On a major project, the wrong hire doesn’t just cost a salary. It costs the schedule.
Specialist engineering and infrastructure recruitment — design, EPCM, project controls and contracts talent for the projects that have to be delivered on time and on budget, across Australia, PNG and the Pacific.
Our expertise in Engineering & Infrastructure
Since 2007 we’ve recruited for Australia’s engineering consultancies, contractors and client-side teams — across civil, structural, mechanical and electrical disciplines, and the major mining and infrastructure projects that depend on them. Whether you’re a design consultancy, an EPCM contractor or an asset owner, we know how large projects are resourced and where the hard-to-find people are.
That project-delivery understanding is exactly what we now bring to PNG, where AIFFP-financed roads, ports and energy projects are expanding the country’s infrastructure. Australian project standards, applied in the Pacific — by one team that works across both markets.
Project recruitment & EPCM
We recruit the whole project, not just the engineers.
Projects don’t run on design alone. We recruit across the full EPCM spectrum — engineering, procurement and construction management — and the project-delivery functions that keep a build on track:
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Project management
Project directors, project & package managers, project engineers
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Project controls
Planning & scheduling, cost control, estimating, document control
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Contracts & procurement
Contracts administration, procurement and supply chain
Get these right and the schedule holds. Get them wrong and the best design in the world still slips.
Across the project lifecycle
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Concept & feasibility
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FEED
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Detailed design
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Construction
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Commissioning & handover
We resource every phase — from the front-end engineers who shape the concept to the commissioning teams who hand it over.
Built on major-project delivery
We’ve spent nearly two decades placing engineers and project professionals on Australia’s largest mining and infrastructure projects — for renowned consultancies and contractors who only partner with recruiters who understand delivery pressure. That experience travels. When a PNG infrastructure program needs the same calibre of project talent, we already know what “good” looks like, and how to mobilise it.
What We Recruit
We recruit at every stage of a resources project — not just the easy ones.
Civil
Exploration & feasibility
Structural
Construction & commissioning
Mechanical
Operations & maintenance
Electrical
Closure & rehabilitation
Instrumentation & control (I&C) / automation
Process & chemical
Geotechnical
Environmental & sustainability
Water & utilities
Design & drafting (CAD, 12D)
Project & delivery functions
Project management & project engineering
Project controls
planning & scheduling, cost control, estimating, document control
Contracts & procurement
Construction & commissioning
From our 2026/27 PNG Salary Guide & Workforce Intelligence Report
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Australia’s AIFFP-financed PNG Ports program — a K1.6 billion investment upgrading Lae, Kimbe, Kavieng, Daru and Oro Bay — is moving into construction, driving demand for engineers, project managers and procurement specialists beyond Port Moresby.
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Experienced project and engineering talent remains in short supply across both markets, with the senior generation approaching retirement.
How you work with us
Permanent recruitment
For the roles you’re building your business or delivery team on, with McQuaig profiling for senior appointments.
Contract & on-hire
Scale project teams up and down with the program; contractors onboarded and payroll-ready in hours, not days.
Executive search
Discreet, market-mapped search for project directors and engineering leadership.
Managed workforce
From a single specialist to a full multidiscipline project team.
Who we work with
Engineering consultancies, contractors and client-side teams across Australia and New Zealand, and AIFFP-financed infrastructure programs across PNG — energy, maritime, roads and ports.
A remote-location GM for a provincial hydro project
A global search for a hydro-experienced General Manager prepared to lead from a remote PNG location — drawing on our database and international network across Australia, the Pacific and beyond.
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50–60 placements a year
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Advanced to offer stage
Built for complex, remote, high-stakes projects.
Engineering and infrastructure talent placed where the work is hardest, including remote PNG sites and donor-funded builds.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. We place local and international talent across technical, trades and leadership roles, and we help you meet localisation and national-content targets at the same time.
Resourcing a project that has to land on time? Let’s talk.
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