Mackay
Mackay is the engine room of the Bowen Basin: the mining services and engineering capital of regional Queensland, one of Australia’s biggest sugar regions, and a port and logistics hub moving serious tonnage. It’s a city of workshops, contractors and schedulers.
Those businesses already run on systems — job cards, service sheets, rosters, compliance folders. I turn those systems into software: reliable, documented, and built to survive a night shift. Engineered from the Gold Coast, quoted fixed, demoed weekly.
Software for METS and engineering businesses has to handle the real world: FIFO rosters, wet season delays, equipment that moves between sites, and paperwork a mine audit will actually check. That operational grit is a design input, not an afterthought.
When a workshop’s job system goes down, the workshop goes down. I build on boring, proven technology with monitoring, backups and documentation from day one — the same discipline your clients expect from you on site.
Mackay is a flight, not a drive, from the Gold Coast — so this runs as a remote engagement, and runs tight: a fixed written quote, working software on a private staging link every week, and calls scheduled around your operation, not my office hours.
The Paget precinct is world-class at keeping the Bowen Basin running. Job and workshop management, asset service histories, compliance and certification tracking, and client portals that show mine principals exactly where their equipment is at.
Quoting complex jobs, tracking drawings and revisions, scheduling the floor and invoicing progressively — fabrication workflows that outgrow spreadsheets fast. Purpose-built systems keep the shop floor and the front office on the same page.
One of Australia’s largest cane regions runs on harvest logistics, grower records and mill coordination. Software that captures the season’s data once and keeps every party working from the same numbers.
Crews, utes and equipment moving between sites daily. Rostering, dispatch, fatigue and compliance records, and proof-of-work capture that replaces the paperwork chase at the end of every swing.
Compliance is usually the strongest argument for custom. Off-the-shelf tools make you adapt your records to their fields; a purpose-built system captures exactly what your principals’ audits require, attached to the job or asset it belongs to, exportable the way they want it.
The same as from 10 km, minus the handshake: a discovery call, a fixed written quote, then weekly working-software demos on a private staging link. Everything is documented and lives in your accounts — you’re never dependent on my geography.
No pitch, no jargon — an engineer’s honest read on your problem. If custom software isn’t the answer, you’ll hear that too. Call +61 448 274 028 or email hello@qld.engineering