Senior Mechanical Engineer
Lead mechanical engineering across Contact's geothermal fleet, solving real operational problems and improving long-lived generation assets.
- Lead mechanical engineering across Contact Energy's operating geothermal asset
- Broad role across existing and new geothermal plant, resolving issues, outages
- Taupō or Rotorua, strong benefits and visa sponsorship for geothermal speciali
Live geothermal plants do not hand you tidy textbook problems.
A project needs to be engineered and delivered. A component starts misbehaving. An outage requires mechanical expertise. Process upset needs to be understood and resolved before the plant can safely return to service.
Ready to supply expert advice?
This is real engineering.
Contact Energy and Phillip Riley are recruiting a Senior Mechanical Engineer to support Contact’s geothermal generation assets from the Taupō region.
This is not a narrow specialist design role. You will operate as a trusted member of a very experienced engineering team across existing and new geothermal plants, helping operations understand problems, manage risk and implement practical engineering solutions.
Your work will cover plant investigations, asset integrity, pressure equipment, rotating plant, outages, technical specifications, Management of Change and small-to-major improvement projects. You will also act as a discipline lead and subject matter expert, helping shape engineering standards, advising leadership and developing less experienced engineers.
The strongest candidates will bring broad mechanical engineering judgement from geothermal, power generation or another process-heavy environment such as thermal generation, pulp and paper, petrochemicals or large industrial plants. Experience with pressure equipment, process safety, heavy rotating equipment or functional safety will be particularly relevant.
An engineering degree or equivalent is required, with professional registration valued. You will also need to be comfortable working with live operational assets, contractors, commercial decisions and people outside your technical discipline.
The role can be based in Taupō or Rotorua, with regular attendance at Contact’s geothermal sites. The team generally works together onsite or in the office Monday to Wednesday, with flexibility to work remotely on Thursday and Friday where the work allows.
On offer is a competitive salary with room to negotiate for strong candidates.
Contact’s current permanent employee benefits include a 4% KiwiSaver contribution for contributing members, free Southern Cross health insurance, purchased leave, an annual Good to be Home payment, access to the Contact Share plan and biannual payments towards eligible Contact energy and broadband services.
Visa sponsorship may be considered for international candidates who bring directly relevant geothermal experience.
Apply through SEEK or contact Daniel Gallen at Phillip Riley for a confidential discussion.
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