Job Summary: Develop and coordinate mechanical engineering solutions for mining and lithium projects, providing technical leadership and ensuring application of sound criteria and standards. Key Highlights: 1. Lead mechanical engineering for mining and lithium projects. 2. Develop and review key mechanical deliverables. 3. Promote innovation and sustainability in projects. **Building on our past. Ready for the future** Worley is a global professional services company of experts in energy, chemicals, and natural resources, headquartered in Australia. Right now, we are bridging two worlds as we accelerate the transition to more sustainable energy sources while helping our clients supply the energy, chemicals, and resources society needs today. We support our clients throughout project development and create value across the life cycle of their asset portfolios. We solve complex problems by delivering integrated, data-driven solutions—from early-stage consulting and engineering through to installation and commissioning, and into final stages of decommissioning and remediation. Join us and help drive innovation and sustainability in our projects. **Job Objective** Develop and coordinate mechanical engineering solutions for mining and lithium projects, applying advanced engineering knowledge, industry regulations, and standards. Responsible for providing technical leadership in preparing and reviewing mechanical deliverables, ensuring proposed solutions are safe, operable, maintainable, constructible, and aligned with client requirements, quality, schedule, and budget. Leadership capability to manage small project teams or working groups. **Responsibilities** * Lead mechanical engineering development for complex systems and equipment in mining and lithium projects, ensuring application of sound technical criteria, corporate standards, and client requirements across all project phases. * Provide technical leadership in developing mechanical engineering packages and make engineering decisions within your scope of responsibility, ensuring achievement of project technical objectives. * Develop discipline-specific mechanical documents, such as calculation memos, design criteria, technical specifications, data sheets, lists, etc. * Develop technical requisitions and evaluate bids for mechanical equipment in mining and lithium projects. * Review and manage supplier technical information, participating in technical evaluation, inspection, testing, and validation of mechanical equipment per project requirements. * Maintain a focus on technical integrity and safety in design, applied to all projects in which you participate. * Technically review and approve mechanical engineering deliverables (drawings and documents), verifying compliance with codes, specifications, design criteria, safety, constructability, and maintainability. * Coordinate preparation of schematics, general arrangements, and drawings based on instructions and calculation memos, with full mastery of applicable design codes and procedures. * Monitor and manage progress of your activities and those of resources under your coordination, promptly identifying deviations that may affect project performance indicators (PF and SPI) and initiating corrective actions when required. * Participate in preparation of technical proposals, man-hour estimates, and definition of engineering scopes for studies and projects. * Identify, assess, and communicate technical risks, scope deviations, and potential impacts on cost, schedule, or quality, proposing timely mitigation measures. * Coordinate technical interfaces with Process, Piping, Civil, Structural, Electrical, and Instrumentation disciplines. * Review and validate material lists, quantities, and take-offs associated with the mechanical discipline. * Coordinate and provide technical guidance to designers and professionals within the mechanical discipline. * Coordinate quality assurance, resolution of outstanding items, and modifications to already-issued drawings. * Focus your work on delivering solutions and completing assigned tasks. * Participate in site visits to conduct technical data surveys at our clients’ operations. Good health compatible with access to high-altitude mining sites is required. * Participate in resident engineering services, reviewing detailed engineering for construction, responding to technical queries (RFI/SDI), and providing engineering support during on-site construction and installation activities. **What You’ll Bring** **Technical Consulting Experience** Eight or more years of relevant experience in mechanical engineering development for mining projects, with demonstrable involvement in lithium projects, showing strong technical knowledge, professional autonomy, and ability to lead engineering activities in multidisciplinary environments. **Knowledge:** · Demonstrable experience with engineering consulting firms on mining (copper, iron, gold, silver, etc.) and lithium projects, directly involved in process facility design, chemical plants, Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE), lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, evaporation, purification, precipitation, drying, reagent handling, or auxiliary facilities. Mandatory requirement. · Experience in engineering development across pre-feasibility, feasibility, basic engineering, and detailed engineering phases. · Field experience conducting surveys, commissioning, or start-up. · Experience participating in design reviews, model reviews, constructability, maintainability, and design risk analyses. · Experience coordinating multidisciplinarily with Process, Piping, Civil, Structural, Electrical, Instrumentation, Architecture, and Construction. · Knowledge of change management methodologies, identification of technical risks, and engineering quality control. · Knowledge of applicable codes, standards, and regulations for mechanical design of industrial and mining facilities. · Experience in technical specification, evaluation, and selection of mechanical equipment such as pumps, tanks, agitators, filters, conveyor belts, material handling systems, process equipment, and auxiliary systems. · Knowledge of design criteria focused on safety, operability, maintainability, constructability, and asset integrity. · Advanced proficiency in engineering software such as MatchCad, MS Office, Sidewinder, Inventor, AutoCAD, or equivalent platforms. · Knowledge of materials handling. · Desirable: HVAC knowledge. · Desirable: Fluid dynamics and DEM simulation knowledge. · Knowledge of design modeling and review tools such as AVEVA E3D, SmartPlant 3D, Navisworks, or equivalent platforms. **Education** **Academic Qualification:** Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field. **Desirable:** Intermediate English proficiency. **Location and Work Modality:** **Work Base / Location:** Santiago. **Work Modality:** Hybrid, with office attendance (2 days per week) at Worley’s Santiago office or as required by the project. If you require any **accessibility accommodation**, please specify it clearly in your application. **Moving Forward Together** We want our people motivated and equipped to drive sustainable impact. Therefore, we focus on a values-inspired culture that unleashes brilliance through belonging, connection, and innovation. We are building a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace. We create a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and is heard. And we don’t just talk about it—we’re doing it. We’re reskilling our people, leveraging transferable competencies, and supporting our workforce’s transition to become experts in today’s low-carbon energy infrastructure and technology. Whatever your ambition, there’s a path for you here—and no barriers to the potential success of your career. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of sustainable change.
Sofía Muñoz
MyJob · HR
Sofía Muñoz
MyJob · HR
