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You will take engineering ownership from tender and concept, through detailed engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction support, to commissioning, performance testing and final handover. You will report to the Director: Group Technical & Business Development and Group CEO and oversee the Plant Project Engineers, Process Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, E&I resources and Draughting\\/Design staff. Key responsibilities Lead multidisciplinary engineering (process, mechanical, piping, structural\\/civil, E&I and draughting) on major plant projects Set up the engineering execution plan, design basis, deliverables register, schedule and resource plan Review and approve calculations, specifications, datasheets, drawings, layouts, P&IDs and equipment selections Lead design, constructability and gate reviews, design freezes and technical approvals Control scope changes, deviations, concessions, RFIs, TQs, NCRs and vendor documentation Manage engineering budgets, planned hours and resource loading across concurrent projects Support commissioning, performance testing, punch-list close-out, as-builts and technical handover Act as senior technical interface with clients, consultants, suppliers, site teams and internal departments Drive design standardisation, lessons learned, risk management and ISO 9001 \\/ SHERQ compliance Present designs, costs and progress to EXCO and clients; manage the testing facility Coach, develop and set KPIs for the engineering team Minimum requirements BEng \\/ BSc Mechanical Engineering Registered International Professional Engineer with ECSA (Int PE) 10+ years' engineering experience in mineral processing, mining or heavy industrial plant projects 5+ years delivering multidisciplinary plant or EPC\\/EPCM-type projects 3+ years in an engineering leadership or management role Proven competency in MS Office (incl. MS Project) and Inventor, Solid Edge and\\/or SolidWorks Advantageous Additional degree in Process, Chemical or Metallurgical Engineering Experience across the full cycle: design, procurement, fabrication\\/construction, commissioning and handover Finite Element Analysis and\\/or MATLAB The right person will be Strong estimating and costing of engineering hours Excellent report writing and communication Decisive, detail-oriented and deadline-driven Health and safety conscious Willing to support site commissioning","description_format":"text","description_chars":2896,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-06T18:03:15Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":48,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.535,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":10,"expected_fill_days":28,"reasons":["seen:10","agency","velocity","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/recruitpro-solutions-plant-engineering-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/recruitpro-solutions-plant-engineering-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-08T23:47:08Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":49450,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-09T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4497489},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4497489"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Frecruitpro-solutions-plant-engineering-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Frecruitpro-solutions-plant-engineering-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Frecruitpro-solutions-plant-engineering-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/recruitpro-solutions-plant-engineering-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Frecruitpro-solutions-plant-engineering-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3881426}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":4497489,"detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3881426},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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