HMR Engineering

Our Directors at HMR Engineering are working Directors and can be found either on-site or in the workshop assisting our crews with their wealth of knowledge and expertise. Here we have Mark Lawson kitted up and on the tools in our workshop carrying out specialized welding on a client project.

Jack commenced his career with HMR Engineering as an apprentice and is now a trade-qualified mechanical fitter based in our Midvale workshop. Here he can be seen measuring radial clearance's as part of a jack shaft rebuild for a regular client in which a new pulley was machined up and new bearings and seals fitted.

HMR can provide more than workshop overhauls and on site services. Earlier in the year we carried out pre-purchase inspections on these water pumps on behalf of one of our valued clients, after which we collected them from the sale yard and refurbished them in our workshop to ensure good running order before delivering them to site.

HMR Engineering is committed to training and upskilling the next generation of subject matter experts. We firmly believe that the future of the industry lies in training tradespeople of the highest quality so that the expertise and specialty workmanship that HMR is known for is passed on for the benefit of our clients for many years to come.

International work is back! Recently we have had a specialized shutdown crew in Laos carrying out mill maintenance at a client site we regularly visited pre-Covid. We have a number of interesting international projects on the horizon which we look forward to sharing throughout the year. HMR Engineering are recruiting, so if you are an experienced tradesperson with Australian recognized qualifications we would love to hear from you!

When approached by one of our valued clients, Capricorn Metals Karlawinda Gold Project , to design and fabricate custom luggage trolleys for their newly constructed onsite airport at the Kalawinda Gold Mine HMR jumped at the challenge. They were designed with turn table front axles for maneuverability, with brakes on the front wheels to the drawbar as a specialized safety feature. They can be road trained together and have vinyl covers making them suitable for all weather conditions as well as for various quantities of cargo. HMR can provide a range of services and solutions outside of standard mechanical and shutdown services.

Ernie Brain is our Workshop & Parts Coordinator, and a long-standing member of the HMR team. He works tirelessly managing the supply of parts for our Australian and international clients, ensuring they are ordered to exact specifications and arrive safely and on time. He also assists with the running of our Workshop daily, providing organizational support as well as technical advice and assistance gathered during his tradesman years as a boilermaker. In his downtime, Ernie loves to travel with his wife in their caravan and run amok with his grand kids on a daily basis. Ernie is a wealth of knowledge and experience, always with a kind word and a cheeky laugh, and is a highly valued member of our team.

One of HMR's sponsorship projects is this Ford Falcon speedway car belonging to one of our employees. In late 2021 HMR provided panel beating and painting as well as mechanical works, and the car has since been raced in the Streets Stocks division at Manjimup Speedway and other race tracks. This is one of the ways we support and give back to our valued employees who give so much to us.

To streamline our Site Services division, HMR recently placed a fully equipped tooling container at one of our longstanding client sites. HMR custom fitted and fabricated the internal frame which was specifically designed to hold maximum shutdown tooling while still maintaining an efficient work space. This is one of many ways HMR strives to meet client needs - for this client we are reducing mobilization and demobilization expenses, as well as reducing the travel time for our personnel. Since the completion of this project we are currently working on four additional tooling containers for other clients.

In January HMR partnered with Australian Mining Review to complete a editorial on the installation of the Ball Mill at the Karlawinda Gold Project for Capricorn Metals LTD. After the successful completion of the Ball Mill installation HMR provided additional support during the commissioning stage and early production stage. HMR have a longstanding relationship with both site and client and continue to conduct shutdown maintenance and other interesting projects at Karlawinda on a regular basis.https://www.australianminingreview.com.au/pdf/AMR-JANUARY-22.pdf