Engineer, Piping
Workplace Type: Onsite
About Newmont
At Newmont, we’re not just a world-leading gold and metals producer – we’re a team united by our commitment to shaping a more inclusive, sustainable, and responsible mining industry. Joining us means becoming part of a global, diverse workforce where everyone is valued, empowered, and encouraged to grow. Our people are the heart of our success, bringing exceptional skill, integrity, and dedication to everything we do as an organization and we’re dedicated to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive.
About Lihir
Our Lihir Operation, located on the beautiful island of Niolam, approximately 800km north of Papua New Guinea's capital, Port Moresby, is one of the world’s largest gold mines. Set within a geothermically active, extinct volcanic crater, Lihir operates an open-pit mine producing refractory ore, which undergoes pressure oxidation and conventional leaching to recover gold. Our workforce includes both residential and commute rosters, creating a diverse and dynamic team. Lihir offers a range of recreational facilities, including a gym, sports club, restaurant, bar, swimming pool, tennis and squash courts, and a 9-hole golf course. For those who enjoy the outdoors, the Lihir fishing and boating clubs provide access to pristine waters and beaches, while our onsite deli and café serve fresh local and imported produce, barista-made coffee, and freshly baked goods.
We are proud to work closely with the local Lihirian community and value its vibrant culture. Through initiatives like our School to Mine program, we offer meaningful employment, training, and development opportunities for Lihirian men and women, as well as scholarships and vocational apprenticeships. We also partner with the New Ireland Province to ensure economic benefits flow directly to the community, strengthening our commitment to sustainable development and positive local impact.
Purpose
An Engineer Piping is required to improve reliability , integrity and minimize the downtime of process piping, tanks, fixed cranes and pressure vessels in the Lihir Gold Mine and Processing Plant, by applying industry best practice, knowledge of the relevant standards and codes, and practical site-based experience.
Essential Duties
- Maintaining the defects register and temporary repair registers.
- Reviewing the statutory inspection reports received for pressure vessels, Fixed Cranes, PSVs, Piping and tanks
- Review the defects and develop scopes that are required to rectify the repair
- Management of the statutory inspection strategies for Pressure vessels, PSVs, Piping, Tanks and Fixed Cranes
- Managing the ongoing site pipe inspection campaign
- Specifying the piping repairs required as noted by the inspection
- Immediate temporary repairs and permanent repairs / pipe spool replacement
- Scoping the work and performing Quality Assurance of the completed wor
- Specifying the repairs required to rectify defects as noted by the inspections for
- Tanks (API 653 compliant
- Pressure Vessels (AS1210 & ASME VIII
- Repair of Pressure Equipment and Piping (PCC-2
- Generation of fitness for service assessments for non-compliant equipment (as per AS3788 & API579
- Generation of risk assessments related to equipment that has known integrity issue
- Perform root cause analysis and failure investigation on systems and equipment, as required
Training & Experience
- AS3788 Pressure equipment – In-service Inspection
- API570 Piping Inspection code
- ASME B31.3 Process Piping
- AS4041 Pressure Piping
- API 510 Pressure Vessel Inspection code
- API 653 Tanks - Inspection, repair, alteration, and reconstruction
- AS1210 Pressure Vessels
- ASME VIII Pressure Vessel (fired & unfired) design, fabrication, testing, inspection, and certification
- API 580 / 581 Risk Based Inspection
- API 579 / ASME Fitness for Service (FFS)
- API RP 571 Damage Mechanisms
- AS4037 Pressure Equipment Examination and testing
- SAP Maintenance Module
- Microsoft office suite (Excel advanced user preferred)
- AS2550.1 General Requirements of Cranes
- AS2550.3 Bridge, Gantry, Jib and monorail cranes
- Able to be an effective team leader (where applicable) by establishing and maintaining a positive and productive work environment through listening, dealing with different points of view, giving and receiving feedback.
Working Conditions
At Newmont, our commitment to diversity and inclusion ensures that everyone can work to their full potential, free from discrimination, while respecting the cultures, religions, and governance of the regions in which we operate. Guided by our values of Safety, Integrity, Sustainability, Responsibility, and Inclusion, our Lihir team – 90% of which are Papua New Guinean – is dedicated to creating a culturally rich and supportive environment where meaningful, long-term connections can be formed within the industry.
We believe in the strength of our people and the positive impact we can create together. Newmont employees are rewarded with a competitive salary, flexible packaging options, and programs that recognize those who go above and beyond. We know no candidate meets every qualification listed, so if you share our values and feel you can make a meaningful contribution, we encourage you to apply – we’d love to hear from you!
