule estimates as well as reports
• Provide guidance, technical direction and supervision for Junior Engineers
• Assist Lead Engineer to update progress percentage, forecast manhours and forecast completion dates for all the deliverables that you are managing.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of company procedures for discipline engineering.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering (Mechanical) with a minimum of 8 years post graduate Mechanical Engineering discipline work experience.
• Minimum 6-10 years’ experience working with Tier 1 Oil and Gas operations with in-depth knowledge of piping engineering, design, and stress analysis in oil & gas projects (significant experience in stress analysis and checking designs for stress critical systems is highly preferable).
• Demonstrated knowledge of Engineering systems and effective application of engineering principles  
• Strong Microsoft Office Application Tools (Visio, word, advanced Excel preferred)
• Advanced user of CAESAR II and other engineering tools for stress and flexibility analysis.
• Strong understanding of international codes and standards (ASME B31.3, ASME VIII, API, ISO).
• Competent in using Navisworks freedom

Why Choose Momentum Engineering?

• We live by our values – Expertise, Integrity, Drive, Collaboration and Relationships
• We are expanding beyond traditional energy assets into renewables, particularly hydrogen
• We offer a fun, diverse and inclusive culture, with regular social events, sponsored wellness events and flexible working conditions

Please include a covering letter with your application

Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

No recruitment agencies please.