Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer

Airswift; Perth; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Airswift is seeking a Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer to join our Perth team. You will drive technical excellence for rotating equipment across multi-projects, ensuring alignment with safety and engineering standards from concept through commissioning.

Strong collaboration with vendors and internal teams is essential to deliver equipment packages on time and within scope. Ideal candidates hold a Mechanical Engineering degree and have extensive experience with pumps, compressors, turbines, and

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering with hands-on experience in rotating equipment.
• Experience delivering projects through concept to commissioning.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and engineering support for rotating equipment across multiple projects.
• Develop, review, and approve engineering deliverables and specifications.
• Lead equipment selection for pumps, compressors, turbines, seals, and packaged systems.
• Liaise with vendors and participate in testing and inspections.
• Manage technical interfaces with contractors and manufacturers.
• Support commissioning and operational readiness activities.
• Assess deviations and design changes while promoting safety.

Skills

Rotating equipment

Mechanical Engineering

Project delivery

Stakeholder management

SAP

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office

Job description

Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer Perth, WA

About the Role

As a key member of the Mechanical Engineering team, you will be responsible for delivering technical excellence across rotating equipment packages while ensuring compliance with engineering standards, safety requirements, and project objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and engineering support for rotating equipment across multiple projects.
• Develop, review, and approve engineering deliverables, specifications, and technical documentation.
• Lead equipment selection activities for pumps, compressors, turbines, mechanical seals, and associated systems.
• Liaise with equipment vendors and participate in testing and inspection activities.
• Manage technical interfaces with contractors, consultants, and manufacturers.
• Support commissioning, start-up, and operational readiness activities.
• Assess technical deviations, non-conformances, and design changes.
• Champion a strong safety culture and drive engineering best practices.

What you’ll need to have

• Degree qualification in Mechanical Engineering.
• Extensive experience working with rotating equipment in heavy industry environments.
• Strong knowledge of pumps, compressors, turbines, mechanical seals, and packaged equipment.
• Experience delivering projects through concept, FEED, detailed design, construction, and commissioning phases.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Working knowledge of SAP and the Microsoft Office suite.

About Airswift

Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to our clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with the unique needs of our clients. With over 1000 employees and 9,000+ contractors operating in over 130 countries, our geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry and the level of experience, exposure and expertise that the organization has is unparalleled.

Only candidates with the right to work in Australia will be considered. (Australia Citizen, PR Holder, or Valid Australia working VISA)