Engineer Project Mechanical

About Us

At Covalent Lithium, we are genuinely passionate about creating a clean energy future and supporting our teams who enable this vision.

Following the commissioning of our mine and concentrator at Mt Holland in 2024, we recently celebrated our first production of battery -grade lithium hydroxide at our Kwinana Refinery. We are now a fully integrated mine-to-refinery operation, supplying high quality lithium hydroxide to global markets and enabling approximately 1 million electric vehicles to go on the road, every year for the next 50 years.

We are proud to foster a culture where people with different skills, experiences and backgrounds are welcomed and set-up for success.

Employee Benefits 

We support, empower and reward our people with a range of benefits:

• Competitive remuneration, and annual incentives for eligible employees
• Access to discounts, recognition and rewards
• Access to flexible work arrangements
• Dedicated wellbeing program support and discounted health insurance
• Equal access to paid parental leave, financial support, return to work and parenting room
• Salary sacrifice options for superannuation and novated leasing

The Role

This role is responsible for leading a range of design and process improvement projects across the mine, concentrator, refinery, and non-process infrastructure.
You will manage projects from initial concept and design through to implementation and execution, ensuring all engineering scopes are delivered safely, on schedule, and within the approved budget.

This is a permanent, full-time position with a hybrid roster, working one week (5:2) at our Kwinana Refinery followed by one week (4:3) at our Mt Holland site.

Key Responsibilities 

•    Ensure full compliance with all health and safety, environmental and regulatory policies associated with the project and ensure a safe working environment at all times.
•    Coordinate and deliver various asset and capital works projects while adhering to HSE, quality, schedule, and budget performance goals across all disciplines.
•    Develop detailed scopes of work, assess tender submissions, and assist with the commercial award of packages.
•    Ensure that project design comply with applicable Company specifications, legislations, and standards.
•    Provide input into technical variations and clarifications raised by contractors.
•    Perform routine monitoring of Contractor progress, including regular site visits / site supervision to determine actual versus planned performance and productivity.
•    coordinate project execution strategies with operations and maintenance teams to execute scope during planned shutdown.
•    Ensure that maximum mitigation measures are deployed, to prevent any unreasonable cost overruns and time delays.
•    Provide timely and accurate project status updates to key stakeholders.
•    Promote and drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and performance.
•    Contribute to budget planning and expenditure tracking.
•    Pre-empt and mitigate risk across the Project as it relates to the works.

A competitive remuneration package commensurate with the role, candidate experience, skills and qualifications will be offered.

Our team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Candidates from all backgrounds and ages are encouraged to apply, including First Nations People, those who identify as LGBTIQ+, people with disabilities and those with neurodiverse, intersectional, or multiple diverse characteristics.

Covalent Lithium is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, with a focus on our employees. We recognise skills, expertise, commitment and living our values of Purpose, Care, Accountability and Collaboration. Our goal is to attract, develop, motivate, reward, and retain the best people in the industry.