Australian engineering drives global growth strategy to $250m+
Fast-growing manufacturer of premium products for mining industry
Pathway into Engineering Manager role + beyond.
Suit independent first-principles thinker looking for opportunity to build high-performing Product Design & Engineering team.
Performance-focused culture.
The Opportunity
This is a new role created due to company growth.
You will lead our small Product Design & Engineering team and be responsible for developing product stack and engineering capability required to support our company's growth.
Our goal is to build world-leading company in slurry transfer technology.
* Autonomy: Build the team, engineering capability, and product stack.
* Global Scope: Global growth strategy supported by Australian engineering.
* Product Development: Exciting new product development roadmap.
* Digital Transformation: Create 100% digital 'design-to-manufacture' tech stack.
* Centre of Excellence: Build company's product engineering 'centre of excellence'.
* Fast-Growing Company: Startup 10 years ago, targeting $200-250m in 2-3 years.
* Strong Financials: Able to internally fund product development, technology development, manufacturing expansion, team expansion, company growth strategy.
* Entrepreneurial Culture: Founder-led business that is fast-moving and ambitious.
The Role
You will lead our small Product Design & Engineering team.
You will build the Engineering capability to support our growth into world's leading company in slurry transfer technology over next 10 years.
You will be responsible for developing people, processes, and systems to make our Product Design & Engineering capability key competitive advantage.
This is high-growth environment with resources to fund team and invest in product development and digital systems required to build global original equipment manufacturer (OEM).
* Lead & manage small team.
* Become technical authority.
* Product design & engineering.
* Pre-production engineering (incl DFMA).
* New product development (incl R&D).
* Product quality engineering.
* Engineering processes, systems & standards.
The Company
Beaver Process Equipment is privately owned, entrepreneurial company led by Josh Beaver.
It specialises in design and manufacture of slurry transfer technology for mining industry.
It currently has team of 110 and is growing at rate of 30-40 per year.
It has two facilities: Perth (approx.4200m2 office/workshop) and Brisbane (approx.5100m2 office/workshop, plus another 3000-5000m2 facility in 2025).
The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for future Engineering Leader who wants autonomy to develop product engineering capability required to be best in world in our specialist area.
This will require 'startup mindset' with strong drive to take initiative and get things done ('ask forgiveness, not permission').
You will be independent, assertive, competitive, and self-confident.
You will like solving challenging engineering problems and demand high standards from yourself and your team.
You will be capable of calculated risk taking, with commercial overlay on your engineering mind, and strong desire to win.
You will embrace learning new things and like using technology to do things better/faster/cheaper.
You will take ownership of team with strong accountability for delivering required results.
You will be strong fit with our Core Values: https://www.beaverprocess.com.au/careers/.
Prior product or industry experience is not required.
We are looking for A-player who wants opportunity to build high-performing Product Design & Engineering team.