Life at Mipac

Jake Minehan always loved gadgets and building things, so it was no surprise that he decided to study mechatronics engineering at university. Now a graduate engineer at Mipac, working with one of the company’s biggest clients, he says on-the-job learning has been vastly different to sitting in a classroom.

We sat down with him to find out why and to learn more about what’s it like to be a graduate engineer at Mipac.

We sat down with both of them to discover how they ended up here, ask them about Mipac’s company culture and get their thoughts on the future of control systems engineering as a profession.

Senior Control Systems Engineer Mohamed (Mo) Sakr and Lead Control Systems Engineer Yasser Elshohna first met at college in Egypt. A decade and a half later, following diverse career paths which took them across the petrochemicals, oil and gas, mining and construction, water treatment and thermal power industries across two countries, they are colleagues again at Mipac.

We sat down with both of them to discover how they ended up here, ask them about Mipac’s company culture and get their thoughts on the future of control systems engineering as a profession.

Andrew Hislop is a Process Control Engineer with a background in pharmaceuticals and explosives manufacturing. Now working on some of Mipac’s biggest projects on the African continent, we sat down with him to find out more about his career journey, the kinds of projects he’s working on and the things he’s learnt since joining Mipac just under two years ago.

When she was 10, she was already tutoring younger kids in maths – in between trying to sell coconuts on her local beach in Itaituba, Brazil. She’s interned in a bank, taught at a university, and came to Australia on holiday with just one bag, never intending to stay.

We sat down with Mipac Control Systems Engineer Nagila Ribeiro to talk about her career journey to date, including why she chose to study engineering, how she’s dealt with gender discrimination along the way and why she turned down a job offer with a major Australian mining company to join the Mipac team earlier this year.

4 minute read It’s been six months since Process Engineer Andrew Yang made the move from Townsville to Brisbane to join Mipac’s Process Optimisation Team